Celebrity Carding: Valentines Top 5

It’s a conversation every couple has to have at some point: The Top 5 List. Meaning, if you could give it up to 5 celebs guilt-free, who would they be? Now folks, we’re not talking nookie, because we keep it clean here at FP, but we mean something just as special—letterpress love, baby! And while we would give Andy and Justin all the valentines in the world if we could, there are a few exceptions for who could get their hands on our paper goods.

Here’s my Top V-Day Card 5 list (in no particular order):

Andy Samberg

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It’s no secret, I’m a sucker for the funny. If you can make me laugh, then you can most certainly make me pancakes in the morning. Of course, the obvi choice here for my SNL honey would be this card, but his oddball and often Wahlberg-based sense of funny makes me do a full on belly laugh, which makes me want more than pancakes with my breakfast—something hearty and salted, like bacon, and even though I love me some pork products, I think I could love Andy Samberg even more.

Jason Stackhouse (played by Ryan Kwanten)

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An Aussie who can pull off a white trash Southern freak-slayer and look sexy doing it is a winner in my book. Keep up the brotherly do-gooding, Jason Stackhouse, and keep taking off that shirt. Don't know about you, but I think we’d make one neat-o bandito match.

Ryan Gosling

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This dapper young fellow is an up-and-comer on the Hollywood scene, and on my Top 5. I haven’t even seen Blue Valentine yet, but I have seen him hand out a bunch of hooded fleece onesies to everyone in Ellen’s audience, and any lover of footed couchwear can be a lover a mine. And as Ryan becomes an A-list baller, I just want to remind him to stay true to his fleeced roots and never change.

Tim Riggins (played by Taylor Kitsch)

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So I love the show Friday Night Lights. And this is where I start to feel a little creeped out by myself, because I have to admit, I also love me some high school football players. If you’ve seen the show, ladies, you know what my Tim Riggins crush is all about. If you haven’t, don’t judge until you’ve been compelled to imagine yourself riding shotgun in his beat up truck with the wind our hair and 3^rd period biology in the rear view mirror. I’d press my initials into some Crane paper with #33 anyday.

Mos Def

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Well, this one doesn’t take much explaining, does it. M-O-S-D-E-F-initely.

Lisa’s Top V-Day Card 5 (in a very particularly thought-out order):

1. Ryan Reynolds

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Ohhhh, Ryan...Will Lisa still love you on a rainy day? Can you say abs-olutely! Here’s some sunny reassurance for our hot-bodied friend—Scarlet wouldn’t know what to do with your love if it hit her in the fat pout.

2. Cristiano Ronaldo

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From Lisa herself: Yes, I know he's a douche, but he's hot. Can’t blame a girl with a thing for the soccer players. On this V-day (and any day), she’d give ole Ronnie, “You’re a manwhore but I still love you.”

3. Henry Cavill

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Lisa’s considering bumping this king’s confidant from the glorified night-soap drama The Tudors up to number 1, which I have to say is just plain smart carding. Give him props and give him some letterpress, especially since the newly-named Superman could come to her rescue at any moment and there might not be time for proper introductions between muggings.

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Even though Lisa says she would “take him now, but Borne Identity days were his best,” this honorary card goes to Mr. Damon for his laugh-rousing performance on 30 Rock as Liz Lemon’s pilot bf. She’d induct him into the mile-high club.

5. Sidney Crosby (Sans Mustache)

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Now, I don’t know anything about hockey, but I’m told by Lisa that I should know lots about this studly Penguin. And while she personally prefers Sidney zambonied, she’s willing to show full support for his superstitious mustache habits, as long as he brings the Cup home to the 'Burgh.

So on this heartfest of a day, be sure to tell your special ones how much you heart them, and then ever so gently broach the subject of who you have the permission to hand out your letterpress love to.

Happy get some day, everybody!
} jp-c

Wedding Invitations: Old Fashioned Lemonade

When Caroline and Matt came to us with this heart-warming theme for their spring wedding in Charleston, we gushed—literally, like a bushel of fresh-squeezed lemons. They were pretty much the dream couple to work with, letting us run with the color scheme of pale yellow with navy accents to do whatever our puckered hearts desired. And the ideas just started pouring out. Some of the inspiration for their custom suite:

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Now, this wasn't our first rodeo on the Southeastern seaboard, you'll recall Lisa and Justin's own Savannah-nanza. But this is our first Chucktown invitation, and we were excited to work with a new, lovely color scheme. (Our new credo: no.more.green.) On our list for this charmingly Southern affair there were three must-haves: soft seersucker. heavenly florals. faux bois (Lisa's newfound fave...stay tuned for more on the matter).

We served up Caroline and Matt a pretty little letterpressed diddy that mixed a modern peony design and a classically elegant type treatment. Then we finished it off with a tall glass of pale yellow seersucker laced with a navy stitched border, all given that extra sweet touch with a faux bois bellyband.

Here's a look at the final pieces!

Delish. I don't know about you, but I can't wait to see the final event pics. Till then, a sweet cheers to you all!

} jp-c

V-cards for V-day

Valentine's Day is just around the corner and you may be pondering what to get that special someone in your life. Whether you want to send special note to your significant other or a sassy card to your friend, Farewell Paperie has your bases covered. We've just posted some newbie Vday cards to our Etsy site that are super fun and cute. Check them out and save the chocolates for next year.

Just a couple of blogs, holding hands across the web universe.

