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We here at 55 Hi's are all about keeping it as honest as possible, so sometimes telling the whole truth about how much you like someone is gonna have to include sprinkles or bacon. 

Each card is a 2-color screen print on white 100% recycled Mr. French Whitewash paper. They are blank on the inside to write your message and come with a matching accent envelope. Check out the Happy Bacon or Happy Sprinkles posts to pick one up.

We're very excited to release our newest coaster set titled The Cheers Coasters. The set of 6 celebratory drinking aids are made to wish happy tidings in 6 different languages. Each coaster is a one color metallic silver screenprint on duplexed extra thick black card stock. Each coaster is edge colored a bright teal. 

We also worked up a fun giftable packaging for the coasters. Custom Kraft envelopes with a metallic 55 Hi's envelope liner. 

So many fun thing planned for the coming months but as always, we like to keep a steady flow of new cards comin at ya. We just released our two newest ones, a Thank You card and a brand sparkling new Happy Birthday card. The Happy Birthday card was another brush pen inspired piece. Below is one of the earlier versions of the sketch that we posted to our Instagram.

We are gearing up for a whole bunch of new items. Notepads, alphabet posters, birthday calendars, calendars, gift wrap! We just recently had a poll on our Facebook page asking everyone what theme our first alphabet print should be and it seems like Space won! Brad Woodard, the designer behind our amazing New Arrival cards, is teaming up with us again for this project and I'm sure it's gonna rock. 

Got out the old Tombow brush pen for our latest Congratulations Card. Here's a little behind the scenes process of how our more hand-done style cards come about. This is the pretty later version, perhaps next time I'll include the 400 versions prior to this that looked like horse shit. 

Check out more pictures in the shop listing right here.

The 2013 National Stationery Show proved to be quite an experience for us this year. After many months of planning (i.e. stressing) we completed our debut show with no major hiccups. After meeting quite a few amazing people and making some awesome new paper friends, we even managed to trick some people into letting us put our cards in their stores. 

Here's a couple shots of us setting up our booth. It's actually quite incredible how fast things come together. You look down the aisles and it's just madness everywhere, and then all of a sudden you look up and all the trash is gone and the carpet is down and it's just a sea of amazing mini 10x10 stores. The below images are of us putting down the foam tiles and painting the walls. Then, with the help of our trusty laser level, we threw up the shelves one at a time. By "we" I mean I put my friends to work, took some pictures and went to the bar. 

Here is a panorama or our booth after setup and the digital render. Pretty damn close! We ditched the carpet and the plants and I accidentally made 7 instead of 8 shelves, but as in all trade/craft shows, just deal with it and move on. Nobody knows it's wrong except you. Although now, you all know, so perhaps that isn't always true. That saying should read "Nobody knows it's wrong except you unless you write a blog post about it afterwards." 

You would think, standing in the same booth from 9-6 for 3 straight days, I would have taken some pictures, but you overestimate me. I totally didn't, so I went ahead and stole pictures of my own booth from Nole over at Oh So Beautiful Paper. She has some really tremendous event coverage if you're into that kind of thing and she stopped by at the show and took some great pictures of our booth.

Below are a few new notecard designs for us. The Hello & Hi Bubbles which are now up in the shop. 

We also recently published a nifty little feature to the 55 Hi's website. It is a store locator to find local shops that carry our items! After the show we realized we wanted to be able to point people to the stores who are awesome enough to carry our items so we crafted the 55 Hi's Store Locator. It is a constantly growing Google-Maps-style store key that lets you know which stores are carrying our goods if you need a last minute card from us. 

One week until The National Stationery show and it's all finally coming together after months of planning. We contacted our friends over at Tinkering Monkey to help us out with some signage for our booth and they came through big time. We're going to be holding it down in booth #1868.

Since all of our prints are moving towards a strictly limited edition nature, we will only be bringing the coasters and cards to this event in hopes that we can bring some of our goods to stores near you this year. The site will soon have a section listing stores that carry our products in an effort to build a little community up in here. It's always better with friends and if you happen to have a store that you think might be a good fit for us, please let us know and we'll badger them constantly until they are forced to carry our stuff and we will tell them it's all your fault.

Want a sneak peak of the booth? We have a 10x10 inline booth this year and being obsessive compulsive like I am, I did a digital mockup and some real size measuring in illustrator so setup goes a little faster. Here's what we're aiming for. The mockup is a little deceiving though cause the walls are ten feet tall. 

Amongst all this madness, we also just released an Anchorman inspired greeting card and a new print from guest designer Luke Ritchie. 

We're happy to introduce the latest addition to the shop, a gold on black, limited-edition, 8x24 screenprint featuring the motto "Live The Life You Love" from guest typographer, Luke Ritchie. Each print is hand numbered in a limited edition run of 300.

Following the coat tails of last year's vastly succesful release "The Letters Poster", this year we decided to follow suit for those more partial to numbers with a pair of prints appropriately titled "The Numbers Posters."

Above is the first variation featuring a majority of the numbers co-collaborator Michael Spitz and I created for these posters. Below are the letters all neatly organized in rows without any styling. 

Each poster is an 18x24 screenprint hand-numbered in a limited edition run of 300.