Letterpress Birthday Candle Card – Eco-Friendly, Tree-Free Cotton Paper
- Price
- $6.50
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.
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- Impact: For every order we offset 7kgs of CO2 and rescue 2 plastic bottles from the Ocean. Check our impact here
Environmental Impact
Our efforts to reduce our CO2 emissions generated by the sending of your orders mean that today Clozist is Carbon Positive on its shipments.
With the help of Greenspark we voluntarily offset 7kg of CO2 and remove 2 plastic bottles from the oceans with each order at no extra cost to you.
Why 7kgs (15.43 lb)?
We took the average Carbon Emission of a 2lb package ground sent from NYC to LA and multiply that number by 4.
Why 2 bottles?
Millions of plastic bottles pollute our oceans every year, two standard bottles are a daily recommended water intake. We're committed to cleaning them up.
About Helen Edna
Shipping & Delivery
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