Huh? Louie Awards? That was the first that we even knew that Maria's designs were up for consideration.
Every year the New York Stationery Show awards Louie Awards for best new designs. This year, there were 960 entries from 159 companies worldwide. Maria's designs for Crane & Co. won best of class in the Valentines Day category for cards over $3.50, and best of class in the Sympathy category for cards over $3.50. Her Sympathy card also came in third place for best design in the entire show.
Louie Awards are the stationery industry's Academy Awards. It's a pretty big deal. We weren't going to mention this, but today we received samples and congrats from Crane. Since the feather on her Sympathy card is done with a tangelation of Zentangle's tipple along with aura, I convinced Maria to share these with you.
What's really neat is that Maria's designs were entered for Louie consideration only once before. That was in 1996 when she won best of show with her invitations. And this year, when we've decided to reduce our stationery work to focus on Zentangle, her designs won three more Louie's!
Congratulations, babe!
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26 comments:
The cards are lovely! congratulations on the awards!
Congratulations, Maria! Beautiful designs.
Maria ~ you're the best ~ love you
Wow, so proud of you! Thank you so much for sharing with all of us.. They know beauty when they see it!
Well deserved!! Congrats on your classy and heartfelt designs!
Maria -
Congratulations - the cards are awesome! Planted seeds are blooming everywhere... :o) Well deserved.
Great news. Love the cards.
Maria, your work is so beautiful... Congratulations!
congratulations Maria! Another well deserved honour for you!
xo,
Heather
Bravo, Maria! Well deserved. Your cards are beautiful. Congratulations! Sue
thanks everyone. they were fun projects. M
Congratulations! Lovely cards
Maria -- Your work is absolutely exquisite!!! It doesn't surprise me at all that you are honored by others. And, thank you for sharing your wonderful gift with us. Namaste,
Hooray, yippee! Congratulations and I am glad you shared this excitement with us!
Beautiful, as always, Maria! Congratulations!
Quite lovely! Hearty congratulations!
--Margaret
Guess you have to keep designing award winning stationary, too. Lovely work, deserving of awards.
Way to go.
Congratulations Maria. Beautiful work.
This is no surprise at all -- both are so beautiful. I would have selected both in heartbeat. Congratulations on the unexpected, yet well deserved recognition.
Add my congratulations to the list! That's super.
So incredibly beautiful - very well deserved congratulations!!!
Congratulations Maria ... gorgeous!
Congratulations and very well deserved!!!!
You have such beautiful strokes with a pen. Congrats! Can't wait for the seminar in October.
I only have one thing to say, where can I buy the sympathy card? - it's so beautiful and perfect!
I am not sure where they sell them....good quality stationery stores...and gift stores. You could probably google cranes greeting cards and they would tll you where near you of something like that.....m
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