About
Kiss and Punch® creates uber cute, funny and punny letterpress greeting cards and products for paper lovers everywhere. We specialize in sweet and salty sentiments with a punch! Our goal is to spread love and laughter through paper, one illustration at a time.
Founder and designer Julie Stewart is a former corporate counsel at a Fortune 100 corporation. She has a juris doctorate degree from UCLA but learned the craft of letterpress and graphic design at the San Francisco Center for the Book and Otis College of Art and Design, respectively. She left the practice of law in April 2015 and enjoys working full time on her creative business.
Kiss and Punch has exhibited at the National Stationery Show and NY NOW in New York City, as well as the Las Vegas Market, *Noted Expo in San Francisco and Americasmart in Atlanta. Their greeting cards have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Buzzfeed, Retail Brew, Oh So Beautiful Paper, Paper Crave, Mail Models, Brit + Co., Olivebox Card Box, 8balloons.com, glo.com and Design Soak, and other blogs. Kiss and Punch was honored to be a 2015 and 2014 Martha Stewart American Made Finalist for Paper Crafts.
All illustrations are original artwork created by Julie on her iPad - this is significant to point out these days because AI generated art and inexpensive commercially available artwork is rampant online now.
Julie currently lives in Oklahoma City with her husband and son. Got an hour and a half to kill?! Watch Julie's life and business story from her podcast interview on This is Oklahoma: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BA5P_bm9fA&t=1706s