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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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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Codex Crowd
Events

Codex 2019

The seventh biennial Codex was last week! Held at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, California, Codex features a stunning array of artist’s books from people all around the world. Our greeting card line keeps us so busy, Painted Tongue doesn’t have any books to display… this time. But we are still involved! Bettina had her own …

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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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