Now in stock: Holiday cards
It can be hard to stock holiday cards – they have a very brief shelf life, and it’s hard to anticipate demand. But we’re sure we hit this category out of the park this year, with our in-house collection of cards plus a few additional designs from a. favorite design, Spark, Rifle Paper Co. and Paper Source. A few designs flew off the shelves as soon as we introduced them into the shop. But we still have a lot of great options available. And we know there are still lots of folks out there thinking abut a December 2010 mail push. So what are you waiting for? Our favorite Lunalux card is the three-color beauty pictured to the left (click on the image for a larger view), featuring text by Henry David Thoreau. Apartment Therapy included the original run of this card (same design. printed in different colors) in their round-up of the Top 10 letterpress cards of 2010 (click here to view their full list) and this holiday version has been a big hit too. We’re also in love with the Henry Happy New Year card from Spark, with the dachshund dressed in festive finery; and the Naughty List note from Santa, from Paper Source. All of these cards are available for your purchasing pleasure in the Luanlux studio store. And all of the Lunalux holiday cards are available for on-line purchase at our Felt & Wire shop.
Spark added to card collection
We recently received our first shipments of greeting cards from a couple of newish letterpress stationers: Spark and Old Tom Foolery. We’re particularly excited to have Spark’s Henry cards in the house, featuring adorable wiener dog illustrations. Henry wishes you happy birthday! Girl Henry marries Boy Henry! Henry has a cone on his head and a bandaid on his butt! All super cute. They’re perfectly printed (and we mean that – we’re pretty picky) on lush cotton card stock. Even the envelopes are yummy; custom letterpress-printed and converted A2s feature more Henry goodness, including a doggy pattern flooding the flap, and a nice frame on the front for addressing.
Spark’s Bittersweet Ink series is also a welcome addition to the Lunalux card wall. These petite cards boast snarky greetings framed by graphic borders. With gothic lettering printed in the blackest of black ink on heavily textured stock (Gilbert’s Esse cover?) they look a little gritty and old-timey. But the modern compositions, cheeky sentiments and candy-colored 4bar envelopes (Neenah’s Eames furniture-finish) make for fresh, funny, cards. And we love the unusual detail that the landscape-oriented cards open on the short edge, rather than the more common top edge. It’s clear that the folks at Spark pay attention to the little details.
Old Tom Foolery’s work is similarly unsentimental. These footnote-inspired cards feature traditional greetings (“Happy Birthday!” “To the Bride and Groom”) with a little asterisk kick in the pants. Our favorite reads “Mazel Tov.* (*that’s Hebrew for Hell Yeah!)” They’re letterpress-printed on toothy cotton cover, and paired with envelopes to compliment the ink color. These and the Bittersweet Ink cards are happy companions to the Lunalux Irreverant series (Holy Shit! Congratu-fucking-lations! – click here for pictures and more info). All these cards are avialable now for your purchasing pleasure in the Lunalux studio store.
