There have been quite a few times since starting to sell my stationery wholesale where retail shop owners are curious and asking about fun facts about Lucky Dog Design Co.
You may want to share them with your customers as they purchase or look at our stationery to help show you’re truly supporting small shops. Or it may just serve as a way to get to know us a little better.
Either way, below you’ll find some facts about Lucky Dog:
- Trees are not harmed in the making of our paper goods! We source our paper from a USA-based paper mill that produces our paper from recycled fibers in a 100% windmill-powered factory.
- The very first card I made was using paper I made myself when I was a toddler. I collected my favorite color scrap cardstock and glittery thread and turned it into a pulp. I then mixed in this bright red lint from the dryer and gave it a more pink look. After pressing it and drying it, my card was ready!
- The very first card I made for Lucky Dog is still one of our bestsellers: Hug with a Fold In It.
- You can find us in over 60 shops across North America, and we’ve shipped internationally to almost every continent (excluding Antarctica and Asia).
- Odin is my 10-year-old Border Collie/Black Lab pup. He is our Chief Mail Sniffer - which means he inspects all outgoing and incoming packages to ensure quality. He’s always been so curious and has loved taking out and getting the mail since we got him at 7 weeks old.
- All stationery at Lucky Dog is handcrafted in our home studio in metro Atlanta, Georgia.
- I untraditionally learned how to design from being a newspaper journalist at small daily papers. Writing stories was my primary job, but being at a small paper, I was tasked with photography and laying out pages. That’s why a lot of my designs are typography-based.
- Drawing and lettering is a daily practice and something I adore - I try to incorporate it in as many of my designs as possible.
- All of the paper scraps (and there are a ton of them!) from making stationery is re-used and turned into handmade paper. Typically this is for personal use, but I love giving them out to my stationery-loving friends and family. There’s so much paper from a large sheet or from trimming that you just cannot re-use as-is, so this is my way of continuing to give life to the products I sell.
- We really are a small shop over here. I, Kayla, do about 90% of the day-to-day, making, and order fulfillment. I have my husband, who I consider our CTO. He’s incredible at making sure all of the tech systems work well, keeps all of my industrial printers in check, and creates any spreadsheet under the sun. I also have a wholesale manager who helps research shops that would fit perfectly with Lucky Dog, and she helps maintain some of those relationships.
