Encouragement Card Your strength amazes me

When someone you love needs encouragement, this card helps you say what matters most. The front reads “Your strength amazes me” above a close-up of my hand-illustrated Sunflower Resilience bouquet.

Inside, more sunflowers appear in soft color, along with the printed message, “I see you and I believe in you!”, and the traditional meaning of each bloom:

• Lilac: first love

• Sunflower: pride

• Thistle: endurance

This is a card for anyone facing a hard road: a friend in treatment or recovery, a caregiver carrying a heavy load, someone rebuilding after a loss, or a loved one working toward a difficult goal. It doesn’t pretend things are easy. It simply tells them you notice their courage and you’re on their side.

In this close-up, you can see the sturdy stalks that inspired the name Sunflower Resilience, each one holding its bloom up toward the light. The original took about 30 hours in black ink and colored pencil at 18" x 24", drawn from live flowers grown by Muddy Feet Flower Farm, a woman-owned grower.

Because the sunflower is Ukraine’s national flower, we make private donations to help children and families there.

When you send this card, you’re supporting an SBA-certified woman-owned small business that works with American family-run manufacturers. It’s printed in Maryland on lightly textured bright card stock, and its envelope is milled in South Carolina and assembled in Wisconsin.

• Size: A2

• Paper: lightly textured bright card stock, FSC-certified, with 30% post-consumer recycled content

• Envelope: white, invitation-style flat flap, 4.5" x 5.75"

• Inside: lighter full-color art, printed message, and flower meanings

• Made in: the USA. The card is printed in Maryland, and the envelope is milled in South Carolina and assembled in Wisconsin.

• Packaging: All Vivid Cottage cards are sent without single-use plastics.