Archive for ‘Valentine’s Day’

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We’re wild about our brand new custom Valentine’s Day cards! It’s our first time debuting them in our Hello!Lucky collection and we are thrilled to share the news. Whether you didn’t have a chance to send holiday photos, or want to reveal some news about a recent engagement, or just want to spread a little romance to friends and family, these cards and their retro personalities are the perfect touch. Shown are a few of our favorites, but you can check out the collection here! xoxo

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If sending photos isn’t your cup of tea, you can still send great cards with a personal message.

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For a short time, you can receive 10% off all Valentine’s Day cards (custom and greeting)! Just enter the code XOXOLUCKY at checkout!

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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.

Don’t forget to post your comment and tune in next week, same time, different stationery, to see if you’ve won!

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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.

Don’t forget to post your comment and tune in next week, same time, different stationery, to see if you’ve won!

This is a message we can all take to heart.
xo

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Love the cherry blossom petit fours, epecially! They were featured on Martha Stewart a bit ago, but we thought these pretty pink pastries needed a review.

Images courtesy here, here and here.

Adore Lynette Andreasen’s work!  She incorporates embroidery into a lot of her metal sculpture and jewelry. Love the contrast of textures.

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Embroidered flowers on a pewter plate. Gorgeous and utterly fascinating! Want it!

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That would be quite a piece to wear out on Valentine’s Day, no?

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Love the shadow, the silhouette and the softness of the fibers.

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This one reminds us a touch of Joel Dewberry’s Ironwork and Architecture designs.  Love, love!

Check out Lynettte’s blog and site for more beautiful work.

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Speaking of Valentine’s day treats, how sweet is this Heart Cake?!

Click here for the tutorial. Via Swiss Miss.

Gifts.com featured a super fun Hello!Lucky DIY project on their Gift Rap blog!  Along with fun instructional videos (complete with bluegrass music!), they include a printable PDF version of several of our Valentines cards so that you can print and personalize them to your heart’s content!

Our Guess Who owl is one of six Valentine card designs to choose from.

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Happy crafting!

Esther Aart’s darling new Valentine card, Cup of Tea made us think of the beautiful, handmade ceramic work of Sam Chung.

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Love the cloud cups. And the graphic style. And the gleaming porcelain.

If you’d like to see more of Sam’s work, look here.

And there are more brand new Valentine’s day card designs to choose from, here.

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