Pressed flower card · No two alike
Gentiana
Gathered in Breckenridge, Colorado, August 8, 2026
$15
A cluster of gentian, pressed whole with its stem and mounted by hand. Blank inside.
Hand gathered · Pressed by hand
Pressed by hand, from flowers that grew.
Every card holds one real flower, gathered from the Colorado mountains and pressed onto deckled card. On the sleeve, we write where it grew and the day it was picked.
What a pressed card holds
A day in the mountains, kept flat.
The place
Each flower is gathered by hand in the Colorado mountains. This season's came from Breckenridge.
The day
Every sleeve records the date its flower was picked. This season's were gathered on August 8, 2026.
The keeping
Read once, kept for years. A pressed card is a letter that can be framed when the reading is done.
This season
No two alike.
The card you receive is the card in the photograph.
Pressed flower card · No two alike
Queen Anne's lace
Gathered in Breckenridge, Colorado, August 8, 2026
$15
A full head of Queen Anne's lace, every small floret pressed open. Blank inside.
Any four cards
A set of four, priced as three.
The lowest-priced card is on us. It's applied when you order.
How a card is made
From the mountains to your mailbox.
Gathered
Picked by hand, a few stems at a time, in the week they bloom.
Pressed
Laid flat between sheets and left to dry slowly. [How many weeks, from Glenda]
Mounted
Set by hand on deckled card, and named in ink beneath the flower.
Sleeved
Slipped into a clear sleeve, with the place and the date written on the band.
The maker
Gathered and pressed by Glenda Luck.
Glenda picks every flower herself and presses each one by hand. She initials every sleeve, so the card you receive carries her mark as well as the flower's place and day.
[In Glenda's own words: how she came to pressing flowers, and what she hopes a card means to the person who receives it.]
Glenda is also a composer. Hear her music.
Nature Mandala cards · Printed
Petals and leaves, arranged in a circle.
Each mandala is laid out by hand from pressed petals and leaves, photographed from above on black, and printed in small runs. Blank inside.
$7
To make your own
Presses and kits.
- Flower pressA wooden press, built by hand, for the flowers you bring home.Price to come
- Pressing kit (coming)A small press with tweezers, blotting paper and matte glue, ready to give.Price to come
Find us in person
At the markets.
Summer farmers markets in Summit County, and holiday markets through the season. Come and see the cards in person.
- [Date][Holiday market]To be announced
- [Date][Holiday market]To be announced
- Summer 2027Summit County farmers marketsDates to come
For florists & events
A second life for beautiful flowers.
We press flowers from your events, or the blooms you can't sell, into stationery for you and your clients. Every project is quoted on its own.
Florists
Turn the botanicals you can't sell into pressed cards for your shop and your customers.
Weddings
Thank-you cards and keepsakes pressed from the bridal flowers, arranged through your florist or planner.
Clubs & hotels
Note cards, menus and place cards pressed from a property's own plantings.
Wholesale · By inquiry
For shops that sell slowly and well.
Our Nature Mandala cards are available to independent bookshops, stationers and garden shops. Each card arrives sleeved, with its envelope, ready for the rack. You can already find them in independent bookshops.
$3.75 a card wholesale · $7.50 suggested retail · 30-card minimum
Write to us
We read every note.
Ask for a card, a quote or the wholesale sheet, and you will receive a personal reply.
Thank you.
You will receive a personal reply.
A letter each season
A short letter when new cards are pressed. Nothing more.