Send birthday wishes with something that feels genuinely special. This letterpress birthday candle card from Helen Edna is hand-printed on 100% cotton, tree-free paper using a vintage Golding Pearl platen press from the early 1900s — no electricity required. It's a thoughtful, sustainable greeting card that stands apart from anything you'd find at a big-box store, and it makes a beautiful gift on its own.
✨ Features
- 🕯️ Candle design with hidden message: The handwritten words forming the candle read "happy birthday" — a lovely detail to discover.
- 📐 A2 size: 4¼" x 5½" when folded — a classic greeting card size that fits standard frames too.
- 📝 Blank interior: Plenty of room to write your own personal message.
- ✉️ Comes ready to send: Paired with a pool colour euro flap envelope and presented inside a cello sleeve.
- 🖨️ Letterpress printed: Pressed on a Golding Pearl platen press from the early 1900s for that distinctive, tactile impression.
- ✂️ Hand-cut: Trimmed on a vintage Chandler and Price Guillotine cutter — no modern machinery involved.
🌿 Benefits
- ♻️ Genuinely sustainable: Printed with soy and linseed inks on 100% cotton, tree-free paper — a card you can feel good about sending.
- 🇺🇸 Made in the USA: Recycled paper envelopes sourced and made in the United States.
- 🎁 A gift in itself: The quality and craftsmanship make this card worth keeping, not just reading and recycling.
- 🤍 One of a kind: Each print is subtly unique — slight variations in ink colour, saturation, impression, and position are part of what makes letterpress printing so special.
- 🌱 Low-impact process: Printed without electricity, using antique presses that have been in use for over a century.
📋 Product Specifications
- Size: A2 — 4¼" x 5½" folded
- Interior: Blank
- Paper: 100% cotton, tree-free
- Inks: Soy and linseed
- Envelope: Pool colour euro flap, recycled paper, made in the USA
- Packaging: Cello sleeve
- Printing method: Letterpress — Golding Pearl platen press (early 1900s)
- Cutting method: Chandler and Price Guillotine cutter (early 1900s)
- Vendor: Helen Edna
- Made in: California, USA
Please note: because each card is letterpress printed by hand, there may be subtle differences in ink colour, saturation, impression, and position. This is a natural part of the process — not a flaw.
Add the Helen Edna Letterpress Birthday Candle Card to your order today — for a birthday gift that's as thoughtful to the planet as it is to the person receiving it.