From now until Valentine’s Day (whilst stocks last) we’re includ­ing one of these gor­geous hand­made cards with every pur­chase of one of Coulson Macleod’s love-related typo­graphic prints. The hand­made card has been designed exclus­ively for Coulson Macleod by Ruby Wren.

Each heart has been indi­vidu­ally cut by hand from wild­flower seed paper. A true labour of love.

So when you’ve fin­ished with your card you can plant it and wait for the flowers to grow. Lit­er­ally watch your love blossom.

And this is what you could be growing…

• Pretty yel­low Birds­foot Tre­foil, Black Medick, and Meadow Buttercup.
• Red Cam­pion.
• White Cam­pion.
• Purple thistle-like Black Knap­weed and purple Self­heal, a mem­ber of the mint family.
• Feath­ery foliaged Yarrow.
• Watch the leaves of your Com­mon Vetch fold at night and attract bees and but­ter­flies with your ice-pink Musk Mallow.
• It was con­sidered lucky to step on an Ox-eye Daisy, the first flower of the year.

And these lush grasses will sprout too…

• Rib­wort Plantain.
• Brown­top Bent.
• Red Fes­cue.
• Cres­ted Dogstail.
• Meadow Fes­cue.
• Smooth Stalk Meadow Grass.

And the C5-sized envel­ope is made from ele­phant poo (and no it doesn’t smell). Oh, and just in case you think we’d slipped up with the cel­lo­phane outer wrap­per, it’s made from corn starch.

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Here’s a little sneak peek at our hand­made wed­ding invitation…

Recycled card­board. String. Hand-stamped tag. Very simple. Very Coulson Macleod.

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Coulson Macleod loves this gor­geous hand­made por­cel­ain by Lind­say Emery of Suite One Stu­dio, North Car­o­lina.

Lind­say makes each piece by hand. Work­ing without moulds so that each piece is com­pletely unique. She even makes her own glazes. Very Coulson Macleod.

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Couple of pieces of rather nice press Coulson Macleod has recently received for our much loved typo­graphic art…

Coun­try Homes & Interi­ors (Octo­ber 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind’ hand­made print. The pan­elled back­board is made from reclaimed wood, which is then hand-painted and over-printed with dis­tressed image and typography.

Hitched (Autumn 2011 issue) fea­tur­ing our ‘I Love You’ hand­made print with a solid oak frame and ‘Solid Like A Rock’ print on solid limestone.

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Nat­alie Stopka cre­ates books. Beau­ti­ful hand­made books.

Nat­alie says she spends her days pulling prints and bind­ing books. Her books are bound with vin­tage fibres, repur­posed and hand dyed fab­rics, and acid free papers. Nat­alie is cur­rently restor­ing a Kel­sey Excel­sior press and learn­ing to use all the presser feet on her great-great aunt’s 1928 Singer.

Nat­alie sells her hand­made books via her Etsy shop Nat­alie. As. Is.

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Nat­ural reclaimed mater­i­als. Check. Typo­graphy. Check. Hand­made. Check. Vin­tage feel. Check. Oh, so very Coulson Macleod.

Intro­du­cing Coulson Macleod’s Curio Col­lec­tion, inspired by old phar­ma­ceut­ical adverts.

For this new vin­tage art col­lec­tion, we’ve used hes­sian, a coarse woven fab­ric made from the veget­able fibre, jute. We’ve wrapped the hes­sian around a block meas­ur­ing 35cm x 35cm just so you know and prin­ted the art­work onto the fab­ric. Then we’ve moun­ted this hes­sian print onto a hand­made frame made from gor­geous reclaimed wood (Vic­torian roof tim­bers to be exact). The inside of the frame is hand-painted white.

This art­work has an unlim­ited print quantity.

We’ve attached a hanging mech­an­ism to the rear of the frame so it’s ready for you to hang on your wall.

And just in case you were think­ing that the wood looked a bit, well, vin­tage. Yep! That’s the way we like it. We pur­pose­fully retain any defects in the tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter of the piece. These can include knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks, so each art­work is totally unique.

Please ‘like’ the Coulson Macleod Face­book page to keep up-to-date with all our spe­cial offers, new col­lec­tions, and giveaways.

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How does £50 off sound to you?

Well, if you join Coulson Macleod’s Face­book page you can access a spe­cial £50 Off Selec­ted Art­work page and pick a typo­graphic print, like one of these…

‘Defin­i­tion Of Romance’ — hand­made solid oak frame

‘I Only Live to Love You’ — hand­made solid oak frame

‘Wilde Blue’ — hand­made from reclaimed roof timbers

‘Wilde Grey’ — hand­made from reclaimed roof timbers

‘Wilde Red’ — hand­made from reclaimed roof timbers

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Coulson Macleod can proudly announce its first col­lab­or­a­tion with…

Ruby Wren.

