Thank You Thursday
Events

Thank You Thursday

Book Passage, which carries our greeting cards, held their Thank You Thursday event this past Thursday at the Ferry Building in San Francisco! Led by project founder Susan Birnbaum, this event brought people of all ages together to write cards. In this age of digital media and messaging, it can be a comfort to receive …

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Spanish Moss with Bat closeup
Animals Birds Fall

Halloween Greetings!

Halloween is upon us and we have some spooky (or maybe not so spooky) friends to celebrate the holiday with! If you should find yourself nodding, nearly napping, and hear a tapping, a gentle rapping, at your chamber door. . . .   Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and …

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Can you identify this Painted Tongue image?
Announcements

Free Card if You Can Identify These Images

Can you identify which cards these designs come from? Guess all three and receive a coupon for one free card with your next purchase from our shop on Etsy! Check out our Etsy shop here for images of the cards. Please send your answers directly to info@paintedtonguepress.com, so as not to share them with the …

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Liz McCall on the Vandercook at Painted Tongue Studios
printing

Working on the Vandercook

A view of our lovely studio, complete with paper sculptures hanging from the ceiling, as our new assistant Liz McCall prints on the Vandercook. The plate on the press bed is for the Maidenhair Fern card.   The paper is fed over the cylinder so the ink on the plate prints onto the paper; the …

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