Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Looking Towards 2018 with Paper Owl Artists

2018 is shaping up to be a big year for Paper Owl Artists.   January has us facilitating a Happy Mail Workshop at Jaffe Center for Book Arts.  The workshop will be alot of fun with more than enough projects and goodies to fill the day.  Registration is already full but perhaps another will be scheduled for the Spring. 

February we'll participate in the Jaffe Center's Maker's Marketplace, one of our most favorite events.  A great venue, exceptional vendors, fabulous visitors (and buyers), and always yummy donuts and coffee.  We'll be spending time in January making new cards to add to our current selection.  If you're in the Boca Raton, FL area, please plan to visit.  We'll post more information about the event as it gets closer.

In case you haven't seen one of Jeff's handmade journals, you don't know what you're missing.  They're beautiful.  Each one is a treat to hold in your hand, let alone write or sketch in.  I'm trying to convince him to leave his full-time job to make journals but he likes his job (and paycheck) too much to listen to me.  However, he will be making more journals in 2018.  They'll be available in our Etsy shop throughout 2018 along with our greeting cards and paper collages.

As for me, I'll be continuing to work on paper collage cards and am also developing a new "line" of watercolor cards.  I've loved watercolor for the longest time.  2018 is my year to work with it.  I am NOT an artist, abstract art is my most comfortable medium so you can expect to be some interesting and uplifting cards this coming year.

Why do Jeff and I have such an attachment to making greeting cards?  For one thing, they're fun and meaningful to make and send to people we know.  We also think it's important to express our creativity.  It's also satisfying to us when people purchase our cards  Cards, whether store bought or handmade, are a way for people to connect and communicate with one another. In today's high tech world of email, texting, and Facebook and Twitter postings, we believe our world is losing the ability and feeling of emotionals and  tactile human connection. Greeting cards are just one way of providing this connection.

We hope you'll continue following us throughout 2018.  Let us know what kinds of cards you'd like us to make.  Visit (and support :-) our Etsy shop .  Make a heartfelt intention and commitment to send or give  just one card (or letter) to someone you know.  More would be even better!  Whether it be for a birthday, anniversary, get well, sympathy, or just to say hello, I promise you that you will touch the recipients heart and soul.  And who knows, you might even receive one in return!