It's time to relish another year of living with your special friend or relative, and what better way than with a deliciously witty and gorgeously tactile letterpress birthday card from Hello!Lucky.

Hello!Lucky's birthday card designs are lovingly crafted on vintage presses, and are a simple ode to good things. Simple, beautiful, intricate and unique, a Hello!Lucky birthday card strikes just the right balance between luxury and humor, and reflects your heartfelt appreciation for the recipient.

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

The simple reason to send a Hello!Lucky birthday card is that it will almost certainly bring a smile to your recipient's face and convey your whole-hearted appreciation. A Hello!Lucky birthday card is a gift in and of itself - handcrafted by artisans using old-school techniques and printed in small quantities, the quality and craftsmanship of a Hello!Lucky birthday card can be sensed at first glance and further at first touch.

Combine this exquisite workmanship with Hello!Lucky's gorgeous designs and illustrations, and you have a birthday card that the recipient will never forget (and maybe even never throw away!).

Today, letterpress printing has been rediscovered and updated by contemporary designers, including Hello!Lucky. Despite some advances in letterpress printing technology, letterpress printing remains unaltered and represents an enduring link to one of our most influential traditions. A letterpress printed photo Christmas card is wonderful way to pass on and preserve this worthy craft.

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

In a world where mass production is on the rise and our environment is on the decline, it is all the more important to choose the goods we consume wisely. A Hello!Lucky birthday card, printed on 30% post-consumer waste recycled paper, is a responsible, thoughtful choice - the labor involved makes it a keep-sake, not a throw-away item and once it is fully appreciated, each birthday card can and should be recycled.

What makes a letterpress birthday card 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 simpler and slower. The labor, craft and care involved in creating each letterpress printed birthday card is unparalleled by any other type of mass-produced birthday card available today.

Letterpress is a craft that takes many years to perfect - 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.

Each Hello!Lucky letterpress birthday card starts with a unique inspiration, often one that makes us laugh out loud. Each birthday card is then rendered, refined and made into plates, one for each color, in which the design is cast into relief. Next, our printers, skilled artists, ink their presses and letterpress print each color separately, fitting the layers together. Each of letterpress printed birthday card created by Hello!Lucky is subtly different, a true reflection of the artists who helped create it.

Ordering a Hello!Lucky birthday card

Ordering a birthday card is simple - just visit our website and browse our birthday card collection. We encourage you to save on shipping costs by ordering more than one; this way you'll also never be without a perfect birthday card just when you need one! 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!