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.

Related art­icles:

• Hand­made Greet­ing Cards by Ruby Wren
• Love Unlim­ited

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.

Related art­icles:

• Coulson Macleod’s Little Love Notes
• Coulson Macleod Cre­ates Far More Than Words

I Don’t Have A Lazy Eye

Able and Game sells quirky cards and sta­tion­ery.  Their cards fea­ture hand drawn designs of weird and won­der­ful people and their Valentine’s col­lec­tion is so much bet­ter than the usual stuff you see.

Able and Game is run by Mel­bourne couple Anna Bland­ford and Gareth Meney.

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