turtles all the way down

We have started to address our lack of card selection. We have cards for the major card holidays, but relatively few for other important moments, like when you just want to tell someone that you appreciate them.

This one was obviously inspired by Hindu mythology.
The world rests on the back of an elephant standing upon the back of a turtle.
The question, then, is what does the turtle stand upon? The answer, evidently, is a turtle, and that turtle rests upon another turtle. In fact, it's just turtles all the way down.

In Stephen King's book It he describes the death of the turtle. Pretty creepy, and what a giant shell!

card for ruth

Well, this past weekend was a busy one for the old letterpress biz. We printed up some fliers in exchange for a C.S.A. share -- a pretty good deal I think. We also designed a new "thank you" card and a new birthday card for Alia's grandma, "Gma", who is turning 70(!).
Those pictures will soon be posted on our other blog, here.

In addition to all of that, I still had time (well, I stayed up until two in the morning, after the fam went to sleep) to finish inking our friend, Ruth's, business card/hang tag. Most of the elements were from her sketches. I just arranged them nicely.

Photo by Alicia Carrier

Note: This is not the actual size for the card. I will, of course, shrink it down.

The next step is to contact a die-maker in town who can make us a die.
Woot!