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“Love you so much” with floral arch card
$8.00
plant-dyed handmade paper
Individually letterpress printed
thoughtfully made In california
Ships by next business day
100% satisfaction guarantee
woman-owned family business
Beautiful handmade paper cards, letterpress printed one-at-a-time with sweet phrases and illustrations for Valentine's Day.
Full deckle edge paper handmade in our California studio, hand-fed onto antique letterpresses for a textured deboss. Approximately 3 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches flat, bottom of back is printed with a small farmette logo and notes on the dyes used for the color; comes with an ecru envelope.
“ love you so much” with floral arch on blush paper
*Please note: all of our paper dyes are botanically-based and will vary because of slight differences in the plant matter, weather, and making process. Expect that the colors will be a little different than the image you see here, and enjoy that your card is truly one-of-a-kind. To maintain the original hue longest, please store out of direct sunlight.
We create our paper goods with great care and love in our studio in Palo Cedro, California! Loren writes and creates each design, often using sketching and handwriting, and then pairs it with the perfect paper color. Tim, Colin and Xela transform natural fibers into beautiful, plant-dyed, deckle-edged sheets. Lydia, Elevia, Christy and Jessica print them one-at-a-time on our antique presses and package them up for you! Scroll down for more details about our artisan making process.
Emily and Lydia will carefully pack up your order and ship it via the method you choose at check out. Our shipping timeline is one to three business days, and almost all orders will ship within one business day!
Please email us at shipping@farmette.co if you need your order to arrive by a certain date, and we will do everything we can to accommodate.
Hand Crafted with love
Farmette paper starts with natural cotton fibers, which are upcycled from the garment industry, and abaca fibers, from a plant in the banana family.
These materials are weighed and soaked, and then processed for four to five hours into pulp with a simple machine called a Hollander beater, which macerates the fibers so that they will knit together when shaken in water.
Once the beater is emptied, we use plant powders and occasionally minerals in careful ratios to dye our pulp in our natural palette. Most dyes are left for a 12-hour period to set.
Sustainably created
Next, the pulp is added to a vat of water. The papermaker skillfully pulls a screen stretched over a frame, with another frame on top - called a mould and deckle - through the pulpy water and shakes the slurry as the water drains out through the screen, leaving the shapes of the paper behind.
Excess water is sponged out, and the wet sheets of paper are transferred onto fabrics sandwiched between acrylic sheets. Stacks of these sandwiches are then moved onto a hydraulic press, where remaining water is slowly squeezed out and the fibers are further knit together to create a strong paper surface.
We Use Antique Letterpresses
These fabric-paper sandwiches are then removed from the press and hung to dry. Once they are dry, paper sheets are peeled off the fabrics by hand, and folded by hand into cards if necessary.
At this point, the paper is moved to our print room, where our press people print our designs on antique lettepresses and hot foil presses.
One By One...
Our designs, many with hand sketching or lettering that has been digitized, have been made into photopolymer plates or copper dies, which must be expertly aligned on the presses. One at a time, a piece of paper is precisely placed, and the press is activated by a foot pedal or hand lever to imprint the design into the paper.
The prints are then inspected for quality and placed with their envelopes or backers into a sleeve for safe-keeping. They’re ready to be shipped to our beloved customers all over the world!
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 189 reviews.
The farmette team has made much more than the card I ordered. The experience of the card was so cute. Very professional packaging, a cute thank you note and they gave me an extra card because it was my first purchase with them. It was such a treat!
So beautifully handmade. So thoughtful. Love it!
Really cool and unique card for valentines day! Stands out upon your basic hallmark/ drug store card, can't wait to give to my GF. Material is strong, ink is great.
I'm SO glad that I came across farmette co and their products. Their cards are unique and when I gave it to my wife, for Valentines Day, she loved it. Anyone can run to a grocery store and get your average, run of the mill mass produced card, but I wanted her to know that I put some thought into it and it did just that. HIGH FIVE 🙌 farmette co.
I gave my husband one card a day until Valentine's day. I hid them in the house like little treasures he would come upon. He loved them too.
The look of the card is exactly as pictured! It has quite a thickness and weight to it. I’m incredibly pleased by the high quality
The cards are absolutely beautiful!! I love them and can’t wait to give them away.
A perfect anniversary card for my daughter and son in law. Once again you scored 💯 for me
Loved the entire order
beautiful card - so cool - great texture and so unique!!
Smaller than I thought.
Really down to earth sentiments, many of which I love. Then handmade paper and great results. Please remain as you are - I’m a fan!
These cards are absolutely beautiful..
Quality, hand-made with love and care is so evident.
Such a cute card. Will use it for our anniversary
The card is beautiful and well-made. I love the saying!
Beautiful cards, handmade lovely. I’m doing gift bags for my niece’s bridal shower and I’m putting one of these cards in each!
Such a beautiful card! I can hardly wait to give it to my husband of 42 years. He is going to love it.❤️
Absolutely beautiful. You can see the time and attention in each of the handmade paper cards. The letter press makes it luxury
A great card for Valentines day!
The cards are beautiful! Love them.
love them
Beautiful cards!
The card is beautiful! Perfect in every way. I will definitely be ordering more cards.
BEAUTIFUL! Beyond expectations. My wife loved them.
These are the most precious cards!
Beautiful card! Came right on time, exactly as advertised. Will be ordering from here again!
Could not be happier!! The quality and craftsmanship were outstanding! I can’t recommend this company enough.
Very nice product but toooo long to arrive....
Very nice
Card is beautiful. I appreciate the creativity & care.
I am looking for the website to order my next cards
Love these pieces ….
Your work is beautiful!
Perfect
Quality was top notch! And I appreciate the handcrafted nature and personal touch! Thank you!
Got this because my wife deserves something special so she got it…..and you all provided it ❤️
My wife is in love. Thank you so much!
So happy with my love notes! The perfect gift to show someone love and appreciation. Beautiful look and very high quality.