back in october we got an order to produce 2,163,000 cards for a promotion for kraft foods. it was embedded with lettuce seeds and then attached to the inside page of a magazine. what was i thinking, how could i get it done, what would it take? looking back to an october post…..
“2,851,200 square inches [...]

so today was a momentous occasion for us! we began the journey of packaging 2,163,000 cards made from handmade plantable paper embedded with lettuce seeds! and here i thought making the paper would be the hard part, try cutting them.

some how we need to figure out how to fit 16 pallets in our mill so [...]

WE DID IT!!!

After tons of hard work and quite a bit of stress we have finally reached the halfway point on our big order! Now it’s time to really push the envelope and see if we can make local handmade paper history! Only 7 weeks remain with just over 37,000 sheets to go. The pressure’s [...]

well here is our friday photo! sam wants to do a 365 of porridge papers…a photo a day in the mill. lets see if she can keep it up. enjoy the weekend!!

so brizida is working on designs for a new series of plantable cards, plantable wine tags and plantable pillow boxes. i ordered the plates last week and we should go to press with them on friday. we all decided that she should also make the paper as well. so when all is said and done, [...]

on saturday we had so much fun with all the kids that came out for the easter egg run. we were offering free card making. we brought out some great spring colors of handmade paper as well as some plantable paper. what better way to start off spring then by giving a card that [...]

i keep hearing so much about this trend. is it a trend? is the whole “green” and “echo friendly” a trend? i hope not! i still remember doing an interview back in 1995 with the local news station about the plantable seed cards that i was making when i first started out and to this [...]

we just finished up 1,500 belly bands for a client. this was fun to work on, with a color like that how could you not keep smiling? the paper was made from recycled fibers and embedded with wildflower seeds. the type was done on our letterpress and the brackets were die cut. i was very [...]