In-progress new release cards, with pineapple plate
printing

Painted Tongue Process

We are incredibly busy at the studio! In addition to printing our upcoming Summer card releases, we are always reprinting designs that have low stock. This process of adding new cards to the line and maintaining the rest means we have to print cards based on the similarity of their colors. Cleaning our Heidelberg windmill …

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Chrysanthemum Mother's Day card
Announcements Mother's Day Spring

Marvelous Mums!

It’s time to get your Mother’s Day cards! Get one of our cards featuring a lovely Spring flower to let your mother know how amazing, stupendous, phenomenal, stunning, bodacious, incredible, and fabulous she is! Just don’t tell her she’s unbelievable! These cards and more are available in our Etsy shop.          

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Once Upon a Time

Our cards are sold in a variety of stores around the country, one of which is the gift shop in the West Lobby of the Broadmoor Hotel, in Colorado Springs. We recently discovered that the owner of Painted Tongue Press and illustrator of our card line, Kim Vanderheiden, had family who worked and lived at the …

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Makeready
Announcements printing

Make Way for Makeready

We are currently working on an exciting new project proposal to create public art using the makeready printed at our studio!   The makeready is a byproduct of the letterpress printing process. When we print our greeting cards, there is an involved press set-up process that requires printing on a piece of paper, making adjustments, …

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