Patterson 2007

About Us

ABOUT SHEILA JOHNSTON:

             Growing up in rural Wisconsin, it is no wonder that Sheila Johnston has an appreciation for simple American Folk Art and vintage designs.  Her passion for antiques, vintage textiles and historic prints have all influenced her current design work.   It has always been Sheila’s desire to help Americans remember their heritage and roots, by creating greeting cards and stationery that reflect the simple beauty of early American times.

             Sheila earned her degree in Interior Design from the College of Human Ecology at the University of Minnesota and later gained experience in graphic and web design while working for the City of Colorado Springs.  This experience lead to the pursuit of purely graphic design work to include work at an advertising agency and the opening of her first company, Wild Horses Web Design LLC. in 1998. 

             After a three and a half year break from design work and the birth of her two beautiful daughters, Sheila’s desire to return to designing lead her to start Sheila Johnston Designs.   Sheila launched her new business in January of 2005, by creating greeting cards and stationery reminiscent of  the old General Store.  Now in 2007, with the release of her newest collection, Early American Folk Art,  frame-able greeting cards and stationery gifts, Sheila captures our hearts with designs from America’s very simple and humble beginnings.  All of the charming and distinctive motifs in her new collection are adapted from authentic 18th and 19th century quilts, embroidery, painted artifacts and tinware.

             As they have been from the start, Sheila’s greeting cards and stationery products are designed from her home, amongst the rural cotton farms and history-filled countryside of North Carolina.  Furthermore, unlike many stationery companies today, her greeting cards and stationery products are printed and packaged right here, within our great country, the United States of America. 

             In both her professional and private life (the wife of a military officer), Sheila strives to restore a love for our great and noble country, and encourages others with her designs to remember our country’s humble beginning, and its one simple desire to become “...one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” *            

*Pledge of Allegiance