The cards got rave reviews, so she mailed samples to retail stores and set up a Web site where they now sell for $2.95 each.įelter said she and her husband, U.S. Less than a year ago, Felter started sending out handmade cards with funny inscriptions to friends. “I’ll think of the most inappropriate thing I shouldn’t say and then I’ll say it,” she added with a laugh. “People don’t expect it from me because I look like a chubby sort of Cindy McCain,” Felter said in an interview at her Moreno Avenue home office Friday (for the record, Felter isn’t even slightly chubby).
Palo Alto resident Lynn Felter, a bubbly 43-year-old mother of three and Army wife, seems like the last person who would create a line of saucy greeting cards spiced with sexual innuendo and crass jokes.īut talk with Felter for a few minutes, and the snarky sense of humor behind her new company Across the Line Cards begins to emerge.
