Introducing, The Cardy Club…
Natasha and Jack Carty are the married creative duo behind The Cardy Club<\/a> – a card company that are all about making humans happy with colourful paper-goods that celebrating stalker levels of love, awkward truth bombs, and awesome (terrible) puns.
Since launching in February 2018 their cards have travelled the world, and are now stocked in shops big and small from London to Lagos. Originating from Australia you will often find The Cartys drinking coffee in their home-studio, buried under paper, paints, guitar leads and bits of string.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nHow did you get into designing cards? Was it something you always wanted to do?<\/strong> What Inspires your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Tash:<\/strong> I suspect that if you could be a fly on the wall at our house you would think we are a couple of weirdos. We\u2019re a pretty playful pair and we spend a lot of time discussing our brutally honest (yet light-hearted) observations about each other and our relationship, as well as the crazy world around us. What is your working process?<\/strong> If you could stockpile one thing, what would it be?<\/strong> What’s a recent TV binge \/ Netflix must see? It\u2019s safe to say, we\u2019ve been feeling just a little bit lonely of late. With an abundance of spare time and a craving for human interaction, we\u2019ve decided to reach out to some of our independent designers for a quick, socially-distanced chinwag to find out more about their creative process, why cards and how they\u2019re ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-designers","category-face-behind-the-cards","tag-face-behind-the-cards","tag-the-cardy-club"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Tash<\/strong>: I have an early memory of making my Nana a birthday card using cut-out shapes to create flowers and then using layer upon layer of PVA glue to paint over the paper card to create a gloss finish! More recently (about 7 years ago), I hand-drew a range of Christmas cards for my family. I enjoyed it so much that I decided I was studying the wrong thing and switched from Photography to Graphic Design at Uni. It was a natural progression from there.
Jack:<\/strong> I just married a very clever lady who has a knack for this sort of thing and have thankfully been brought along for the ride. I have always found wordplay and puns and things like that a lot of fun, and that\u2019s all helped massively in coming up with concepts for Tash to illustrate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.scribbler.com\/Images\/Editor\/Cardy%20Club\/TCC-Image5.jpg\")
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Jack:<\/strong> I find in general I am inspired by honesty, and I think that is something that is sometimes missing in the current climate. I\u2019d like to think our cards are all pretty honest in their way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.scribbler.com\/Images\/Editor\/Cardy%20Club\/TCC-Image3.jpg\")
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Tash<\/strong>: It depends what comes first – the copy or the illustration. Sometimes I have an idea for a mood or an image I\u2019d like to create and I delve straight into sketching and the copy comes later. But often Jack and I will be talking to each other and one of us will make a funny observation about something and we\u2019ll look at each other and say \u201cthat\u2019s a card!\u201d. Not all of our ideas make the cut (thank goodness)! We have a shared document where we jot down ideas and sometimes you\u2019ll try to create a card and it just won\u2019t work, no matter how many hours you spend on it or revisions you make. But other times an idea and design will come out so quickly and effortlessly, and it will become a best-seller!<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.scribbler.com\/Images\/Editor\/Cardy%20Club\/_MG_0417.jpg\")
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Tash:<\/strong> Eggs! They\u2019re delicious, easy to cook and so versatile! I could eat them for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Jack<\/strong>: Guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.scribbler.com\/Images\/Editor\/Cardy%20Club\/TCC-Image4.jpg\")
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Tash: <\/strong>Anything by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Fleabag is my favourite! Also The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
Jack:<\/strong> Normal People! Everything you have heard is true – it\u2019s bloody great.
What is the thing you\u2019re most missing\/looking forward to doing when life is back to normal? <\/strong>
Tash:<\/strong> Coffee dates.
Jack:<\/strong> Seeing some live music.
Thanks to Natasha and Jack for taking part in this series. You can shop the full range from The Cardy Club here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/scribblerdesigners.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image.png\")
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