soulshine affirmation cards

08 Mar 2010, Posted by Cape Town Girl in Design, writing work, 0 Comments

As a commercial writer, you won’t believe the weird shit people ask me to write. Aside from the usual assortment of radio promos, brochures for sanitary pads and direct mailers involving mouse traps, I’ve written ‘Happy Sweet Sixteen’ poems for rich kids whose parents can’t spell, ’silent narratives’ about dinosaurs that are obsessed with milkshakes, and even a weird-ass guide to different ’species of South African tourists’. So when my friend Tatum approached me some years back to help her out with editing a set of South African Affirmation Cards, I pretty much jumped at the opportunity, and clung to its skirts like a small child, burying my head in its legs and said ‘yes mommy!’. The cards have been an almost 5-year project, and last month we sat down to do the final editing, and yesterday I received my first box in my hands and am super excited to present Soulshine Affirmation Cards (click through to website where you can view the cards and order a deck for yourself by dropping her a mail):