This cute creature is a Golden-mantled Tree-kangaroo. This species of tree kangaroo is native to forests of northern New Guinea. Tree kangaroos are marsupials belonging to the Macropod family. (via)

A young brown rat helps himself to the lunch of a 12-year-old African leopard named Sheena at the Santago Rare Leopard Project in Hertfordshire, England. Photos are by photography student Casey Gutteridge. Read the full story here.

This cute, cordial, baby frog was taken by Tara Carollo in the hand of her niece Julia. (via)

This cute baby cheetah is a rescued orphan from the Maasai Mara in Kenya. (via)

This is a cute Fulvous-faced Flycatcher Warbler, taken at Wuling Farm, Taiwan by John & Fish. See their Flickr page here.

This cute baby lamb is from The Daily Coyote, which chronicles the adventures of a former big city girl living in a small 300-person Wyoming town.

This baby giraffe is named Margaret Abigail. She was born February 17, 2008 and made her public debut May 6, 2009 at the Bronx Zoo. For more information and pictures, see this ZooBorns article.

These cute baby river otters are from SeaWorld in San Diego. For more cute zoo babies, see this San Diego news slideshow.

For more cute finger sized animals, see this page.

Pictured above is the final result. For the full instructions, see this article.

by memimenam via this strange sofas photo post .

by jenprouty

by DoKo.

That looks like a tasty strawberry. By gwenturnerjuarez

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Teddy is one of Brian's two Pomeranians. (He's not a stuffed animal.)

See more in Brian's Flickr slideshow.

I previously posted a cute bunny and a cute kitty. Here is a cute puppy. By Kailash Gyawali, via Cutecore.

I mentioned in a previous post that we are experimenting with different colored card stock. We tried a beige color card stock on our Panda card which seemed to be a success. However, we can only find it in 65 lb. cover, which seems to be too light.

We searched some more and ordered a metallic card stock by Petallics called "Autumn Hay". Our order was delivered a few days ago, and it looks really nice. It has a nice, almost iridescent shine to it, and the card stock is very stiff. It is rated at 98 lb. cover, but it has the metallic coating on both sides which makes it much stiffer. Scoring it with our Scor-it tool creates a pretty professional-looking score on the inside of the card.

Despite these positives, we had a couple of problems printing on it with our Phaser 8560DN solid ink printer. The first problem was, because the paper was so stiff, it got jammed when running through the duplexer. However, this is just an inconvenience because it just means we'll have to make two passes for each print. (It ran single-sided prints with no problem).

The second problem is more serious and we still haven't found a solution for this yet. Though the print comes out very nicely, the ink easily scrapes off due to the smooth metallic coating. From art class, I remember there was a kind of spray for charcoal and pastel drawings to hold it in place once the drawing was finished. So we headed to Michaels and got a pastel/charcoal/pencil fixative by Prismacolor. The bad news is, it didn't work. The ink ran, cracked, and generally got all muddled up.

So it's back to the drawing board. At least now I can use the fixative on my 3-foot heigh charcoal hand drawing from college.

Update:I sought the counsel of another Michaels sales associate and learned that I needed an acid-free spray. So I got some Krylon "Preserve It!" Digital Photo & Paper Protectant. It does not ruin the print like the charcoal fixtative did, and, after a few coats, it prevents the ink from scratching off. I'm still not sure if this will be a practical solution from a business standpoint, but at least we're making progress. Maybe we will find an even better solution down the road.

We got our order of cello bags yesterday. They're the kind with the fold-over sticky flap. Pretty professional looking, huh? The card in the bag is the Bundled Hearts Valentines Day card, part of our push to make a bunch of Valentines Day Cards before Valentines Day.

In keeping with the cute baby animal theme, here is a cute baby kitty. That's it... just shameless cuteness. I found it at the Cute Project.

In my marketing quest, I came across this cute bunny. Go to the original article for a bigger picture. I'd like to see if I get a trackback on the original article, but I'm not sure if I have to have something else set up for it... I guess we'll see. Update: I guess it didn't work... need to do some homework...

In other news, I also ordered some metallic speckled card stock online today. It's hard to tell exactly how it will look from the picture, but I hope it will be pretty nice. We'll try some test prints and hopefully can offer this as another paper option. If it works well, there are a number of other color options as well.

Today we also looked into plastic wrapping for individual cards. Angela's parents own a retail store and agreed to offer our cards at their store. This is a great opportunity for us. We just need to provide a simple packaging for the single card and envelope. We found some cello bags online. If you have any suggestions let us know.