Have a wonderful Wednesday, from Team Umbo at Umbo Cards PDX!
My business partner left this note for me in a box of Umbo holiday cards I had to pick up this morning - a perfectly artsy start to an otherwise normal workday.
Wanted to pass along the good vibes. Hope everyone is having a wonderful Wednesday! #wonderfulwednesday
We ❤️ Estacada Festival of the Fungus! Lovely to meet so many new friends, fungi, and makers like @feralfungi.bsky.social, @brownbottlefarm.bsky.social, Mixed Media Mossy Mushroom Artist, Wildwood Folk School, Luminaire Mushroom Company, and so many others.
We hope to see you again shroom 🍄
Umbo Cards PDX is at Backyard Bird Shop in Portland, OR!
Umbo Cards PDX is at Frock Boutique in Portland, OR!
Thanks to our friends at Backyard Bird Shop and Frock Boutique for visiting with Team Umbo during our store visits recently.
Whether it's 2 or 200, and takes us 2 days or 2 years, we'll *always* take the time to visit the stores who support us - we appreciate you so mush 🍄❤️ #shoplocal #madeinpdx
Umbo Cards PDX will be at the Lafayette, OR, Harvest Festival on October 11, 2025 - come and enjoy free pumpkins, hot dogs, and apple cider while supplies last.
Fall-some news: Team Umbo will be in Lafayette, OR, for the Oct. 11 Harvest Festival! Free 🎃, 🌭, and 🍎 🥃 = worth it. See you there shroom! 🍄
Catch the cutest mushroom greeting cards in PDX (and maybe the universe) @portlandflea Sunday, Sept. 28, from 11am to 4pm 🍄 Meet the Umbo artist, find your fave fungi, and get mushy this holiday with a limited-edition hand-decorated gift box from Team Umbo! #portlandflea #greetingcards #madeinpdx
Coming shroom to the @birdallianceoregon.bsky.social Nature Store - a cute curated Umbo collection! And our winged mascot, Ruby, approves! 🍄🦜
You never know where you'll find Umbo;
on a car, on an amp, in a window ...
On a bottle, in your mailbox,
or where mushrooms grow ...
Or the Gaston, OR, community market tomorrow!
Hope to see y'all there real shroom 🍄
Love to see @powells.bsky.social on Bluesky - Team Umbo is also big on meeting people where they are. And again, thank ya very mush for getting to know Umbo! 🍄 And, to the rest of our small but mighty Bluesky band: Please support your #localbookstores
Umbo Cards PDX artist Emma Shafer shows off flowers - a gift from a fellow vendor at the Lafayette Saturday Market in Lafayette, OR, on Sept. 13, 2025.
And new friendships bloom! We're so happy we were invited to attend the Lafayette (OR) Saturday Market, because our fave thing about making Umbos is getting to meet other PNW artists - who mush be the sweetest, most generous people in the world. Thank you for the flowers and the memories ❤️
Box of sealed Umbo goodies bound for Frock Boutique in Portland's Alberta Arts District.
Wanna know what's inside?! Find out Frock Boutique in the PDX Alberta Arts District! Thanks so mush to the Frock family for giving Umbo a happy home ❤️🍄 #ShopLocal #pdx #albertaartsdistrict
Emma works on an Umbo event display.
A close-up of the Umbo display engagement piece, asking visitors to take a closer look at the greeting cards.
Emma drawing Umbo greeting cards at the event.
The Umbo Cards PDX event booth at Chalice Farms.
Team Umbo spent the weekend in Dundee, OR, at Chalice Farms for their end-of-summer Artisan Market 😍 Had a lovely time, and look forward to going back shroom 🍄 #greetingcards #madeinPDX
Send lazy Sunday vibes with Slumbo any day of the week 😴 An everyday PSA to remind you - it's okay to take a day off, especially on Labor Day weekend #chill #relaxtime #labordayweekend
How Umbos are influenced by Tove Jannson's Moomins, with references to the The New Yorker.
Wanna know why Umbos are 100% goodness, with no Vader to their Skywalker? Read here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Umbo Cards PDX sticker in a thrift store sticker bowl.
Team Umbo was here! #cute #guerillamarketing #PDX
Umbo greeting card with waterfall at Silver Falls State Park, Oregon.
Chumbo gets chummy with #waterfalls at Silver Falls State Park and mushes you were there 🤗 #oregonstateparks #nature #greetingscards #madebyhumans
Umbo greeting cards on their way to Ohio from Portland, OR on a sunny Saturday afternoon.
Umbo heading to Ohio on a sunny PDX Saturday - travel safe little friends 🍄👋 #greetingcards #madeinportland #smilesacrossthemiles
Umbo Cards PDX mushroom greeting card with sunflower.
Slumbo slumbers under a sunflower 🍄 🌻 #greetingcards #handmade #madeinportland #PDX
Artist Emma Shafer's initials hidden in an Umbo greeting card painting.
Team Umbo loves surprises, so Emma hides her initials in every Umbo painting. Can you match these initials to the right Umbo? (HINT: You'll feel better when you find it!) Take a look here: www.umbocardspdx.com/products 🔍 #easteregg #surpriseanddelight #greetingcardart
Strumbo sketch exploring nature elements.
Strumbo sketch exploring guitar paint color.
Strumbo sketch exploring grass and moss color.
Strumbo sketch exploring trunk and mushroom color.
Every Umbo #mushroom #painting takes Emma about 2 months to complete, which requires numerous sketch revisions, color exploration, and #gouache painting. See the final results here: www.umbocardspdx.com
Cone & Steiner mercantile store, Capitol Hill, Seattle
The Red Balloon Company, Capitol Hill, Seattle
Grapheme Letterpress, Central District, Seattle
BIG mushy thanks to Josiah and Brandon at Cone & Steiner Cap Hill, Toni and John at The Red Balloon Company and Elise at Grapheme for your time with Umbo today - so wonderful to meet all of you 🥰 Umbo fam - if you're in #seattle, please stop in and say hello from Team Umbo!
Umbo Cards PDX artist Emma Shafer
Umbo Cards PDX artist Emma Shafer paints the original Humbo.
Umbo Cards PDX artist Emma Shafer researches the natural elements of Chumbo 2.
Meet Emma, the OG (and only) Umbo artist! Emma loves nature, #mushrooms, and painting - of course! - but also her cat, Kimchi, hiking, and #PDX adventures like pinball @wedgeheadpdx.bsky.social and @omsiedu.bsky.social After Dark!
The cutest cards ever? Umbo Cards PDX is now open 🍄 Hand-painted and printed in Portland, OR, by Emma Shafer and Paperjame Press - thanks, PJ! Meet the Umbos here: www.umbocardspdx.com #madeinPDX #handmade #mushroom #greetingcards
