Let it swim
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have found some of the poplar Live What You Love prints after cleaning around (yes, they were buried…) — brown ones and special edition (mounted!) — please grab them as I won’t be printing these for a while…
It was time to restock my chipboard “thank you” cards for my shop… (You can see my Hello! cards and Thanks! cards by clicking the links) I actually printed “Enjoy” cards before, but never had a chance to share on Heart Fish and I printed some more… and this time, “Smile” cards, too :) When you order something from my shop, you will get one! With my hand-written thank you notes!
Type setting — printing 2 cards at the same time. I was working with some metallic ink (ohh, I can’t wait to show you guys what I was working on) and I loved the metallic blue ink so much that I decided to print my cards with it, too.
Everything looks so lovely on chipboards, don’t you think?
and here they are.
Enjoy and Smile! :)
**Also, visit me at Poppytalk Handmade Artists blog today, I talked about these not-for-sale thank you cards! :)
I can’t believe it took me this long to post about this project… but I am so happy to report about my Live Now project (click this link to see the project details) I participated!
I knew from the beginning I wanted to print something with wood types because you just can’t get that same texture on computer, I thought it’d be so special for the project… so I printed a quote from William Arthur Ward — “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; If you can dream it, you can become it.”
My wood type blocks are limited and so when it’s a long sentence, sometimes I don’t have enough letters…
so that I have to print some words first…
and then, set the type to fill in the blank space…
to complete the first half of the quote.
Second part of the quote, I had all the letters so I could print all at once.
After I printed these, I scanned them in, send it to Eric, and he took it from there — and it’s been up on the “Live Now” site since! Thank you so much!!
I actually printed a few more to share at my shop… if you are interested, it is available here!
Limited to only 20 sets :)
Check out these amazing letterpress designs over at Designers’Couch: 33 Breathtaking Letterpress Designs. EVERYTHING is so beautiful and yes, “breathtaking” is definitely the right word.
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