New cards!

A few weeks ago I won a giveaway over on Oh hello friend for a set of letterpress business cards from Metal Doily Press and they have already arrived! I haven't had updated cards in pretty much forever so I was super excited to open up the box and take a peek. Monique wrapped them up with a sweet little bow and they came out quite nicely if I do say so myself. I showed them to the husband and the first thing he said was "they are so pink and girly, they are so you and your blog". I'd say we nailed it then. I can't wait to start handing them out, they feel super plush with nice and thick card stock and Monique is pretty fab herself with stellar customer service. For those living in Southern California she does participate in the craft show circuit so do check her and her lovelies out. For the rest of us, stop by her site for all things letterpress and show a bit of love.

images by our designed life

Fancy cards

I have been in serious need of new business cards but just can't seem to narrow down my thoughts enough to actually get anything designed. There are so many possibilities out there for creating unique business cards but my lack of photoshop has me using programs I'm not too familiar with and getting images to look just right has been trying. But these handmade embroidery business cards from Nina Gregier have gotten the wheels turning again {yay!}. Nina herself was inspired to make these beauties after one of her recent projects creating threaded embroidered typography. I've always loved mixing thread and paper its just an interesting look and feel and the pop of color on stark black is simply fabulous don't you think?

found on lovely stationery, photos via nina gregier