So usually, Lisa and I do a lot of zigging and zagging to run our business from opposite coasts. Then after all that emailing, texting, skyping, calling, we tip the carrier pigeon and get down to that paper magic. I like production. Just me, my headphones, and a letterpress machine, or a sewing machine, or a paper cutter, or a scoring machine, or--well, you get the point. But working alone in a literal closet for a studio interacting mainly with said machines can make a person a little socially batty. A few things I've noticed brought on by working from home:
-Talking to myself.
-Answering myself.
-Opening the fridge 10 times more often than usual.
-High-pitched enthusiasm at the arrival of the UPS delivery person.
-Confused perception of facebook time and actual face time with my friends.
-Increased desire for a cat.
I'm about 10 paper cuts shy of institutionalization. That's why it makes it so incredibly awesome and worthwhile when we get a loving virtual embrace from our friends in the creative stratosphere. It's like a big, fat gold star sticker on Mrs. Piper's 2nd grade best helper board -- an animated .giffy one that turns into glitter at the end.

Some of the blogs that have hugged us lately are ones that we'd already loved and drooled daily over, but seeing our name on their pages made us love them even more. And we think you'd love them too. So here's a little hug back for those guys, with an extra sneaky toosh squeeze:

The Nesting Game

Our dear friend Molly's blog is the virtual lovechild of Martha Stewart and HGTV's Genevive Gorder. She and fiance Taylor have made a lovely home for themselves in a ranch style mid-century home in Atlanta, and they have taken us all on their fun journey of DIY, foodie goodies, world travel and the perpetual style hunt for home. My anticipation for Molly's Friday Five is rivaled only by that of my Friday ham & cheese croissant, often ingested in unison for max happiness. Her projects always turn out awesome and she makes you feel like you could even try some of them on your own. Check out The Nesting Game here!

Allison's Thoughtbubbles

Miss Allison is a stylish little chica, and her blog shows it. She features all the lovely things in her daily Richmond, VA life, from fashion and jewelry to decor to art. You just feel a little bit more hip and with it when you read along, like getting a little dose of her cool world intravenously through your mouse. Not to mention her ability to keep up with new music is ridonk. Getcha some of Allison's tasty bubbles here.

Badder Homes and Gardens

They have great taste and they cuss like sailors. Our kinds of chicks. These awesomely foul ladies have been a favorite read for years now, and the wit just keeps on coming. They feature rad home and lifestyle products that make you want to quit your day job and make gangsta cards for the rest of your life. What. What. So throw your hands in the ay-er and blogroll like you just don't cay-er. Ch-ch-check 'em out.

Creative websharers like these make us feel a little less alone and a little more like all those things John Lennon said were true:
Imagine all the people
Blogging all the world...

Oh no I dih-n't. Oh, yes I did.

Peace out, suckas. Weekend, go!
} jp-c

California Dreaming

These past few months Jen and I have been traveling fools. Between the two of us, we've been to Florida, Arizona, Washington, Georgia, California... (I feel like I'm missing a few more states, but you get the picture.) My last bit of traveling ended recently in San Francisco where I met up with Jen to work on some new cards for our retail line. We thought it would be fun to commemorate our traveling by creating postcards that have the states we have traveled to.

Each card is letterpressed on both sides and is blank on the back for your message.

Right now we have California, New York, New Jersey, Georgia and Florida printed, but we have many more coming down the pipeline. We hope to eventually press all 50 states. We thought these little guys would also be really cute wedding favors, especially for a destination wedding







Jen and I thought it would be fun to send my husband a little love from Cali while I was in San Fran. So we wrote him a little note and slipped it in the mail without telling him.

He was so surprised when our Cali postcard showed up a few days later in our mailbox.

I knew it was a big hit when he proudly displayed the card in our fruit bowl. (Yes, we put our mail in our fruit bowl in the kitchen. It's the first thing we see when we walk into our house!)

If you are interested in getting your hands on these sassy state postcards you can find them on our Etsy site or at Urban Cottage in Atlanta.

~LGT

The January Blues

January. The rock bottom of winter months. November and December are full of food, festivities and fun and then you hit January. Wham. All of the sudden you realize you're back to cold cut turkey for your sandwiches, and top 100 hits on the radio.

This January has been especially weary for those of us living in the south. The winter storm that hit last week paralyzed Atlanta for nearly 6 days.

Yeah, that's me skating across Peachtree Street.

And me breaking my "sled" on the really hard snow.

It's funny how a few inches of snow and too many hours on the couch can get me thinking about the holidays again. Maybe it's the nostalgia of growing up in the north or the fact that the holiday hustle and bustle is over, but as the tiny flakes slowly covered Atlanta, I found myself wishing our Christmas tree was still standing and our neighbors hadn't taken down their lights.

Jen must have had ESP because the day before the storm hit, I received a package of the custom holiday cards we had been working on. We were asked this year to create new custom holiday cards on top of the retail cards we had online and in Urban Cottage,Atlanta. We, of course, were excited and pleased with the outcome of these cards.

One card was for Jen's sister. Her super cute nephew was featured on it.

The other card was for my best friend's sister. Her three little boys are unbelievably adorable!

It was a nice surprise to get the cards when I did. The snow coupled with the unexpected mail made it feel like a mini Christmas all over again. Perhaps January isn't so bad. It's the month of last year's reflections and possibilities of this coming year. Who knows what 2011 will bring this year, but we hope it's a good as last year was to us.

~ LGT