a cavalcade of cards
Animals Announcements Spring

Time for Spring!

As we spring forward into this new season, a season of renewal and new growth (and hopefully some much-needed rain), we invite you to come check out our selection of spring cards! Brighten someone’s day with a brilliant daffodil, a sweet bunny nestled in tulips, cheerful peonies and Japanese magnolia blooms, or delicate cherry blossoms. …

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Display at Wildflower & Fern
Announcements

Wildflower & Fern

We want to shout out Wildflower & Fern, a flower shop located in the Rockridge neighborhood in Oakland, for their recent order and beautiful display of our cards! Previously known as Flower and the B, and continuing now under a new ownership and name, they have carried our cards steadily and faithfully for years. We …

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Magenta layer on Ice Plant cards
Announcements printing

Kim’s Printing Marathon

There was a printing marathon at Painted Tongue Press last weekend! Three titles were completely out of stock and two were needed to fill orders. Since red was on the press last, and it’s easier to clean the press and move from a similar color, I started with the magenta layer of the Ice Plant …

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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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Poppy card printing
Announcements Mother's Day printing Spring

Poppy Printing

Reprinting the Icelandic Poppy card on the Heidelberg windmill press – the card has three variations: birthday, Mother’s Day, and blank, and each requires a different plate for the black ink layer. The press has a mechanism to feed the paper into the press and can get really tight registration on the printed image.   …

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