farmette favorites bundle: 25 of our most popular cards

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Beautifully textured handmade paper

Individually letterpress printed

Thoughtfully made in California

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The ultimate start to your stash! This collection of cards includes our most beloved designs across a variety of occasions. It stands alone as an easy way to get started with a beautiful card cache, or supplement with seasonal bundles or single cards to build a collection tailored just for you! Comes in a beautiful wooden stationery box (plus extra goodies!) you can reach for any time you need.

All cards are folded except the every day and quote note cards which are flat. Approximately 3.75x5.25in plus deckled edges. Comes with ecru envelopes.

INCLUDES (BY OCCASION):

BABY: “welcome little love” on vanilla, “you’re going to be an amazing mama” with rose illustration on blush

BIRTHDAY: “happy birthday” with cake illustration on blush, “happy birthday beautiful” with flower illustration on honey, “this world is better because you’re in it” handwriting on soft white, “here’s to a fruitful year - happy birthday” with fruiting branches illustration on rose, "I am so glad you were born" on soft white

ENCOURAGEMENT: “life is better with a friend like you” with illustration of mugs on blush, “it’s been a lot and you’re doing great” on soft white

EVERY DAY NOTE CARDS: illustration of a bowl of flowers on blush, illustration of a peony stem on vanilla, illustration of a vase with a flower arrangement inside on leaf, minimalist illustration of two people hugging on soft white

MILESTONES: “what a beautiful life you’ll have together” handwriting on vanilla, “congratulations on your new home” with branches in vase on leaf, “yay you!” on soft white

LOVE: “I’m glad I get to grow old with you” with illustration of two rocking chairs on leaf, “wild about you” with horse illustration on vanilla

HARDSHIP AND LOSS: settled joy original poem on duck egg blue, “that was really hard and you were really brave” on deep indigo

 

QUOTE NOTE CARD: “I must have flowers, always and always. - claude monet” on soft white

THANK YOU: “thank you” with wreath illustration on soft white, “thank you for having us” with illustration of a place setting on vanilla, “thanks a bunch” with illustration of a bunch of carrots on leaf

THINKING OF YOU: “thinking of you” with moth illustration on terra cotta

 
*WANT TO BUILD A CUSTOM COLLECTION? We’ve put all of our cards on one page to make it easy here.

-WANT TO START SMALLER? Our farmette essentials collection is a great option.

We create our paper goods with great care and love in our studio in Palo Cedro, California! Loren writes and creates each design, often using sketching and handwriting, and then pairs it with the perfect paper color. Tim, Colin and Xela transform natural fibers into beautiful, plant-dyed, deckle-edged sheets. Lydia, Elevia, Christy and Jessica print them one-at-a-time on our antique presses and package them up for you! Scroll down for more details about our artisan making process.

Emily and Lydia will carefully pack up your order and ship it via the method you choose at check out. Our shipping timeline is one to three business days, and almost all orders will ship within one business day!

Please email us at shipping@farmette.co if you need your order to arrive by a certain date, and we will do everything we can to accommodate.

Hand Crafted with love

Farmette paper starts with natural cotton fibers, which are upcycled from the garment industry, and abaca fibers, from a plant in the banana family. 

These materials are weighed and soaked, and then processed for four to five hours into pulp with a simple machine called a Hollander beater, which macerates the fibers so that they will knit together when shaken in water.

Once the beater is emptied, we use plant powders and occasionally minerals in careful ratios to dye our pulp in our natural palette. Most dyes are left for a 12-hour period to set.

Sustainably created

Next, the pulp is added to a vat of water. The papermaker skillfully pulls a screen stretched over a frame, with another frame on top - called a mould and deckle - through the pulpy water and shakes the slurry as the water drains out through the screen, leaving the shapes of the paper behind. 

Excess water is sponged out, and the wet sheets of paper are transferred onto fabrics sandwiched between acrylic sheets. Stacks of these sandwiches are then moved onto a hydraulic press, where remaining water is slowly squeezed out and the fibers are further knit together to create a strong paper surface.

We Use Antique Letterpresses

These fabric-paper sandwiches are then removed from the press and hung to dry. Once they are dry, paper sheets are peeled off the fabrics by hand, and folded by hand into cards if necessary.

At this point, the paper is moved to our print room, where our press people print our designs on antique lettepresses and hot foil presses. 

One By One...

Our designs, many with hand sketching or lettering that has been digitized, have been made into  photopolymer plates or copper dies, which must be expertly aligned on the presses. One at a time, a piece of paper is precisely placed, and the press is activated by a foot pedal or hand lever to imprint the design into the paper.

The prints are then inspected for quality and placed with their envelopes or backers into a sleeve for safe-keeping. They’re ready to be shipped to our beloved customers all over the world!