Founded by Bryan and Jessie McFarland, 3x5 Life creates pocket-sized analog cards that bring gratitude, reflection, and daily task management together in one portable system. The company’s approach keeps those prompts visible throughout the day, offering a tangible alternative to productivity apps and digital distractions. Now led by Matt Walker, a high-performance leadership psychologist, 3x5 Life is carrying that original card-based practice into its next chapter.
Free Period PressCleveland-based Free Period Press turns research about living well into bright, playful paper goods that help people slow down, unplug and care for themselves. Founded by Lora to address her own overachieving, productivity-focused habits, the company creates friendly tools for reflection, creative downtime and grounded routines, including its made-in-Cleveland Habit Tracker Calendar. Free Period Press also works with independent artists and designers to bring its screen-free products to life.CLEVELAND, OH
Apartment 2 CardsFrom a small New York City apartment—Apartment 2—Chris Sargiotto founded Apartment 2 Cards in 2010 to design greeting cards that make people smile. Lifelong paper lover Mark Abruzzo joined soon after, and the two now run the company together, creating paper goods and cheerful accessories for sharing with loved ones. Their cards include designs printed on premium recycled paper, while some stickers are made in the United States.NEW YORK, NY
Trading Card MemoriesFounded by artist, printer, technologist and lifelong collector Johnny Iannelli, Exton’s Trading Card Memories designs and produces custom trading cards for teams, organizations and meaningful projects. Iannelli handles the work from concept or client artwork through professional printing, packaging and delivery, giving each project the feel of a genuine collectible rather than a simple printed card. The business carries on a family printing tradition that reaches back to his grandfather’s work producing baseball cards at Philadelphia’s Zabel Brothers in the late 1940s.EXTON, PA
Naptime ProductionsFrom its Rossford, Ohio base, Naptime Productions creates custom-printed invitations, announcements and greeting cards for life’s milestones. Kerri Brimmer has been making the company’s creative card designs since 1996, adapting customer ideas, photos, colors and wording through an email proof before printing. Naptime began with birth announcements and is especially distinctive for its personalized approach to culturally specific occasions, including Red Egg and Ginger celebrations and Irish- and faith-themed cards.ROSSFORD, OH