Cuckoo for Cards

As some of you know, I love cards. 

My card fascination started back East when I found these adorable hand stamped cards at a Farmer's market, done on classy thick recycled paper, with a golden horseshoe in the middle.  I bought all five, and then found a number for the group that produced them, and ordered 100.  I start off every note I write on them with why I feel so lucky to know the recipient.

Last year for Christmas I bought Mudlark cards and then glued a springy picture of Cricket to the front and put frays of bailing twine all around.  Hard to imagine, but turned out kitschy cool.

This year I am stoked... working with GreeneStreet I am doing custom cards with a hilarious picture of the Cricket scarfing down a Christmas cookie.  I am talking, full crumbs a'flying!  If I don't do custom though I was thinking about one of their retro cards...  I really want to support Evan (founder) in her endeavor to successfully launch this company...  she is a beautiful person (on the inside, only met her via phone) with a beautiful product, with a beautiful mission.

Anywhoo... if you are Kuckoo for Cards, then get your eco-holiday cards early and write one a week, so by the time the holiday's are here you are done.  (Now let's see if I can follow my own advice!)

Off to write a card.  No, wait, will do my card list on the plane today.  That is pretty good start considering we just hit Nov..  Jen

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What about the Christmas trees - aren't they the biggest envronmental footprint??
Crazy - I am going to NYC Saturday and I was trying to remember where I saw GreeneStreet mentioned. I hope they have a retail store at the address posted on their website because I'm going looking for it!
Yea! Great tips today. Thank you!! It is so ooo oooo grey here today in the lovely state of Vermont. Your holiday cards tips were a welcomed spark of hope! I visited each site and got all gitty with saving the planet AND consumerism-spirituality!!
at the green festival in DC, there was a company that sold all kinds of papers products (cards, photo albums, journals) made out of recycled elephant poo. and the company name is mr. ellie pooh! what a great name and interesting concept! and i can attest, all the products smell great! http://www.mrelliepooh.com/
You forgot the easiset - take last years cards you received, and use as postcards!
I was looking at the Peaceful Valley Cards, referenced in the article. Are these shipped to us in metal containers? If so, isn't that kind of missing the point? Esti makes a good post about the footprint of Christmas trees. Seems to me like they do a good job of grabbing carbon while they are growing, but their overall footprint seems questionable. Anyone have real data? (I hope that its a positive gain as I love having large trees)
Hello Biter Bloggers! Just wanted to remind everyone that if you click on the "TIP LIBRARY" link up above in the nav bar on the right, you can see ALL our past tips, archived. One of those tips from last year is about Christmas trees. You can view it at: http://idealbite.com/tiplibrary/tip.php?tip=20051122&title=Making_Your_Christmas_(Tree)_a_Little_Greener If you want to continue the blog discussions there, just click on the blog link at the bottom of that tip, and it will take you to the Christmas tree blog. Happy Biting from rainy SF...
there's also girlywhirly greeting cards! printed with soy ink on recycled paper (some of which is 100% recycled with 50% post-consumer waste) and printed using a locally owned and operated printshop. check 'em out! www.girlywhirly.com
Wow! Cool! Another woman named Evan. I don't hear that very often. We decided against cards this year. We sent out almost 300 last year. What a waste of paper and resources. I might be inclined to do the recycled card idea if we can whittle our list down a bit.
In the shameless plug department, I have to endorse Recycled Paper Printing. Sorry, but damn, they're good. Just after college (circa early 1980's), my entrepreneurial and socially conscious friend Todd started a company that sold products made only from recycled paper. He's been doing it since then (meanwhile I have had probably 8 different jobs :-) Their main business now is doing printing projects for some major clients like the Sierra Club. But they can also do smaller jobs as well. So give them a call or check their site at http://www.recycledpaper.com/. And tell him Tom sent you.

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