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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 52nd edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway.  Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Naomi A, Laura H and Matthew Duerksen! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Nuts for You card.

Design: Just Married
Artist: Esther Aarts
Inspiration: A euro-retro-boho moment of brilliance!
Who to send it to: Any adorable young couple, of course…
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Esther thought the Hummer didn’t quite fit.
Favorite detail: We love how they’re both steering!
Why letterpress? Only the best for the newlyweds!

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 51st edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway.  Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Katie, Samantha and Christina! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Spring Chicken card.

Design: Nuts for You
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We all get a little nutty when it comes to Valentine design!
Who to send it to: Someone you makes you feel a little squirrely, or someone who’s cute and fuzzy and knows that squirrels just want to have fun.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The chipmunk version’s cheeks were a little unflattering, the mouse version was a little mousy, the vole was too vole-uptuous and the mole was, well, you know.
Favorite detail: Love the handmade heart turtleneck.
Why letterpress? How else could that sweater look so neatly pressed?

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 50th (!) edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway.  Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Stephy-Lou, Phoebe and Lauren C! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Biggest Fan card!

Design: Spring Chicken
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We trimmed our quills and made a lot of chicken scratch before we hatched this one.
Who to send it to: Even though Punxsutawney Phil disagreed yesterday— send it to the wise bird who knows spring is just around the corner, and that we’re all in the full bloom of our youth.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Another poultry card featuring a turkey— “Wattle I Do Without You?”— we agreed was little too wistful and weird. And the “I’m Too Chicken to Say I Love You,” was a bit too heavy to get off the ground.
Favorite detail: Chickens always look surprised, don’t they?
Why letterpress? All the better for the fine feathers and flourishes.

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 49th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Shana, Chef Andrea and Dave! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your We Belong card!

Design: Biggest Fan
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: This idea was so easy and breezy, it felt like it wafted in through the window.
Who to send it to: Someone who puts the wind in your sails and makes your day fresh and light.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The “Space Heater” metaphor left us a little cold. And air-conditioners are simply not romantic.
Favorite detail: The little bit of lift in the hearts gives our hearts a big lift.
Why letterpress? For vintage fans, only vintage presses will do.

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 48th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Cindy, Stacy and Terri! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your You’re Striking card!

Design: We Belong
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: Our salty tongues pepper our design dialogue with pithy one-liners, and somehow the perfect balance of savor and spice emerged.
Who to send it to: Your better half, your perfect match or perfect opposite.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The alternate text for the card read: “Come in for two shakes and I’ll show you what I keep in my cellar.”
Favorite detail: The simplicity, really. Sweet and simple. Or salty, rather.
Why Letterpress? The subtle and simple design calls for the restraint of a limited palette.

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 47th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Marlys, Sherry Lykins and Marti Schrock! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Let’s Be Frank card!

Design: You’re Striking
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We couldn’t quite visually pin down the feeling of being bowled over, or dumbstruck by someone’s charms. So we had this spare design on hand and we let it roll.
Who to send it to: Any fine fellow who might be casually referred to as “The Dude.” Also, anyone you feel might be on your team or even a little out of your league.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The “Slam Dunk” card lacked the necessary romance and the baseball Valentine’s implications of “bases” didn’t exactly hit one out of the park.
Favorite detail: Love the sports jersey typeface.
Why letterpress? Letterpress lets the third shadow color shine through with the overprinting of pink and blue.

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 46th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Ruth, Lisa and Heather! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Warm Things card!

Design: Let’s Be Frank
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We mustard up all our creative juices while playing ketchup on a deadline. Feeling saucy, we wanted a red-hot Valentine’s card that everyone would relish.
Who to send it to:  Anyone named Frank, Oscar or Mayer, or any adorable little brat.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Though we don’t want to knock the knock-knock knackwurst joke card, writing chorizo jokes was a chore, brat jokes are the wurst, and the mortadella jokes left us mortified.
Favorite detail: We’re still snickering at the little casing end.
Why letterpress? Our list of links between fine pressmanship and fine sausage is more than a foot long.

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 45th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Linda, Michael and Heather! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Happy New Year card!

Design: Warm Things
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We were skating on thin ice fishing for ideas, scraping by on a slippery slope, but after we thought of warm things it was all downhill from there.
Who to send it to: Someone who’s a little wild and wooly, seasonably squirrelly or just a real deer.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The words “sock it to me” repeated in a dense pattern with a myriad of mismatched socks.
Favorite detail: Don’t we all want a squirrel patch scarf?
Why letterpress? The ice-be-gone scraper is a lovely and homely little reality check— another crisp detail made possible through letterpress.

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 44th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Mirabelle, Jo and Agata! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Cozy Gifts card!

Now for this week’s timely card:

Design: Happy New Year
Artist: Esther Aarts
Inspiration: It was about time for Esther Aarts to do something really Cuckoo!
Who to send it to: A fine fräulein with time on her side or a handsome herr with just a minute to spare.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Perhaps it’s a sign of the times, but the grandfather clock design felt little old and tired.
Favorite detail: How fun to ring in the new year swinging on a pendulum!
Why letterpress? Like other handiwork from German engineers, our Heidelberg presses run like clockwork for years and years!

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Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 43rd edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting cards. We’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card.  Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!

The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Wolfie, Leah and Lisa! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Dancing Dreidels card!

Now for this week’s cozy card:

Design: Cozy Gifts
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We wool-gathered about it a while and when it came down to keeping warm and giving thanks, we needed a card that covered a cornucopia of comfort.
Who to send it to: Maybe someone who’s wise to your size and style and has been gifting you long johns and long socks for a long while.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The “Snuggie Calisthenics” card lacked the necessary je ne sais quois.
Favorite detail: We love anything and anyone with long johns on.
Why letterpress? Letterpress makes those snowflakes extra crisp.

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