Botanical Earth

This year I’m thrilled to include Flora and Fauna Letterpress cards!  Christine Brandt  is the clever indie stationary/card designer behind this artful biz located in California. 

What’s Letterpress and why is it so amazing?  Here’s a quote from Flora and Fauna’s site - “ Letterpress is the oldest printing technique, in which a raised surface is created from lead type, wood type, or polymer plates. The raised surfaced is inked, and paper is placed upon the inked surface with great pressure. This creates the lovely debossed surface unique to letterpress printing.”

One of the other reasons I love her work is that she went on a mission to find an antique Vandercook letterpress that she restored/rescued from a salvage yard.  How eco-friendly is that??  You can read all about it and see pictures on her About page.

The cards have such a lovely understated quality.  The paper stock is actually 100% cotton, so totally tree-free. The color and detail is not reflected in my picture taking skills.

Now when you order one of our gift baskets, you can select your favorite card.  Or if you order gift wrapping for your order, we’ll include one of her cards either filled out with your message, or blank so you can write your own message.

Ms. Brandt was kind enough to send me some extra cards in my order and I love those too.  You can expect to see her birthday and thank you cards being offered too throughout 2008 ~ yeah indie designers!  Check out her site at http://www.floraandfaunapress.com/

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