Birthdays are the time to celebrate good living and relish the companionship of your special friends or relatives, and what better way to do so than with deliciously witty and gorgeously tactile letterpress birthday greeting cards from Hello!Lucky.

Hello!Lucky's birthday greeting cards are lovingly crafted on vintage Heidelberg printing presses, and are a simple ode to good things. Beautiful, intricate and unique, Hello!Lucky birthday greeting cards strike just the right balance between luxury and humor, and reflect your heartfelt appreciation for the recipient.

Our design team has created birthday greeting cards for everyone on your list, including whimsical retro birthday greeting cards for the young or young-at-heart, birthday greeting cards featuring our ever-popular sock monkeys, witty birthday greeting cards for more mature recipients and those with a wicked sense of humor, and even birthday greeting cards that strike the perfect balance between masculine charm and refinement for all the men (and boys) in your life. Why send Hello!Lucky birthday greeting cards?

The best reason to send Hello!Lucky birthday greeting cards is that will almost certainly bring a genuine smile to your recipient's face and show your heartfelt appreciation. Hello!Lucky birthday greeting cards are gifts in and of themselves. Handcrafted by artisans using old-school techniques and printed in small quantities, the quality and craftsmanship of Hello!Lucky birthday greeting cards can be sensed at first glance and furthermore at first touch.

When you combine exquisite workmanship with Hello!Lucky's gorgeous designs and illustrations, the result is birthday greeting cards that the recipient will never forget (and maybe even never throw away!).

At Hello!Lucky, we relish goods that are simple, beautiful, intricate, and unique. Our birthday greeting cards combine these elements with a luxurious, tactile charm. Each piece stimulates the senses with its crisp impression of the letterpress plate into soft, velvety paper, and its vivid, saturated colors. Sending letterpress birthday greeting cards from Hello!Lucky is quite simply one of life's little luxuries.

In a world where mass production is on the rise and our environment is ever so fragile, it is all the more important to choose our goods wisely. Hello!Lucky's birthday greeting cards, printed on 30% post-consumer waste recycled paper, are a responsible, thoughtful choice Ð the labor involved makes them a treasured keep-sake, not a throw-away item. Once our birthday greeting cards are fully appreciated, they can and should be recycled.

What makes letterpress birthday greeting cards so special and high quality?

Letterpress is a small-scale tradition that is carried out by local artists, bringing to mind the horse-and-buggy days when life was slower and simpler. The craft, care and labor involved in creating our letterpress printed birthday greeting cards is unparalleled by any the vast array of mass-produced birthday greeting cards available today. Furthermore, our birthday greeting cards are printed locally so by purchasing our birthday greeting cards you are supporting local craftspeople who work under humane conditions and do so out of a pure love of their craft.

Letterpress is a craft that takes many years to perfect Ð at Hello!Lucky, we learned the techniques directly from master craftsmen (and yes, they are mostly men), and have been practicing and perfecting the techniques year-in and year-out since our modest beginnings.

Hello!Lucky letterpress birthday greeting cards begin with a simple inspiration, often one that makes us laugh out loud. Our designers then sketch and refine our birthday greeting cards, then send them to our printers to make plates, one for each color, in which the illustration is forged into relief. Next, our printers ink their vintage presses and letterpress print each color separately, fitting the layers together. Hello!Lucky's letterpress printed birthday greeting cards are each subtly different, a true reflection of the artists who helped create it.

Ordering your Hello!Lucky birthday greeting cards

To order your birthday greeting cards, just visit our website and browse collection. Your order will be dispatched within 3-5 business days, and rush shipping is available if needed. We encourage you to save on shipping costs by ordering several birthday greeting cards at once; this way you'll also never be without a perfect card when you need one! Our gorgeous thank you notes and stationery sets also make wonderful birthday gifts. For questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at 415-355-0008 (US) or 7771 931101 (UK) or info@hellolucky.com. We'd love to hear from you!