Spring Letterpress Cards from Satsuma Press

Spring Letterpress Cards Satsuma Press

It’s always a happy paper day when something new from Satsuma Press pops up in my inbox, and I’m completely enamored with their beautiful new spring line, which includes four lovely, modern letterpress card designs – Hello Friend, Paint, Bella, and Floral Field – in a palette of palest pink, ochre, mist, and dark charcoal. My goodness, do I ever love these colors (and these beautiful cards, too)!

Satsuma Press Hello Friend Card

Letterpress Paint Card

Spring Letterpress Card

Satsuma Letterpress Spring

images from Satsuma Press

New Advertiser : Sent Well

Sent Well

Please welcome Paper Crave’s newest advertiser, Sent Well, a service for busy people who love pretty paper goods and still believe in keeping in touch the old-fashioned way – with real, paper greeting cards.

Sent Well offers a wide selection of stylish letterpress, screenprinted, and plantable greetings from a bunch of awesome companies, including Night Owl Paper Goods, Elum, Hello! Lucky, and Egg Press, and they will hand write your personal message in your choice of card, stamp it, and send it so it arrives on your chosen date. But, if you would prefer to send your card(s) yourself, then it’s no problem. They’ll just send the cards directly to you.

All of the cards that Sent Well carries are environmentally friendly, and as part of their service they offer a free Card Calendar, so you can keep track of upcoming occasions and have reminders sent to you, and a Card List, so you can choose all of your cards ahead of time and schedule them to be sent as each occasion approaches.

This is such a great service for people who have very hectic schedules but still want to send out pretty greetings, as well as military personnel (a 15% military discount is available), who want to send cards and correspondence but may not have access to a stack of stationery and cards. People who have long business trips or vacations scheduled can also benefit from this service, as they won’t have to miss sending greetings for occasions and events that will be happening while they’re away.

image from Sent Well

Weekly Wrap #113 : Summersville

Weekly Wrap

Lu Summers Wrapping Paper

I love to see fabric designers taking the step into wrapping paper design, and this double-sided Totem gift wrap by Lu Summers is simply delightful. Printed using vegetable based inks and 80% recycled paper, these pretty gift wrap designs are available in sets of two (fire engine red/powder pink or seafoam turquoise/chartreuse green) over at the Summersville shop. Psst, the Bloomsbury sticky tape is pretty cool, too.

images from Lu Summers

Quick Picks Thursday : 3.29.12

Summer Garden Letterpress Print

“Summer Garden” LE letterpress print by Byvik Ink

This Week’s Picks

♥ A chic, inexpensive paper orb light project by Heather of Poppy Haus on Design*Sponge.

♥ Regal (and beautiful) gold and black letterpress wedding invitations by Dingbat Press.

♥ Loving this pretty cotton ribbon (the office supplies are super cool, too) at Urbanic.

♥ Gorgeous paper maché vessels by Susan Dwyer. – via All Things Paper

♥ Amazing, celestial-themed letterpress book covers for the Etsy Success Symposium by Nicole Licht, with printing by Moontree Letterpress.

♥ Learn how to make crepe paper magnolia flowers with Morgan Levine and Martha Stewart.

♥ Love letterpress and pretty paper? Parrott Design Studio is looking for a summer intern!

♥ Save 25% on everything in the Wiley Valentine Etsy shop during their Spring Sale with code SPRING25. Offer ends April 30th.

image from Byvik Ink

Happy Easter Cards, Part 2

Some super cool Easter cards are coming your way in part two of my roundup and, if you missed it yesterday, be sure to head over and check out part one for even more fantastic greetings.

A lovely collection of Easter greetings from Rifle Paper Co.:

Rifle Paper Easter Cards

Easter finger puppets and pretty floral patterns from Egg Press:

Egg Press Easter Cards

Modern Easter Egg and Origami Rabbit cards from Artistry Cards:

Artistry Cards Easter

A hand drawn “Happy Easter” letterpress card from Ink Meets Paper:

Hand Drawn Happy Easter Card

Pretty plantable Easter cards from Botanical Paperworks:

Plantable Easter Cards

Traditional Easter motifs with a modern twist in these pastel-colored cards from Sass & Peril:

Sass & Peril Easter Cards

Folk style illustration and pretty hand-lettering from Sycamore Street Press:

Sycamore Street Press Easter Card

images from their respective sources