A note on frustration

I'm not sure why other greeting card companies feel it's ok to take this card, change a few words on it and then make it their own but alas I saw the second copy of it this morning. I'm pretty brokenhearted about it to be honest.

I know that in greetings there are sentiments that are copied / changed a bit etc - I mean how many times and ways can you say Happy Birthday? This one though... is very specific. It was created in 2013, I have a file date stamped with a early January date in fact. I have also been selling it to Urban Outfitters for most of that time. It's difficult to get bigger than Urban Outfitters. 

So today I contacted a lawyer to see if I have any recourse. I'm not sure that I do, or that I want to pursue it considered how much money it would cost and hassle. But I'm going to ask the questions.

until then, I thought I would remind you of the original. I'll even give you the link to purchase it if you felt so inclined. 

The soft launch

We're moving and shaking over here at Richie HQ. Did I mention? We're headed to The National Stationery Show for the first time this year. #nss2015 is the hashtag that you'll be seeing a lot in the next few months around here and on your favorite paper sites.

It was time for a freshen up on the ol website. We still have some invites to add and press items but for the most part we're up and running.

We still have our Etsy shop moving and shaken' as well for all your purchases.

TO VALENTINE OR NOT THAT IS THE QUESTION

The whole Valentine's thing... There are a number of people who just aren't into it. I get it! I often design my cards with the idea that you could use them year round. Designating a day to say I love you doesn't have to be on the calendar it could be a normal Tuesday in July. But remind your sweetheart at some point. "You are my everything". #truth #valentines #everydaylove #etsy#letterpress

AVAILABLE HERE

Find us in La Jolla

Dear San Diego

You can find Richie Greetings very soon [shipping this week] at the new cutie store Hi Sweetheart in La Jolla

Hi Sweetheart

7920 Ivanhoe Avenue 
La Jolla, CA 92037 

I wanna kiss you all over

Monday's Valentine New!

I really do........I wanna kiss you all over.

available here of course

Groundhog's Day

You know what other holiday is coming up? The height of card giving Groundhog's Day!

and have I got the card for you.

My dad said to me last year. Every year I look and look and no one has a Groundhog's Day card! I said well, it's probably not the height of card giving holidays but I know this girl and she can make you one or two if you are nice. This year he got a whole box of them.

So if you're a fan of Punxsutawney Phil I've got the card for you.

I had to add my own sense of humor about it though and imagined ol' Phil just needing a latte and a cookie to tide himself over. "Weather? Whatevs, I just came up for a snack"

available HERE

Valentine

You are, you really are the cutest 

Available here

Love is in the air

Valentine's Day is coming! I thought I'd start to feature some of our newer cards. Today Love You More was featured on Oh So Beautiful Paper so what a better card to start with!

What Are You Doing New Year's Eve

I'm not a New Year's Eve fan really. The evenings just never live up to the hype. There was that one year I saw Nirvana in SF with a friend and a little known band called Pearl Jam opened for them but I think all the NYEves went downhill from there.




 I prefer to rent a few movies have a nice meal. Friends might come over / they might not - that's fine too. I'll wear my PJs, open a bottle of Champagne sip and toast with my hubby, play on the iPad and fall asleep by 11 – Just how I like it.

I hope you have a safe and lovely night - however you like to spend it.

today

I let go of something big today. It sort of feels like I'm still free falling with that feeling you have when your stomach moves in your body. I'll tell you more soon. It's exciting and scary and  I've nick named it my mid-life crisis.

holiday sale

It's small business Saturday! I hope that if you are shopping today you're supporting a local business. If you're in need of a stock up on items I'm also offering a little holiday treat for everyone. 
Sorry, Not valid for custom orders. Visit the Etsy shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/richiedesign

A little holiday treat for all of my peeps. 30% off your online orders. Hurry! sale ends Dec 3rd. 

Give Thanks To The Bacon

Looking forward to Thanksgiving with friends next week! Also lets GIVE THANKS to bacon shall we? it makes everything better, so do you so don't you forget it!

available here

Sassy Pants

in case you had any doubt about me - it's official just call me sassy pants 

image here

disco is the answer

dunno why but I've been all about the disco balls, sparkles and gold lately. It's not really ME per se but I  like it! I find it showing up in my cards and upcoming promo pieces for my wholesale greeting card accounts. I'm going to go with that my insides feel sparkily lately so it's showing up on the outside.

now lets boogie.

photo from here

Sister Corita Kent

I have no idea how I've never seen Sister Corita Kent's work. I feel like someone has been hiding it from me all this time. It's both a thrill to find new / old art that I love and also sadness that I have been without it for so long. It's a little bit of a feeling of being kept from the cool kids. Her hand drawn type feels so modern to me and notably her splashy colors. I'm in art love. I was also thrilled to learn she attended Otis college of art and design where I've done some of my studies.

Sister Mary Corita Kent, was born Frances Elizabeth Kent in Fort Dodge, Iowa.^[1] Kent was an artist and an educator who worked in Los Angeles and Boston. She worked almost exclusively with silkscreen and serigraphy, helping to establish it as a fine art medium. Her artwork, with its messages of love and peace, was particularly popular during the social upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s.^[2] Kent designed the 1985 United States Postal Service annual "love" stamp.^[3]

After high school, Upon entering the Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Los Angeles in 1936 Kent took the name Sister Mary Corita.^[4] She took classes at Otis (now Otis College of Art and Design) and Chouinard Art Institute and earned her BA from Immaculate Heart College in 1941.^[5] She earned her MA at the University of Southern California in Art History in 1951.^[6] Between 1938 and 1968 Kent lived and worked in the Immaculate Heart Community.^[7] She taught in the Immaculate Heart College and was the chairman of its art department. She left the order in 1968 and moved to Boston, where she devoted herself to making art. She died of cancer in 1986

tiny gardner

we planted tomatoes late this season and here are the fruits of our labor. Just call me the tiny gardner.

#citylivin'

New In The Studio - That New Baby Smell

I can't tell you how much I love kissing neck creases. Let me squeeze on your little person and I'll go straight there.

new in the shop - the perfect new baby card

available here

New In The Studio

I needed a card for an upcoming wedding we're going to. I love when I can create something for my own needs, I feel like it has an authentic use then I guess.

baby shower, wedding, engagement, new job. Hand drawn script, letterpresses with bright yellow ink.

available in the shop

Shark Week

gear geared up for Shark Week over at the store!

RIP David Weidman

I'm sad to report that Artist David Weidman passed away. I feel so privileaged that I had the opportunity to meet such an amazing print maker last summer. He was a very good flirt! I had him autograph his out of print book and I bought one of his abstract prints. 

He's had a number of his prints featured on Mad Men in the past few seasons [office art]

and a resurgence from the mid century modern fans. 

If you're interested in some of the last prints available you can find them here in Long Beach at Inretrospect on 4th street. I believe they are only one of two stores to sell his work.

His little bird series always made me giggle but his abstracts are where my heart is.

My husband says, I have no idea what it is, but she loves it so there ya go.

xo