2019 Catalog

About the Bees The CT-based mother-daughter team of Sally and Becca McBee specializes in greeting and note cards, 8" x 10" matted prints, and screen printed tote bags featuring Sally's hand-drawn, watercolor and ink-based original artwork.

We reproduce all of our cards and matted prints here in our studio with archival, acid-free papers and matting materials using the giclée process, a type of printing employ-ing fade-resistant archival pigment-based inks.

Sally says:

I have lived in France part of the year for the past fifteen years and use that time to think, create and paint. I also hiked for eleven days in the Canadian Rockies this past summer and will be going to both Sedona and Morocco in the near future to com-plete other wonderful and informative hikes. These experiences always feed into my painting habit, whether I get insight through what I am seeing or through the inter-esting people I meet on these trips. Two Bees Design is the third business I've started in the past 30 years; although my background is actually in journalism, I've run a high-end window treatment company, where I designed and sewed window treatments of all sorts, and an event/wedding business in my gardens where I was the gardener. Be-ing creative in one form or another has always been in my blood, and although I did-n't start painting until 2006, I think art for me is a natural extension of my previous experiences.

Two Bees came about quite by accident when I made each of the women in my bi-monthly painting group a Christmas present by illustrating a saying that I felt applied personally to each of them; I had so much fun doing it that I continued producing additional sayings, which morphed into the idea of a card company. When I see my cards displayed in a shop, I feel that they jump out from the rest, both for my love of bright colors (three rooms in my house are different shades of orange!) and for the uncluttered white backgrounds that make the colors pop. When I start a humorous greeting card, I first identify the lettering I want to use, plot out the line spacing ac-cording to the number of words, decide what I want to emphasize most in the word-ing, and formulate how I will embellish the finished product. What do I love most about this process? I never know what a finished card will look like when I start ... and that keeps the process fun and engaging for me.

We love what we do! Most of our cards incorporate some form of Zentangle, the art of stylized and creative doodling. It’s way more fun than anyone should be allowed to have!

We use all archival materials.

Need custom work?

Do you have a favorite saying you’d like to have illustrated? Send it to us ... we’ll discuss the design with you and take it from there!

Opening Order/RE-Order: No Minimums Payment Methods: V/MC/Disc Made In/Ships From: Stonington, CT

Greeting Cards: 5” x 7” Giclée prints of original watercolors on Museo archival, acid-free paper with Crane & Co envelope.

$2.50 ea Note Cards: 5.25” x 3.75” Giclée prints of original watercolors on Museo archival, acid-free paper with Crane & Co envelope.

$2.00 ea Matted Prints: Available in all 7.25” x 5.50” Greeting Cards. Fit 8x10 Frames

$9 ea

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