75 | Cinco de Mama

April 29, 2013 Ashling Loh-Doyle

This year, each day has made me oh-so-grateful for my family and friends, and I’ve had my eyes and ears open for ways to show my appreciation and give back. This Sunday, ankle injury permitting, I will be riding in the Napa Valley Tour De Cure, raising money to support diabetes research—and avoiding a Cinco de Mayo bar crawl. I'm riding for each of my friends who live with this disease each day - and especially proud to be on Team Brauer!

Faced with needing to raise a minimum of $500 for the charity ride, Andrew and I decided to combine powers and come up with a line of greeting cards to celebrate some very special people in our lives - our mothers.

Whether you were a

slurpee drinker,

mudslinger,

beanie baby collector,

or klutz...

we hope these cards will remind you (and your mom) of simpler times when a

note in your lunch box was embarrassing,

but having a Game Boy made up for it.

Each card is $10. All proceeds will go towards our Tour de Cure fundraising. For pre-Mother's Day delivery, please place your order by Friday, May 3. E-mail ashling(at)lotusandash.com with: (1) Your desired quantity/design (game boy, slurpee, beanie baby, band-aid, lunch, or laundry) (2) Your delivery address and we can take it from there…

Already got your momma a card? Support the cause with a bespoke card.

Poster prints of the bike design are available upon request. All proceeds will go to Tour de Cure as well!

thank you and a very happy (early) mother's day.

* if you'd like to donate without purchasing a card, visit the Team Brauer website *

73 | Be Mine - Part I

February 1, 2013 Linx Dating

Valentine's Day is my favorite card-giving holiday as noted here, here, here and here. In honor of San Francisco, the city whose streets are notoriously more romantic than its single twenty-somethings, I'm starting off this year with a collection of cards that's suited for those in love, those in hate, and those searching online for their perfect match: 2013-v-day-grouper

2013-v-day-match

2013-v-day-e

2013-v-day-okc

2013-v-day-grinder

51 | L&A HOLIDAY & CHEER

December 5, 2010 Ashling Loh-Doyle

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The season is upon us, and the L&A holiday workshop is in full swing. Dean Martin is blaring, and the spice candles are burning, and there are ribbon cuttings all over the place.

December snuck up especially quickly this year - dreidels are already spinning, and the christmas countdown is well under way! But despite the hustle and bustle, there has still been time for:

custom letterpress greetings...

personal illustrations with metallic touches...

brown paper packages tied up with string...

stationery gift sets...

in this year's L&A holiday gift wrapping.

HARK! There's more work to be done... including more greeting card and gift designing...

to my favorite holiday tunes.

So, before Christmas arrives in a blink of an eye, L&A wishes you a happy December, filled with present-wrapping, friends, plenty of merriment, and of course,

paper.

*for holiday paper inquiries, click here.

43 | Celebrate Creativity & Beans

June 24, 2010 Ashling Loh-Doyle

| SPREAD CREATIVITY . designed 06.2010 |

By far, the best class I ever took at Stanford was CREATIVITY&INNOVATION. Besides the amazing teachers, my enthusiastic peers, and the awesome Stanford d.school building, one of the assignments was to design a line of greeting cards for "national creativity day" - the brainchild of neuroscientist, creativextraordinaire, and one of my personal heroes - Tina Seelig.

After a class-long brainstorm, prototyping and presentation of the new line of greeting cards, I threatened to make a line of LOTUS&ASH greeting cards inspired by the class. That threat has become a reality with a set of 4 greeting cards that are intended to ignite creativity between two people, or an entire group of people...

| SENTENCE STRUCTURE . designed 06.2010 |

| ODE TO CREATIVITY (fold it poem exercise) . designed 06.2010 |

| CREATIVE NOTE . designed 06.2010 |

the life of L&A:

Graduation celebrations continued last night at AXE restaurant in Venice.

I highly recommend the Vegetable Pistou - even on a hot summer night, the soup was a delight. WARNING: Do not order it if you do not intend to soak up the garlicy broth with the chunks of rustic bread accompanying.

The night was a double celebration for myself and a very good friend, who got into a very good grad school. To commemorate her achievements, nothing less than a semi-inappropriate greeting card was in order:

| BRA*VO . designed 04.2009 |

Graduation celebrations, part 1002030:

Congrats to Erica & Teddy on their beautiful new home.

{ taking a page out of erica's book }

celebration made easy

add one part prosecco, two parts sweet lady jane cake, and good company, and you have yourself the perfect post-dinner plans.

| CUSTOM DESIGNED hanging MANTEL PIECES by ERICA . 06.2010 |

39 | LOVE LOVE LOVE

February 13, 2010 Ashling Loh-Doyle

| L&A love packaging . designed 2010 |

I knew there had to be something different about me when I spent an entire weekend hand-making valentines in 2nd grade, rather than buying the boxed set at the market. Don't get me wrong, I love mini M&Ms and My Little Ponies as much as the next, but I somehow got greater pleasure out of cutting and folding red pieces of paper for everyone in my class.

The tradition continues today with the 2010 Collection of Valentines.... hand-designed and handmade for those L&A cares about most.

| L&A Valentines 2010 |