Monday January 22, 2024

❤️ Valentine’s Day greeting cards

When you can’t find the words to express your feelings, a well chosen card can help. There’s no need to buy mass a produced greeting when there are so many locally- and Canadian-made options out there.

  1. The sharp graphics come with a food focus at Cara Bare Designs (Ottawa)
     
  2. Ritual & Fern cards use designs of coffee, plants, and food to deliver messages of love (Ottawa)
     
  3. Lori Langille’s lush fine art cards, post cards, and prints might possibly bring the onset of swooning (Ottawa)
     
  4. The cards by Wilde Juniper Art are cheerful, mostly water colour greetings with a lot of heart (Ottawa)
     
  5. The Love Ur Guts card by Party Mountain Paper company says it all, really (Hamilton)
     
  6. Those who prefer a more understated declaration of love might choose the You’ll Do greeting by Badger & Burke (Vancouver)
     
  7. You’ll find cute puns and cosy graphics for days at Pedaller Designs (Calgary)
     
  8. Keep it real with Carolyndraws cards - ‘Wanna Hang Out Zero Feet Apart?’ (Toronto)
     
  9. Make your own card at the Ottawa School of Art’s Letterpress Valentine’s Day Card Intro workshop on February 3.
     
  10. You can also hand craft a greeting card at Hintonburg Public House’s Valentine’s Day Card Collage Workshop on Thursday, February 8. Make as many cards as you wish at $8 a pop. All materials will be provided.

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