Let it swim
Just a quick announcement that I printed monogram letterpress notecards in Tiffany Blue/Green! (Oh, don’t you love that color?!)
And Letter T:
Speaking of Tiffany, I recently went there to clean my ring and necklaces, and oh my god, they came back as brand new jewelry! They weren’t kidding that it’d come back as good as new, I thought it was more! My ring was scratched so much, but all the scratches are gone now. Very impressed and happy me!
Printed more “thank you” cards with wood types for my shop the other day and look what happened! “E” was backward :) It happens sometimes due to the mirrored wood type blocks, but thought it was fun to share it here. I flipped the “E” after this so just this only one.
In case you never seen this, this is something I print for my customers. I write a thank you note for each customer on the back of the card. You will receive one with your order*!
*not with poster orders, unfortunately… these cards are too stiff to include into a tube mailer :(
I have “Hello!” “Enjoy!” and “Thank U!” now. Let’s see which one you will receive…
Yes, you heard it right. I am giving away this new SMILE letterpress print in yellow that I just printed! “SMILE” is absolutely one of my favorite words and the gray ones got all sold out so I decided to print more… in yellow this time!
It is in 5×7 inches, letterpressed by hand using vintage wood type blocks on 110lb, 100% cotton Lettra Pearl White paper with soy-based yellow ink – means it’s very eco-friendly! Limited to only 60 prints.
Here are some behind-the-scene photos…
Adjusting its placement and the impression.
Wood type all set, yellow ink set, and ready to print.
Hot off the press…
and here is the final product!
((the dachshund is from DAXDACHS in Ginza Tokyo and the little jewelry box is from Suga Jewelry.))
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To enter, please leave a comment in this post telling us “what makes you smile” by midnight EST on Monday, February 22nd and I will pick a winner and announce one on Tuesday, February 23rd (my birthday!). You can be anywhere in the world, I will ship it to anywhere :) Also, if you tweet about it or if you mention about it on your blog, that gets you more entries — make sure to tell me by leaving another messages so I can count that, too! You have today, this weekend and Monday so hurry!
GOOD LUCK and BIG SMILE to all of you!!!
I should have grabbed this book called The Handy Book of Artistic Printing when I was at Barnes and Noble last week… it looked awesome! and I can’t stop thinking about it since… I mean, look at the cover and the subtitle — “a collection of letterpress examples with specimens of type, ornament, corner fills, borders, twisters, wrinklers, and other freaks of fancy.” — aww sounds super! (and I looked inside a little and I just couldn’t look at it all because it was too good to just flip through!)
I am ordering one after posting this picture of the book I took when I realized that I didn’t have the B&N gift card with me and thought I could find it online so I didn’t have to carry it around… can’t wait to get this!!!