With every Valentine’s pur­chase of one of our typo­graphic prints, we are includ­ing a hand­made Ruby Wren love card. Each heart has been indi­vidu­ally cut by hand. A true labour of love.

And best of all, this card is exclus­ive to Coulson Macleod.

The card is lov­ingly hand cut from wild­flower seed paper. No, not just any old paper for us. You can actu­ally plant your card in your garden or win­dow box and wait for the flowers to grow in the sum­mer. Lit­er­ally watch your love blos­som each year. How lovely is that?

And this is what you could be growing…

• Pretty yel­low Birds­foot Tre­foil, Black Medick, and Meadow Buttercup.
• Red Cam­pion.
• White Cam­pion.
• Purple thistle-like Black Knap­weed and purple Self­heal, a mem­ber of the mint family.
• Feath­ery foliaged Yarrow.
• Watch the leaves of your Com­mon Vetch fold at night and attract bees and but­ter­flies with your ice-pink Musk Mallow.
• It was con­sidered lucky to step on an Ox-eye Daisy, the first flower of the year.

And these lush grasses will sprout too…

• Rib­wort Plantain.
• Brown­top Bent.
• Red Fes­cue.
• Cres­ted Dogstail.
• Meadow Fes­cue.
• Smooth Stalk Meadow Grass.

And guess what the C5-sized envel­ope is made from?

Ele­phant poo!

Ruby Wren buys this exotic stuff from a small Somerset-based com­pany that make 100% recycled paper in the UK in a tra­di­tional paper mill. They are approved by the National Asso­ci­ation of Paper Mer­chants and are mem­bers of the Brit­ish Asso­ci­ation of Fair Trade Shops.

And just in case you won­der­ing, which I’m guess­ing you are, the envel­opes don’t smell. Ele­phants are herb­i­vores, which means their waste is very clean. So don’t try this at home using poo from say, your dog. And as ele­phant poo is obvi­ously a waste product it will rot very eas­ily. And if that wasn’t enough won­der­ful eco-friendly news, the com­pany who make the ele­phant poo paper sup­port The Mil­len­nium Found­a­tion in Sri Lanka who home and look after old ele­phants. So, by using ele­phant poo paper we’re actu­ally help­ing elephants.

Oh, and just in case you think we’d slipped up with the cel­lo­phane outer wrap­per. It’s made from corn starch.

So, not only are our Valentine’s Day cards free. They are also exclus­ive. They sup­port small local busi­ness. They are envir­on­ment­ally friendly. They save ele­phants. And they are a garden­ing gift. Phew! And of course you’ll get massive Brownie points for being so ori­ginal and thoughtful.

Ruby Wren has been fea­tured in numer­ous magazines includ­ing House Beau­ti­ful and You&Your Wed­ding and you can find their cards sold in the Insti­tute of Con­tem­por­ary Arts in London.

So for good­ness sake, don’t go and buy a shop-bought Valentine’s Day card this year.

Simply type “LOVECARD” into the com­ments box on the check­out page for your free Valentine’s Day card.

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Great art­icle in the Sunday Tele­graph a few weeks back that said we should be very excited, because this sea­son is all about the tra­di­tional, mixed with flea-market finds.

And we love flea-market finds. Which is why at Coulson Macleod we try to recre­ate this with many of our art collections.

Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typography.

The key theme for the autumn/winter 2010 interior is “heir­loom”. The art­icle says we’re crav­ing time­less pieces that will look just as good a dec­ade or two down the line, and retail­ers are grant­ing our wish with hand­made accessor­ies using tra­di­tional fabrics.

Which is exactly what we at Coulson Macleod are doing.

We com­mis­sion local crafts­men to hand­make our dis­tressed typo­graphic prints. We com­bine their tra­di­tional skills with our con­tem­por­ary art. So again, we’re bang on trend!

One of the com­pan­ies high­lighted in the piece is Anta, who we fea­tured back in August. Anta has been a per­sonal love of mine for many years. In fact, here is my col­lec­tion of their slightly wonky, hand­painted, stone­ware mugs…

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Once again Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art has been chosen by interi­ors style bible Elle Dec­or­a­tion to fea­ture in their fab­ulous magazine.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

Elle Dec­or­a­tion chose ‘The Roar of Tree and Crack of Branches’ typo­graphic print from our Winter Trees collection.

We hand make the frame and pan­elled back­board from reclaimed wood. Actu­ally the wood used to be Vic­torian roof tim­bers. How cool is that? We paint the wood and print on top with dis­tressed image and typography.

Each art­work is totally unique. And totally unique to Coulson Macleod.

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