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Artistic Greeting Cards

Communicate.  In style.

Here at Indigo Magic, we passionately encourage the gift of sending a hand-written card to someone in your life.  As vehicles of connection, caring, and self-expression, greeting cards foster the art of relating very meaningful personal communication across time and space.  In this day and age of email and social media, this art form seems to be slowly vanishing.

We feature this select collection of blank greeting cards published by Pomegranate Publications. In the near future, we will be adding a variety of greeting cards from a number of sources, featuring a wide range of artwork and pre-printed messages.
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Yosemite by Albert Bierstadt folio greeting card set
price: $9.95

Possessing a formidable landscape vision, acquired during student years in Dusseldorf, Germany, German-born American artist Albert Bierstadt turned to the American West in 1859, recording scenery on a scale that only his contemporary, Frederic Church, could match.  When Bierstadt arrived in Yosemite in 1863, her found an incomparable artistic resource with a wide range of stunning landscape formations.

Gates of the Yosemite and Cathedral Rocks are small miracles of observation and transcription.  They reduce landscapes of awesome size to a smaller scale, retaining the power and breadth of the original view.

The notecards are reproductions of the paintings from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

This beautiful folio of 5" x 7" notecards contains 10 cards, 5 each of these two designs, and 10 envelopes.  
Bears by Beth Van Hoesen folio greeting card set
price: $9.95

Born in 1926 in Boise, Idaho, artist Beth Van Hoesen graduated from Stanford University and went on to study at the San Francisco Art Institute with abstract expressionist Clyfford Still and figurative painter David Park.  Park became a major influence for Van Hoesen, inspiring her to eschew abstraction for the expressive realism seen in her exquisite floral, still life, and animal studies, such as the two bear portraits included in this notecard selection. 

An acknowledged master of drawing and printmaking, Van Hoesen has exhibited worldwide and is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum; the Art Institute of Chicago;, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and many other major museums. 

This beautiful folio of 5" x 7" notecards contains 10 cards, 5 each of these two designs, and 10 envelopes. 
Day and Night paintings by Edward Robert Hughs folio greeting card set
price: $9.95

A graduate of the Royal Academy and member of the second wave of Pre-Raphaelites, Edward Robert Hughs (1851-1914) participated in his first Academy exhibition when he was only twenty-one or twenty-two.   

Though Hughs was noted for his prolific portraiture, he is best remembered for the type of work represented by these two lovely notecards - Pre-Raphaelite in tenor and technique, Symbolist in its metaphorical representation of the sacred. 

This beautiful folio of 5" x 7" notecards contains 10 cards, 5 each of these two designs, and 10 envelopes. 
Susan Seddon Boulet tiger painting greeting card
Animal Spirits: Paintings by Susan Seddon Boulet boxed greeting card set
price: $14.95

Boxed gift card set of beautiful paintings by the acclaimed artist Susan Seddon Boulet, who drew her artistic inspiration from mythology, poetry, Jungian psychology and worldwide spiritual traditions. 

5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes, 5 each of four different images: Tiger Eye, Coyote Woman Waits, Healing the Earth, and Bear Woman Dancing.  Each card's image has an in-depth description on the back. 
Faerie Houses boxed greeting card set
price: $14.95

These marvelous Faerie Houses were created by Sally J. Smith in the forests of the Adirondacks.  They are made entirely of local, natural materials, except for the occasional bit of thread or fine wire.  The artist approaches each project as an intuitive exploration of the materials she finds, letting the properties of the moss, stone, mushrooms, and such inform her creation.  Once they have been created, Smith walks away, leaving these gifts to the elementals of the place.

Cards are 5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes to the box.  Four images are included: "Garden Faerie House", "Enchanted Forest Faerie House", "Waterfall Faerie Cottage", and "Autumn Faerie Cottage". 

Bears by Bissell boxed greeting card set
price: $14.95

Artist Robert Bissell brings a delightful charm to his renditions of a favorite animal subject: bears.  In each painting, he playfully invites you to view the world through the lens of his bears.  In this collection you will find "The Embrace", "The Uprising", "The Reflection", and "Aviators". 

Cards are 5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes to a box. 
Trees by Hajime Namiki boxed greeting card set
price: $14.95

Japanese artist Hajime Namiki uses traditional printmaking skills passed down over many generations to create his images of nature and myth.  An underlying ground of gold or silver on handmade Torinoko paper adds to his prints' luminous quality, suggesting sunshine seen through the foliage.  Namiki's work has hung in the White House as well as in numerous museum, university, and private collections.

The featured pieces are: "Seita No Ohgusu", "Dogwood", "Yonaki Matsu A", and "Tree Scene 76". 

Cards are 5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes to a box. 
Divine Feminine: The Paintings of Kimberly Webber
price: $14.95

Artist Kimberly Webber of Taos, New Mexico, presents a path of love and healing in her paintings.  She seeks to revive the feminine spirit to cultivate, feed, rejuvenate, and enliven, just as the life-giving goddess has nourished the imagination and spirit of humanity since the birth of civilization. 

Her completed paintings are 70 to 100 layers of pure earth pigments, ink, and handmade oil formulas, producing paintings that are luminous and multidimensional.  The result is an alchemical blending of materials, light, and intent that taps into our dreams, memories, hopes, and aspirations for a better future.

The featured titles are: "Circle of Trees", "Light Echo", "Messenger", and "Red Sonya".

Cards are 5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes per box.
Barn Owls by Jeannine Chappell boxed greeting card set
price: $14.95

Artist Jeannine Chappell, born in Atlanta but residing now in the San Francisco Bay Area, combines her talents for creating images on paper with the options provided by editing her artwork via computer.  Such a merger engenders qualities of collage into her unique works of art. 

The barn owl (Tyto alba) is one of the most widely distributed of all birds, taking top honors in that distinction among owls.  Silent in flight, with a telltale screech serving for a "hoot," the barn owl has a heart-shaped face that has endeared it to humans worldwide.

Cards are 5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes in the box.
Fairies: Paintings by Michael Hague boxed greeting card set
price: $14.95

Fairies have captivated the human imagination for centuries, from nymphs and dryads of classical mythology through the jinn, or genies, of Arabian lore to the elves, pixies, flower fairies, nature spirits, and other tiny beings beloved in Western societies.  Inspired by a wealth of fairy lore and literature, artists have long delighted in depicting the magical folk.

This notecard assortment presents four charming illustrations by Michael Hague, from his Book of Fairies (HarperCollins, 2000) and Book of Fairy Poetry (HarperCollins, 2004) and from Kathleen Hague's Good Night, Fairies (Chronicle Books, 2002).  Each enchanting image is accompanied by a brief excerpt or poem. 

Excerpt from one card: "Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place." 

Cards are 5" x 7", 20 cards and 20 envelopes per box.