A, C and G

Good morning :) Hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready for a new week! It’s going to be September… so fast… I didn’t like the heat and bugs bites (oh, I hated them!!!), but when I think about the summer is ending, I miss it already…

Anyways. I printed 3 more alphabet greeting cards and they are available now at my shop :) Here are some behind-the-scene photos as usual!

Mixing ink… I always think about if the word has a color, what color would it be before printing. Mixing pretty sky blue for…

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C / Congratulations! I think sky blue is nice, fresh, happy and very celebratory for any occasion. Printing wood type “C” and the plate at the same time.

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1st color printed.

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Moving on to next… mixing pretty green…

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for G / Get Well — this wood type “G” was a special one, has lots of textures! Hoping this lively green makes your loved ones feel better…

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1st color done.

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and moving on to the 3rd one… mixing nice orange…

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for A / Anniversary :) I thought of red at first for the love related anniversaries, but rethought and decided to go with orange — can be sent for a shop anniversary, a blog anniversary, a work anniversary… any kind of anniversaries!

Setting wood type and the polymer plate, ready to print.

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I like the orange, the 1st color printed.

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2nd day — the brown color day!

Setting up the polymer plates. The border and “is for”.

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Adjustments, adjustments, adjustments…

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until it’s in exact spot! :) Print away…

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and here are the finished products :)

C is for Congratulations!:

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G is for Get Well:

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You can see the wood type “G” texture more here.

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A is for Anniversary:

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This letter “A” has a very nice texture, too!

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Hope you enjoy.

More cards to come soon! :)

Megan’s Wedding Invitations

When my friend Megan talked to me about her wedding invitations, I thought it was such a great idea and I knew it would be such a fun project (and I was honored to be a little part of her special day!) so I of course said yes… to print on vintage postcards! She had a lot of them and her wedding theme matches with these awesome vintage french postcards so why not make a great use out of them, right? I thought it was so original and cute and so Megan.

Look at all the cool postcards…

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She sent me few extras, but to set the plates in the right position, I used another paper to determine the placement…

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Mixing brown color…

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Matching Pantone.

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and ready to print.

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The postcards came in 2 different types of the back and this is #1:

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#2: adjusted the position to this background.

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and it came out just lovely!

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I love how it came out! So special. :)

I am actually looking for a wedding stetinary project (from save-the-date, invitations, RSVP cards to Thank you cards, programs…. everything!) if you are interested or if you know someone who just got engaged and you think they might be interested, please let me know!

Happy Friday!

Wilkintie

Beautiful letterpress prints by Wilkintie for inspirations… Love the overlapping part and the usage of colors and everything. They are all so stunning…

John Copeland for Wilkintie:

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Rabbit by Klaus Haapaniemi:

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Circus by Chamo:

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New Posters

Just a quick announcement to let you know that the new Live What You Love posters are now available!

Type setting… it is like a puzzle. Lock all the letters in place.

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I actually hadn’t printed in red before so I printed the red one this time.

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I printed green ones again, this one is more like yellow-green.

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and the popular yellow ones are back in stock.

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They are limited to 10 posters each. So hurry if you are interested :)

Hope you had a nice weekend!