After creating a couple of wedding invitations featuring this squirrelly image, we decided to use it on birthday and thank-you cards (printed on our favorite paper: 88# natural white Strathmore bristol cover). And so our line expands again, a little at a time. More importantly, we’re thrilled to release a refreshed catalog for our wholesale line! This 16-pager includes photographs of all greeting cards, call-me cards and stationery sets that we’re currently offering (including over 2 dozen new greeting cards released in 2009). Wholesalers old and new are encouraged to visit the catalog page to download the the catalog (split into three big PDF files) and the wholesale price list and take a look at our current lineup; we think you’ll be impressed! Though sales have been sluggish for us (and, uh, everyone else in the world?), we’ve noticed that stores who are ordering from us are also re-ordering, on a pretty regular basis! If you’re just a fan of our products (rather than a buyer for a store), you are also welcome to download our catalog. As always, we encourage shoppers to check with their local card and gift shops, we love to send business to the stores who have been supporting us for years. But if you can’t find Lunalux cards in a store near you, we’re happy to sell you some paper goodies. Just use this contact form to e-mail us a request for our retail order form.

June brings to mind two big holidays: Father’s Day and graduation season. So if you’re looking to honor the dad or the grad in your life with a little hand-written love, Lunalux has just the cards for you. Our studio store is stocked with a great selection of designs from some of our favorite card lines, including Hello Lucky, La Familia Green, Cribnotes, Spark, and Egg Press. On the grad side, we’re most pleased to introduce the newest addition to our wholesale line. Everyone’s favorite heavy metal hand gesture is paired with the triumphant declaration: “School’s out for summer! School’s out forever!” Letterpress-printed with black and purple inks on bright-white wove-finish Strathmore cover, paired with a purple envelope. This card rocks! But if you prefer a more sentimental approach to such milestones, this Kierkegaard card might be more your speed. We first printed this a few years ago as a New Year mailing to our loyal customers, but we’ve since come to love it as an encouraging bit of wisdom to someone who’s facing big life decisions (hello, graduates!). It’s letterpress-printed in black, cornflower blue and mermaid green on hefty suede-like ecru card stock. For the father figures in your life, we also have a handsome assortment of cards to consider. Our faves are pictures below: the newest Fathers Day card from Lunalux featuring a vintage border, and the #1 Dad mug design from Cribnotes up in Canada (needle nose pliers not included). All these cards and more are available now at the Lunalux studio store – visit our store page for hours, directions, etc.

In the past few months, we have created lots of new letterpress-printed greeting cards for our wholesale line. Last week we sent samples to our sales reps; now we want wholesale buyers new and old to see them too! We’ve added yet another PDF to our catalog page, click here to download that document (cleverly titled lunaluxnew09) and check out all our new additions. The 22 new cards — a monumental release by Lunalux standards — includes an addition to the very popular Chickenboy series. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, we have a tu-tu-clad chickenboy-ballerina, mid-grand jeté, declaring “I love you this much!” You’ll find other love-themed cards that are great for V-Day, plus new designs for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and graduation, some holiday cards (plan ahead for Christmas ’09!) and plenty of charming everyday. As soon as we get these new cards properly promoted, we’ll start work on a new full catalog, which we hope to have ready in the next month or two. We hope you like our new cards, and we hope you’ll call us if you have any questions! As always, we encourage wholesalers to keep an eye on our blog, we often introduce our new designs there before we have a chance to add them to our catalog.

Mind your manners and be sure to send proper thank-you notes for any and all holiday gifts you received! At a loss for words? Check out the in-depth thank-you note primer we published last January. Need some thank-you notes? Consider this new design we just added to our wholesale line. “Thanks a Million” is letterpress-printed in gold ink, surrounded by an intricate vintage frame in dark green, on thick natural white wove-finish bristol cover. It looks so money, literally and figuratively. “Thanks a Million” is available now at the Lunalux store; individual cards cost $4, boxes of 6 cards go for $14. This card is one one of six new designs that we just finished printing last week, all featuring vintage decorative frames – we should have more images of these new cards on our site soon, but if you can’t wait that long, check the Lunalux Facebook page for a sneak peek.

This is one of my favorite cards we ever created here at Lunalux. It’s a few years old, but it’s still really close to my heart. I wrote that text, don’t steal it, OK? Happy New Year! See you in 2009.