Wedding cars!

Rally 3 It pays to have friends in the right places! Bristol-based illustrator Tom Frost creates these adorable bespoke cars as wedding gifts for his lucky friends! This car features colors from both the German and Norwegian flags - the native countries of the newlyweds. Tom takes commissions too - click here to learn more.

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Via GrassRootsModern.

The Exquisite Book

exn1041346 We recently collaborated with friend and artist Julia Rothman on The Exquisite Book, a pet project of hers along her colleagues Jenny Volvovski and Matt Lamothe from ALSO. Inspired by the Surrealist game, Exquisite Corpse, the book features over one hundred contemporary artists (including H!L's Eunice Moyle!), each completing one page of the book. Read more about the process here.

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The Exquisite Book is currently available for pre-order through Amazon and Chronicle Books.

Real wedding: Martine and Fred

4-pink-signature-cocktail Crafty couple Martine and Fred used our free template to create a sign for their signature cocktail for their recent Oregon wedding. Yay! We're so pleased we could contribute to this rustic event featuring bundt cakes, show posters and a country band! See more photos from this fun wedding at the fabulously redesigned Snippet and Ink!

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New destination wedding invitations: Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles & Paris!

WINV_VISITLASVE_AUB-FUC-ICE_Z_L We are beyond thrilled to preview our brand new "Visit" series destination wedding invitations featuring Chicago, Las Vegas (above), Los Angeles and Paris!! Designed by our friends at Lab Partners, these destination wedding invitations feature colorful illustrations of Chicago's Sears Tower, LA's Hollywood sign and both Paris and Las Vegas' Eiffel Tower! Check them all out here.

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Don't see your destination wedding invitation? Click here to learn more about our custom design services.

National Stationery Show: Best of the best, part 3

IMG_5386 Rounding out our favorites from NSS is this cheeky lightbulb from Fugu Fugu Press. We were also smitten with the clever illustrations from The Great Lakes:

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Last but not least, fun birthday wishes from Two Trick Pony:

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If you missed our earlier round up of favorites, you can find them here and here.

National Stationery Show: Best of the best, part 2

IMG_5409 Continuing with our favorite items from NSS, the above card from A. Favorite really appeals to our inner design geek, while this print (below) from Old School Stationers inspires us to turn off the computer and head straight for the kitchen!

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Ink and Wit cards and tea towels feature Tara's adorable animal illustrations.

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Along the same theme, we are coveting these animals from Enormous Champion something fierce!

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National Stationery Show: Best of the best

IMG_5317 Even though Rifle Paper Co is all over the blog-o-sphere, we couldn't resist posting about their debut at NSS. Adorable illustrations and hand lettering adorn cards, prints, stationery, and the super covet-able recipe box (above), complete with recipe cards, below (it will be available on their website soon).

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We also loved the hilarious cards from our friends at Blue Barnhouse...

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...and the beautiful fabric wraps (for wrapping gifts!) from Chewing the Cud.

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Stay tuned for more of our favorites!

sneak peek: Julia Rothman!

HL-780_F_L Julia's back! We've been conspiring with her on a line of kids birthday cards, featuring gentle giants and magnificent mermaids!

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Riveting robots!

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and unearthly unicorns!

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These will be available for sale on our website soon.

Visit us at the National Stationery Show, booth # 1536.

May 16th – 19th from 9-6

Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City

sneak peek: Esther Aarts!

HL-778_F_L Esther Aarts is an amazing Dutch illustrator who has done work for t-shirts, magazines, advertising and now...greeting cards! We recently collaborated with Esther on a couple cards for our Spring release and couldn't be happier with the results. For example, who doesn't love anthropomorphic beer steins cheers-ings themselves?! Or a cheerful Oompah band wishing you a happy birthday?!

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See more of Esther's work here and here. These will be available for sale on our website soon.

Visit us at the National Stationery Show, booth # 1536.

May 16th – 19th from 9-6

Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City

sneak peek: New Monkeys!

HL-770_F_L We've been working round the clock to get ready for the National Stationery Show. We'll be releasing a bunch of new cards, as well as promoting our new book (more on that later)! As part of our new release, our old friend Sock Monkey Sam has been having some amazing adventures! See him navigate through the sky with a trusty mate (above), or leap buildings in a single bound (below)!

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Rule benevolently over his loyal subjects....

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...and perform amazing acts of sorcery!

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These will be available for sale on our website soon.

Visit us at the National Stationery Show, booth # 1536.

May 16th - 19th from 9-6

Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City

The Exquisite Book Project!

It's sure turning out to be a good year! This awesome illustration, designed by our own lovely and talented head designer and co-founder, Eunice Moyle, has been accepted to appear in The Exquisite Book Project--published by Chronicle Books and out this Fall! Print

This project, curated by our friend and fellow designer Julia Rothman and lovingly dubbed "a total experiment"--is a collaborative effort among artists of all sorts; illustrators, designers, and comic artists come together to tell a singular story. Each artist contributes one full illustrated page to the book, and are given no more to go on than the previous artist's illustration!

We're over the moon about The Exquisite Book Project, and are rather humbled to be amongst such other contributors as: Mike Perry, Camilla Engman, Dave Eggers, and our buddies over at Lab Partners.