A cornucopia of fabulous cards

Dear Everyone ~

The British are, in a word, brill about papery pleasures. Perhaps because England was the first country to have postage stamps (1840, with the U.S. following in 1847). Whatever the origins of this British epistolary epiphany, the inspirations and innovations continue. We have restocked cards and notebooks and cards and envelopes and cards from a quartet of our favourite artists from across the pond. Make a splash!

Kiran Ravilious is an artist in the U.K. whose work I’ve followed—& drooled over—for many moons. In the early-ish days of BZS, we stocked her notecards & notebooks. We have long longed to restock them, and the moment—and the glorious shipment—has arrived! Kiran creates new designs every season, and they are perennially enchanting and enticing.

We begin with an octet of pocket-sized notebooks. Measuring 4⅛ x 5¾, they are staple-bound, and their interior 24 pages are a lovely natural white. The covers are delightfully heavy, and their patterns extend across the back. Nota bene: The notebooks are exactly the height of a Le Pen, so indulge your penchant for colour coordinated writing accessories. Clip, clip.

In the notecard department, two sets of six notecards await: Tutti-frutti (a Kiran classic) and Flora Scallopini (a charming vase and blooms, in a trio of colourways). Cards measure 4⅛ x 5¾, and come with a Euro-kraft envelope. The card stock itself is warm in tone and super-smooth to the touch. The inks sit vibrantly atop the matte finish.

 We’re also stocking ten Kiran notecards sold individually, so you can assemble your own cache. Same pretty proportions, same luscious cardstock, same krafty envelopes.

Moving down to the southwestern coast (figuratively speaking), we have replenished the original three British Seaweed Postcard Portfolios from Molesworth & Bird. And we’ve added their newest set, seaweeds collected on the Isles of Scilly (pronounced silly, not skill-y). The Silly set of twelve postcards is of course presented in Molesworth & Bird’s charming reusable portfoli-ette with string-and-button closure. We’ve also stocked the set of eight Silly notecards, which fold over at the top and likewise reside in their own portfoli-ette. 

 We’ve refreshed our offering of Cambridge Imprint envelopes & postcards with six new envelope patterns and six postcards with complementary botanical borders.

But wait, there’s these! Three new whimsical notecards by Hadley Paper Goods. And we’ve restocked Fruit Salad, a set of ten enclosure cards with envelopes in a sweet box (handy for rogue postage, wild washi, and petite pencils).