This card design was adapted from one of the spreads in our wedding album by Noteworthy Designs in Marietta, Georgia. It is a #10 sized, 3-layer card to be used for a Bat Mitzvah invitation. The colors and design are very pretty and feminine and very well suited for this special event. If you click on the photo to enlarge it, you can view the detail of the motif and the textures of the paper choices. Enjoy!
-Lindsay
Today's hot card is actually a hot color mock-up. What's a color mock-up, you ask? Well, if you're having a hard time visualizing a card (something that happens to all of us at some point in our lives), we can make a full-size example of the card. It's a pretty cool way to make sure you're getting exactly what you or your customer wants.
So, in the little snack box in our kitchen that's replenished every few weeks by a mysterious man, we found these chips. We understand most snack foods; that's what most of us subsist on. But ketchup chips? Huh? Who asked for these? For what it's worth, we're too scared to try them. Are they any good? Please let us know in the "Comments" section.
That said, an off-the-cuff conversation in the proofing department about the pros and cons of online dating turned into a full-blown symposium during lunch, and it was held at the prestigious stone picnic table outside our offices. (You can see a flyer created by proofreader Ted above.) Experiences were shared, snacks were consumed, and we all learned a lot about each other for about 15 minutes, before we forgot about online dating and started gossiping about the co-workers that weren’t there.
Anyway, as Pat Benatar once said, “Love is a battlefield.” Indeed!
-- Rob @ L.V.
Today's hot card is from Yellow Bird in Wilmette, Illinois. It's from the new wedding update and features even more of our bitchin' custom cuts and metallic papers.
As you may have gathered from the title of this blog entry, Rob has the day off. So I'm standing in for him to provide you with another edition of our HCOTD series. That means I get to write whatever I want and Rob can't stop me (until he gets back on Tuesday). Anyway, today's Hot Card is from Papers Plus in Pikesville, Maryland. This particular design is actually a pretty popular one from our Bar/Bat Mitzvah book, but what makes this card exceptionally hot is the color scheme. For the past couple of months we've had more requests for combinations of Orchid, Beet, and/or Grass paper than ever before (see last Friday's Hot Card for another great example). I absolutely love, LOVE these colors (plus I helped make this card) and have thus dubbed it "HCOTD". Enjoy!
This stunning card comes from Ann Fiedler Creations in Beverly Hills, California. It's for a wedding in Israel, and if anyone tells you we don't know our Hebrew, they ain't seen this card.
While we all here at Luscious Verde take an awful lot from the world, we always try to give something back to the community (not, say, to the honor-system snack box in the kitchen). And to do so, we happily donate unused, leftover, and discontinued papers to school districts and preschool programs.
Shown above are a few pictures from Tina Williams’ classes at Berea Community Elementary in
(P.S. This is not actually a nefarious plan to train a young army of production artists.)
-- Rob @ L.V.
Today's hot card, shown as it appears in nature, is from In Paper in Boca Raton, Florida. This is a pretty popular design, but instead of changing around the paper colors, the sizing was changed. Just another way to subtly personalize a design for your specific event. You can have it your way, like Burger King. (Note to self: Don't write the hot card description when you're hungry.)
While it doesn’t require heavy lifting or excavating precious artifacts from within booby-trapped Mayan temples, answering the phones at a small business can still sometimes be a slightly taxing experience. But what turns an interesting and enjoyable job into one that’s not are those few times a day when we get straight-up bizarre prank calls or wrong numbers.
Sometimes it’s a person asking for the Case Western statistics department, and sometimes it’s an inebriated teenager saying “I love you” at 10-second intervals for two minutes straight. For you other small-business owners and workers, here are some tips I’ve heard about dealing with misguided phone trolls. Have any other tips or tricks? Leave ‘em in the comments.
-- If they ask what your company does, say that you perform embalming and taxidermy services for house pets.
-- Always have a Megadeth CD on pause at loud volume for quick and painful retaliation
-- Give caller to office’s designated long-winded talker. Watch a friendship blossom.
-- If all else fails, ask to be put on their do-not-call list. If you haven’t already, sign up for the national one here.
-- Rob @ L.V.
This is a design from our newest wedding update, modified for a Bar Mitzvah. It utilizes our new ply technology with metallic and dark papers, and the envelope liner is a customized version of our pattern "Wobble Dots."
For our summer promotion, we’re not doing anything silly like sending out teddy bears to retailers or driving to each store personally in our Luscious Verde Party Wagon to hand out extra coffee mugs. This month, it’s Win a Date with Jesse.
Jesse’s our handyman, our jack of all trades, and the women of Luscious Verde have nothing but, uh, words to say about him.
“When I used to carpool with Jesse, he stopped at Giant Eagle once to buy groceries to make dinner for his girlfriend. He’s a catch.” – Alicia, proofreader
“I look forward to his daily high-fives and droll, slightly offensive comments.” – Liz, operations manager
“He’s everything you would want in a man. You’d be silly not to enter this contest.” – Rue McClanahan, “The Golden Girls”
So, he’s got a questionable sense of humor, he cooks, and he knows how to put together a mean card. What else do you want? Leave at least one paragraph in the comment section below about why we should choose you. The “winner” will be chosen when we feel like it, probably by the end of July, or if we get bored sooner. Thanks!
-- Chuck Woolery @ L.V.
This handsome card comes to us all the way from Noteworthy Notes in Chicago, Illinois, hometown of our operations manager, Liz. It's a modified design from our correspondence book, and we have to say that we think it looks pretty good. (I guess that's obvious, because we wouldn't pick it for Hot Card of the Day if it wasn't.)
Ask anyone at Luscious Verde about production artist Laura, and a lot of adjectives come to mind: uplifting, enthusiastic, helpful, and…brawny. Yes, brawny. Her stature belies her tightly-wound ability to take almost anyone here down to the Pain Store when it comes to arm-wrestling matches.
This toughness was born in
Majoring in art education (she “had a lot of fun” in college but says she “was a good girl”), she got a job as a K-12 substitute teacher in her hometown, and did that for a few years. However, she lost her passion for teaching and went looking for a job that utilized her craftiness.
She started at Luscious Verde a year ago and has charmed and helped everyone she works with. “I help a lot of departments out by gathering supplies and doing pretty much whatever they want me to do,” she says.
In her free time, she likes singing, going to plays, and hanging out with her fella, Jordan. Her advice for any aspiring Lauras out there: “There’s a purpose out there for you and you need to find it.” It’s just that positive attitude that makes her a joy to work with. But we try not to make her mad. She might destroy us with her arms of steel.
ALL ABOUT LAURA
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Breyer’s Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough with M&M’s (“the only Breyer’s ice cream I like”)
Favorite Day of the Week, and Why: “Monday – I get excited about a new week. I don’t know what to expect.”
Favorite Channel: MTV
Favorite Canned Food: Pineapple
Favorite L.V. Paper Color: Rust Confetti
-- Rob @ L.V.
