This is the design we used for our holiday cards this year (here’s the one we didn’t). The best thing about it? (Aside from the shiny, blingy, awesomeness.) It’s super versatile. So versatile in fact that it makes a perfect Valentine’s Day card!

These cards come in three shiny colors: pink, red and GOLD. Perfect for your L-O-V-E.
You can buy them in our etsy shop!

{photos by Dan Johnson}

Our first trip to the National Stationery Show last week blew our minds. Totally. 100% minds blown. There was so much gawking going on that we didn’t get any photos of the show, but we did pick up a lot of cool business cards and met some amazingly talented and sweet stationers. We can’t wait to exhibit! Maybe. Someday? To be decided. In the meantime, here were our favs from the show…

{photos by Tracy Osborn at Wedding Type Blog}

We’ve mentioned Chewing the Cud’s fabric wraps before, but they were oh-so gorgeous in person. Viola was so sweet and her booth was full of goodness–her shop is too!

{top photo by Nole Garey from Oh So Beautiful Paper, bottom photos from Sweet Bella}

We’ve had some fun with Japanese washi tape ourselves lately (more to come on that!) so we were gobsmacked when we saw a washi tape wall in Sweet Bella’s booth. There are so many awesome patterns.

{photos from aesthetic outburst}

We fell in love with The Nic Studio. Such fun, clever illustrations. And how about that seriously sweet pendant lamp?

{photo from aesthetic outburst}

We love, love, loved this calendar by Fine Day Press. Ashley was super awesome and took a few minutes to chat with us even though we weren’t buyers. The zig-zagged yarn in her booth was gorgeous–great idea!

{photo by Nole Garey from Oh So Beautiful Paper}

Mr Bodington’s Studio had a paper bike in their booth. It was amazing. We loved all of the white and popping colors too.
{photo from Old Tom Foolery}

We cracked up at Old Tom Foolery’s newspaper cards.

{photos by Nole from Oh So Beautiful Paper}

Our absolute favorite booth was by Twig + Fig. The booth was a work of art in itself, but our jaws dropped when we saw their seriously couture invites–from a leather zipper pouch to license plate save the dates to foil stamping on wood veneer.

We have a few more things to say about NSS so stay tuned. For more great coverage of the show head over to Oh So Beautiful Paper or Design*Sponge.

That’s right. Now’s the time to pick up that 2011 calendar. Heck, you can even stock up on our popular stache postcards for next year.

Head on over to our etsy shop and get 20% off your entire order until January 7, 2011 using the coupon code HAPPY2011.

It’s a few days later and I’ve finally thawed enough to share photos from the Holiday Market. We had a blast talking with customers and meeting our fellow vendors. Here are some photos of the booth, complete with a sneak peek at some new merch. (That rosy hue is from the red tent)

Come see us this weekend at the Omaha Holiday Market!  We will have all our popular Christmas postcards and, of course, the 2011 calendars.

We have holiday goods up in our etsy shop. Head on over and buy some holiday cheer.

Annnnnd for those of you in the Omaha are, we’ll have a booth set up at the Omaha Farmers Market and the Holiday Lights Festival on Dec. 4-5. We’d love to see you there!

Stay tuned for our 2011 calendar and gift items coming soon…

PS–Those snazzy cards on top were the official QLI holiday cards last year.

We’re super duper excited because we’ve been nominated for a Mobbie again this year! Please do us a huge favor (if you like our blog!) and VOTE for us in the Art + DIY category.

Happy voting and thanks a billion!

We were so excited when we were asked to write an article for Wedding Essentials Magazine back in June. We had no idea how much space we’d have or what the article would look like, so you can imagine how thrilled we were when we picked up the new fall issue to find EIGHT pages filled with our invitations!

We’re still kind of pinching ourselves.

It’s been a crazy couple of months trying to get our new blog and website off the ground, but finally…they’re HEREEEEEEE!

If you’re reading this, you’ve found the new blog! This also means we have a new RSS feed. Please add us to your reader if you fancy that kind of thing.

Take a look around the shiny new website and let us know if you see anything out of order. You might  have to refresh some of the pages a few times the first time around, especially if you frequented our old site.

Get ready for some great posts in the coming weeks. We’ve been storing them up!

Welcome!
Annie + Heather

Check out our news spot to learn more about our online Christmas designs!

Ananda