Elum

The Orange County based letterpress studio Elum has the most adorable designs for greeting cards and stationery sets in the area. Elum works really hard to keep things classic, fresh and environmentally friendly. These are the cards that you receive and keep forever, you can see the amount passion and work that goes into each card. It was hard to just pick four cards to show you so if you like these ones you should visit their website here to see the rest of line of paper goods.

500 Color Pencils by Social Designer

Color pencils were always my favorite gift as a kid. I never had enough colors in my pencil case. This is why I was very excited to see the Social Designer’s website, they offer a subscription to ship 25 color pencils monthly for 20 months; this way you can pay for them slowly and be the proud owner of an incredible 500 color pencil set!.

As you can imagine, 500 color pencils will not be your ordinary art set, this is something worth displaying. Social Designer sells four different types of displays, they are all fantastic ways to show this beautiful collection. I can’t stop looking at their images. They inspire me to take my color pencils out and start drawing.

Publish Your Own Book

Blurb is a website where you design you own books, anything from photo albums to a cook book. Blurb provides the software and you bring your ideas, making everything exactly the way you want it. Once you are finished you can order it and have your family or friends order their own books through the Blurb website.

Blurb takes photo sharing to the next level, the options are infinite. I found many artists and photographers selling their books here, it seems like a simpler way to make you book ideas a reality. I also see newlyweds making their wedding photo albums here and sharing them with their families. The books go anywhere between $14 and $100 depending on the size, number of pages and if you want it with a  soft or hard cover.

I think this would also be a great gift for kids and parents, maybe it’s a book with photos of their birthday party or a customized story book for a child. Go to Blurb.com and bring your creativity along, you might come up with some other book ideas that might be useful to you.