From 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.
Adart PressAdart Press is a design-and-print studio focused on invitations for people marking weddings or Jewish milestone celebrations. Its process lets customers personalize a chosen design, review a digital proof, and receive the approved printed pieces by delivery.BROOKLYN, 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
Type High LetterpressSince 2001, Type High Letterpress has been making hand-printed greeting cards, invitations, posters and other paper goods in Rochester, New York. This full-service letterpress design and print shop works with thick cotton paper and deep impressions, while also offering custom work and hands-on workshops using its collection of wood type and vintage presses. Its playful greeting cards and carefully made wedding invitations reflect a shop that is as interested in character as it is in craft.ROCHESTER, NY
Creations By DesignCreations By Design is a Minster, Ohio maker of personalized keepsakes and recognition pieces, developing each project from a customer’s image or idea. Its work is made to order, with customers supplying project details before the company begins production and arranges pickup or shipping.MINSTER, OH