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This month, our featured artist is Kat Gottlieb, whose design, "Wind Beneath My Wings" is featured on the cover of our Spring catalog. 

This month's artist feature is Leigh Standley of Curly Girl Design. We partnered with Curly Girl Design in 2020. Since then, Leigh has won several awards for her combination of outstanding writing and whimsical imagery to create lovely and meaningful greeting cards. 

This month, our featured artist is Maren Devine, whose design "Moonlit Christmas" became our best-selling Holiday boxed card ever in 2022!

This month's Featured Artist is Emily Hauck, whose design "Wild Swimming" is featured on the cover of our May 2023 Supplement. 

This month's Featured Artist is Hilary Mueller, a painter born and raised in the Midwest, inspired by nature, music and the enjoyment of everyday things.

This month's Featured Artist is Stephanie Dyment, an award-winning UK artist whose style embraces pastels, floral and femininity.

This month's Featured Artist is Hanna Melin, who frequently features illustrations of quirky animals, especially guinea pigs!, in her designs. 

This month's featured artist is Ginger Deverell, a Canadian artist inspired by bohemian and vintage aesthetics, Eastern cultures, childlike wonder of flora and fauna and of course, pink! 

This month's featured artist is Claire McElfatrick, known for using bold colors and patterns in her work inspired by flora and fauna. 

This month's Featured Artist is Claire Henley, who creatively captures the essence of the English coastline in her work.

Learn more about Gabby Malpas, a watercolor artist whose design, 'Hibiscus', is featured on the front cover of our January 2022 catalog!

Maureen Flynn is a new artist for Calypso Cards. She has over a dozen featured designs in our January release, each one simple yet unique; delicate yet strong. 

Introducing tips for retailers! 

At Calypso Cards, we would very much like to move away from plastic sleeves, and as a first step we are offering our 2022 Spring Seasonal release unsleeved or sleeved.

Katherine of @spacefrogdesigns’ passion for nature is at the core of her work. Her distinctive style, completed with inspirational text, has led to a collection of best-selling greeting cards.

Vinaya is an engineer turned artist now living in Sydney, Australia. She hopes her delicate floral watercolors bring the viewer calm, happiness, grace and peace.

Meet our new artist, Valerie Khoo, from Sydney, Australia!

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! More than ever this year people are looking for cards to send to friends and family, not just their significant other. We have a good selection! Take a look at our video highlighting some of these!

We are impressed with the creative ways you are supporting your customers, your vendors and yourselves – because we are all in this together – and we thought it might be helpful to share what some other retailers are doing. We will keep this blog updated as we hear of more ideas.

Natalie Alexander is a graphic artist turned illustrator who currently resides in Leeds in the UK. We are happy to include her fun, colorful designs on our cards!

Thinking of You Week is almost here, September 21-27, 2020! The USPS is once again supporting the event with a Thinking of You postmark on every piece of first class mail for the month of September! Keep an eye out for it as you receive your mail!

Calypso Cards is delighted to welcome Deb Hudson to our international team of artists! Deb brings us her bright cheerful artwork from Melbourne, Australia.

Cally’s designs are created in her seaside cottage studio in Northumberland, North East England. Beach walks with Jasper the Chihuahua and a daily yoga practice help to inspire her creations. She now has an impressive Instagram following and hopes to spread kindness and a joy of life through her thoughtful words and friendly artwork.