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Caden’s Birth Announcements

Posted on August 7, 2009 by Hijiri

I worked on another lovely custom birth announcements for Vivia and Calvin’s first beautiful boy, Caden. It was my pleasure designing and printing them, I think it is so wonderful to get to work on one’s special occasion! I feel so great.

Here is the making-of… Hope you enjoy!

Setting plates on the base. This part is going to be light blue.

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Mixing light blue ink:

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Matching colors…

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Put the ink on the press, ink the plates, and ready to print.

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Pretty close… Hand mixing ink is fun, but sometimes it’s hard to match it exactly… the color looks different on press and paper, it comes out differently every print, too.

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Moving onto the second color… mixing the color brown.

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Matching color…

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Put the plates back together on the base (it was cut to just get the blue part first).

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and just take out the blue part to get the second part in place.

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And print! Looks good! Print away…

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Printing is done…

Trimming with guillotine cutter.

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and here it is.

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Caden was born in the year of ox so Vivia wanted a cute cow on the card.

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and yes… the blue box was for his picture to insert. They sent me one with his beautiful picture, thank you so much!

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Happy Friday!

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If you are interested in custom letterpress cards and invitations, please contact me! I’d love to talk to you!

H is for Hello!

Posted on July 28, 2009July 28, 2009 by Hijiri

A new addition to my alphabet greeting cards — H is for Hello!

I am printing more, hope to have A to Z as Stephanie has asked… :)

I already printed wood type H and Hello! in yellow a while ago, I just had to print the second color brown… setting the plates on the base:

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Adjustment to do. and yes, to get to the perfect position, there would be mess-ups.

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They never get to go anywhere so I am sharing them here… :) Sometimes it creates an awesome art!

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and here is the final product. Comes with matching 100% cotton envelope.

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Available here!

Hello Tuesday… please be nice to me…

Live What You Love 7th Edition

Posted on July 27, 2009July 27, 2009 by Hijiri

I can’t believe it’s my 7th edition now… thank you so much for all your support! I printed a lot more this time with lots of new summer inspired colors, I am so proud of each one.

Here we go…. type setting.

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Adjust the placement and impression. This time, I made a little stronger impression :)

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I always start with yellow. It’s easy to go to next one (always orange) without having the press clean so much. Yellow one is the most popular one, too. (The yellow poster/print was featured at Apartment Therapy! Thank you so much!)

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Mixing orange. This time, the orange is more summery fresh sunkist orange! I quite like the freshness. Check it out here.

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*”H” has lots of textures!

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Mixing hot pink… 6th edition was so popular that I had to print more this time.

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I always love the pink press. So cute. Hot pink one is available here.

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*and “U” has a dotted line… :)

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and… I thought maybe purple this time… started mixing pretty purple…

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On the press. Looks good :)

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printing away… limited edition of 40.

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and here it is. Available here.

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The classic red. It’s actually redder than ever. I wanted to make sure it’s solid pretty red.

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Available here.

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Nice texture throughout.

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((day 2))

Started with gray ones. I guess I didn’t take pictures! Click here for the gray ones. This time, it’s a little more warmer gray.

Printing the light blue. The 6th edition sky blue looks a little tiny bit different so I decided to call it differently. This is why I keep editions because I could never print them in the same way! Even within the same edition, each print is different :)

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Light Blue:

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and inspired by summer, ocean, water… I wanted to print something different so I started to mix the colors together… and ended up liking this deep blue-green, printed limited edition of 50. Please grab them if you like it :)

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