Petal People Press is a woman-owned business creating a line of whimsical botanical notecards that delight and tickle. These colorful, playful designs begin in my garden in Saratoga Springs, NY, where I grow flowers, ferns and leaves. (I will admit to sometimes snatching them from road sides and fields.) I pick the botanicals at the height of color and press them for many weeks. Once dried, I arrange them into fanciful designs. A local press scans the artwork and then digitally prints it onto creamy Forest Stewardship Council-certified card stock.
I draw inspiration from the colors, textures and shapes of nature to create an unconventional greeting card that customers have called joyful, playful, whimsical, fanciful and breezy. They are blank inside for your thoughtful message, and can be used for all seasons and all reasons. I aim to create not just a special notecard but a little piece of art. I hope you feel the joy and wonder in everything I make!
~ Martha, owner and creator
ABOUT ME
My father gasped when I showed him “some weird-looking flowers” that I had picked from deep in the woods. They turned out to be endangered Lady’s Slippers, so pink and sweet-smelling in the earthy forest that no little girl would have passed them by. Cradling them in my palms, I gently placed them into the pages of the fattest book I found so that, once pressed, I could examine their curious bulbous shape.
And so began my fascination with pressing flowers. That was more than, er, four decades ago and I haven’t stopped being intrigued and inspired by the colors, shapes and textures of botanicals and incorporating them into my artwork. No part is drawn, painted or computer enhanced. It's just the botanicals.
Mother Nature ... but with a whole lot more personality!
I draw inspiration from the colors, textures and shapes of nature to create an unconventional greeting card that customers have called joyful, playful, whimsical, fanciful and breezy. They are blank inside for your thoughtful message, and can be used for all seasons and all reasons. I aim to create not just a special notecard but a little piece of art. I hope you feel the joy and wonder in everything I make!
~ Martha, owner and creator
ABOUT ME
My father gasped when I showed him “some weird-looking flowers” that I had picked from deep in the woods. They turned out to be endangered Lady’s Slippers, so pink and sweet-smelling in the earthy forest that no little girl would have passed them by. Cradling them in my palms, I gently placed them into the pages of the fattest book I found so that, once pressed, I could examine their curious bulbous shape.
And so began my fascination with pressing flowers. That was more than, er, four decades ago and I haven’t stopped being intrigued and inspired by the colors, shapes and textures of botanicals and incorporating them into my artwork. No part is drawn, painted or computer enhanced. It's just the botanicals.
Mother Nature ... but with a whole lot more personality!