The Card Designer Highlight is a collection that includes unbiased makers whose greeting playing cards yow will discover in Paper Supply shops. Meet and be impressed by a brand new designer each month on our weblog!
2024 was a yr crammed with stunning stationery! We realized how 12 uniquely artistic card designers make their artwork come to life by way of totally different processes and inspiration. One thing that every of those designers have in widespread is that their playing cards have been deliberately created whether or not that is for particular moments or evoking emotion of their recipients.
As we enter a brand new yr, let’s remind ourselves the way to be extra intentional in our everyday life from the experience of our featured playing cards designers and their playing cards that make us really feel extra linked!
1. Quilling Card Co. reminds us that the method is definitely worth the consequence.
Every design is fastidiously created and crafted with love and care by our extraordinary group of designers, illustrators, and artisans. The event of every design is really distinctive in the place the inspiration originated, the artistic execution, and its rounds of enhancements resulting in the ultimate design. If you give a Quilling Card, you aren’t simply giving a greeting card, you might be gifting a handmade murals.
2. Heartland Playing cards reminds us that placing your self on the market could be rewarding.
I discovered myself making greeting playing cards at my desk for co-workers, and finally for his or her associates. I designed a tiny line of playing cards and confirmed them to a paper retailer across the nook from my house in Brooklyn. The store proprietor bought some playing cards! In success, a buyer that bought a card from the shop contacted me on etsy to make a child bathe invite… and the invite was for a purchaser from Anthropologie. I despatched the client samples, she bought a pair playing cards, and my line and enterprise grew and grew. Quickly after, Paper Supply discovered my work by way of a submit on Design Sponge. I’ve been so fortunate and I really like what I do, and I hope it reveals.
3. Shorthand Press reminds us that typically curiosity can lead us to our subsequent journey.
A few years in the past, I discovered myself drawn to this little retailer in Seattle. I’d go in and simply take a look at the greeting playing cards, really feel the paper, learn the phrases, take a look at the again to see who made them, after which attempt to discover out extra in regards to the firm and one that had made the playing cards. I realized that the printing technique that I noticed on these playing cards that I used to be so drawn to was known as letterpress printing. I discovered a category and realized the way to print on a letterpress, purchased my very own press and began printing enterprise playing cards and wedding ceremony invites.
4. 2021Co reminds us that we are able to at all times be studying from the folks and the sweetness round us.
(Nicole) For me, inspiration comes from the human expertise. How are folks feeling? What messages are most in want and the way can we make them stunning and accessible. (Emily) I discover inspiration in all places, and I’m always snapping footage and taking screenshots. Issues yow will discover in my digital camera roll: distinctive shade combos, lettering, sample and foliage! That mentioned, phrases are critically essential in each card we create.
5. Gotamago reminds us that typically essentially the most particular moments can come from the smallest gestures.
Over time, I’ve come to grasp that playing cards are a particularly democratic approach to share artwork. Whereas unique work is probably not reasonably priced for everybody, a greeting card makes for an accessible and versatile piece of decor. When our prospects share their images of playing cards framed on their partitions, I’m heartened to know that my artwork is part of their on a regular basis lives.
6. Paper Baristas reminds us to assist causes which are essential to us.
In a world crammed with digital communications, the artwork of handwritten notes and customized stationery holds a singular attraction. We draw inspiration from numerous sources, however on the coronary heart of all of it are the tales of our staff and the causes we assist. From selling psychological well being consciousness to advocating for environmental sustainability, our merchandise function a canvas to amplify these essential messages.
7. Brittany Paige reminds us to find time for our passions.
Born out of an obsession with popular culture and whereas navigating early maturity in New York Metropolis, I began my enterprise with simply six greeting playing cards (all centered round break-ups). Through the nights and weekends of my company design job within the style business, I began illustrating playing cards that mirrored my private pursuits and social developments. Facet hustle finally turned full-time gig, these six OG playing cards have grown into the stationery and present enterprise that you simply see immediately — a model that creates presents for the women that get it.
8. Ramona & Ruth reminds us to take pleasure in our personal journey.
I’m happy with how I’ve constructed my enterprise steadily and slowly. Generally it’s laborious to go searching and see different’s successes and the way they’re rising at a faster fee than you, however trying again, I’m completely satisfied I took it gradual. This has allowed me to construct a robust enterprise basis whereas additionally permitting me to be current with my household. I’m actually proud to think about how far I’ve come!
9. Amy Heitman reminds us to unfold pleasure each time we are able to.
I’m so grateful for the chance to have the ability to create and see my concepts come to life, and to create one thing others can use to unfold a bit of affection and pleasure on the planet. My favourite factor is listening to somebody acquired considered one of my playing cards and I really like that individuals select to ship them to these they love crammed with considerate phrases.
10. Little Could Papery reminds us to go away room for each day enjoyable and playful moments.
I discover my inspiration for Little Could Papery within the candy and easy moments. I really like utilizing puns and phrase play, in addition to giving little personalities to inanimate objects – like a smiley cup of espresso or a pizza slice with legs and arms. I like to weave that silliness into my designs. There’s one thing so pretty a couple of card that makes you smile, cry or chuckle out loud. I prefer to mix these playful touches into my designs, creating playing cards that permit for connection and add a contact of caprice to on a regular basis moments.
11. Verrier Handcrafted reminds us to show one thing bitter into one thing candy.
At the moment, I assumed I used to be on my approach to be a clothier with the blessing of my clothes being positioned subsequent to Marc Jacobs. With out getting too gloom-ridden, there was the sting of the monetary disaster in 2008 that hit the style world laborious. That offered a dilemma, as a younger clothier, to get artistic with reinventing myself. Curiously sufficient, this problem discovered me revisiting the a part of style design that I loved essentially the most – drawing style….I refashioned a few of these paper style gals into playing cards I’d ship to my grandmother. She really informed me to contemplate a greeting card enterprise.
12. Gray Road Paper reminds us to search for consolation after we want it to maneuver ahead.
I really like understanding that my artwork and concepts carry consolation, pleasure, and happiness to folks’s lives. Certainly one of my favourite card designs is a sympathy/assist card impressed by a saying from my grandma. At any time when I mentioned “goodbye,” she would at all times reply, “It’s not goodbye, it’s so lengthy for now!” This card shall be accessible in Paper Supply shops in 2025. It means a lot to me that her phrases will carry consolation to others.
