Birthday Card Bundle II
Beautiful handmade craftsmanship
Thoughtful, charming designs
Exquisite packaging and details
Always have a beautiful birthday card on hand! This collection of twelve cards will leave you stress-free and ready with a unique, lovely card.
Each is letterpress printed on botanically-dyed handmade paper, crafted by our small artisan team from fiber to finish in our studio just down the road from our hobby farm in rural California.
Comes in a keepsake wooden stationery box you can pull out any time you need.
All cards are folded. Approximately 3.75x5.25in plus deckled edges when folded. Comes with ecru envelopes.
INCLUDES:
- "so excited for all this next year holds for you, my friend" on petal
- "Happy Birthday" with floral cake illustration on blush
- "this world is better because you're in it" in handwritten script on soft white
- "many things grow better with age (including you!) - happy birthday" with wine bottle illustration on oak green
- "happy birthday to you" on duck egg blue
- "you're a good egg - happy birthday" with egg carton illustration on vanilla
- "Happy Birthday Handsome" in gold foil on deep indigo
- "Hope your birthday is the sweetest" with ice cream cone illustration on soft white
- "I am so glad you were born" on soft white
- "Cheers to your birthday" with beer mug illustration on honey
- "happiest birthday wishes" with dandelion illustration on vanilla
- "You are so worth celebrating - happy birthday" on duck egg blue
- Special "goodie bag" to enjoy as you write your cards
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!
