Often when clients discuss their personalized stationery with us, we try to encourage them to include a motif or image that represents them. Sometimes this will be something related to their job (a pen and inkpot for a writer or a hammer and nails for someone who works in construction or woodwork). Or, it might be something more related to their hobbies (a camera for someone interested in photography perhaps).We love these notecards because the client has chosen an image which literally captures one of his defining accessories: a pair of bold glasses! Teamed with a bright lined envelopes these are just super.

- Jana

We think Valentine's Day is the perfect excuse to remind the people you care about just how much you care about them! Valentine's cards don't have to just be for a single loved one. We love sending mini-notecards out to our closest friends and family.

There's nothing nicer than receiving a nice handwritten note and February 14th is an especially perfect day to open up the mailbox and find something good waiting!

With this in mind, we designed and printed these luxury notecards sets:

Just right for Valentine's Day...but equally good for the rest of the year!

They can be purchased directly from our online shop by clicking here.

It's that time in the year when I am resolving to become more organized and to stay on top of personal admin. A lot of our clients seem to have the same idea: they are getting in touch with us to order personal notecards and business cards. January is the perfect time to get your stationery needs in order and make sure you have printed items for the year ahead!So, I'm going to be posting a few blogs about some of the notecard designs we printed in 2012...starting with these gorgeous cards which feature a stunning decorative border.

The black ink looks so sharp and was the perfect complement to envelopes lined in a gorgeous pale green color.

Stay tuned for more notecard ideas...

- Jana

We were thrilled to be featured on one of our favorite websites, in a countdown to Halloween. We love any excuse to print holiday products and this spooky selection are the perfect accessories for a party on October 31!

Thank you Angela at Shelterrific - check out the post here.

I love traditional still life paintings with rich and moody colors. Our newest line of cards is inspired by this admiration. We've taken vintage etchings and experimented with coloring details of the pictures (having a five year old daughter, I spend a fair amount of time coloring in pictures...). We settled on a pairing of ultra bright ink for the detail painting and then darker grays for the overlaying images. We're always looking to link our love of 19th Century everything with 21st Century style.

We've been so busy this Spring with wedding invitations, note cards and designing and printing our new items that we've neglected the blog for a while. Now that our Spring line is finished, we're finally getting a chance to show what we've been working on. We're particularly excited about our journals. We printed 6 cover designs on beautiful Fabriano paper and had them perfect bound at a bindery around the corner from our studio in Brooklyn. It is a little more expensive to produce things here in New York City but we like to be able to support other local manufacturing businesses and the quality is so nice when someone is making and checking each piece by hand.  Here are some images of the new books.

We're always trying to develop stationery that appeals to men (or that will appeal to women who are shopping for gifts for men).  Don't guys have to send thank you notes too?  We've given everyone we know more stationery than they probably know what to do with, but we think these cards would be nice for all the guys who do not have sets of Sesame Letterpress note cards yet!  (Available online at Sesame Letterpress Stationery Sets)(photos by Jen Causey)

We love old books and essays on the etiquette of letter writing. Here is one of our favorite quotes:"To be a really good correspondent is truly an art, perhaps first of all a gift, to be cultivated and developed. One may in spite of every effort still fall short of that goal, but it is always possible to give pleasure by a simple written note or letter, couched in good English and written on stationery that is not only correct but indicative of personal taste."

Being stationers, we think everyone should have a nice box of personal stationery on hand and if the box itself is pretty, we're more inspired to use the cards inside!