Last week, Heartfish Press gathered 50% of all sales from the online shop and I am very happy to announce $225.50 has been raised and donated to the American Red Cross Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief! Thank you so much for your help!!
We are continuing to raise fund by offering this Iris Letterpress Print for $22 and ALL PROCEEDS GO TO JAPAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF. Until everything will be sold out. I designed and printed this inspired by Japanese wood block print, it went through the press 6 times (usually 2-3 times), the Japanese words you see means “Iris.”
Please help spreading the words! Thank you so much!! xo Hijiri
Letterpress Folk Heart print by Dutch Door Press — been eying on it forever and today, March 17th, 100% of proceeds go to American Red Cross for Earthquake and Tsunami Relief effort in Japan! They have so many lovely prints and cards, if you need some letterpress fix, please go over there now!
Another lovely heart I found — Cherry Blossom Heart print by This Paper Ship. Do you see Japan shape in the heart? 90% of the proceeds go to the American Red Cross’s aid effort in Japan.
Hoping all of our hearts go out to Japan…
Hi there! I hope you all had a great weekend… did you watch Super Bowl? Or Puppy Bowl? :)
Heartfish Blog has a new look now to go with the Heartfish Press website as you realized. Simpler and cleaner, has bigger images and I’ll be organizing contents more so it’ll be easier to find what you are looking for!
Anyways. My copy of the UPPERCASE issue 8 has arrived and guess what…? I received my own sampler (see everyone’s amazing pieces here)! What are the chances, right? I’m lucky that way, I guess… :) Well, someone else should enjoy this… so I have decided to give that one away here on my blog!
To enter, please leave a comment here and tell me your favorite love song by the end of the day Friday, February 11th and I will pick a winner on Monday, February 14th — on Valentine’s Day <3 All your tweets @heartfishpress and facebook mentions count, too :)
Good luck! xo Hijiri
I came across this Year of the Rabbit letterpress print by Dutch Door Press and it made me so happy. They created this print inspired by Chinese cut paper art.
Super cute!
xo Hijiri
I printed the HELLO print in new colors…
Wood type set and paper placement adjusted:
1st new color…
a light gray!
and 2nd new color… a light blue!
Here are the final products available at my shop!
Hope you like these :) xo Hijiri
I printed this very limited edition of LOVE print, which will be featured in an upcoming book… (more about that later)
I love overlapping effects that letterpress can do so I wanted to try that — first, setting up letter O and E:
Adjusting the placement… with consideration about the letter L and V later…
and print the letter O and E.
Now, setting the letter L and V to overlap the letter O and E:
Test print without the ink + adjusting the placement…
Let’s see…
aww I love the shapes and colors that they make each other!
Still adjusting the spacing until I am happy…
Here is the final product! Limited to only 25 prints!
I hope you like it :) xo Hijiri
First up is Live What You Love special edition 2011.
Wood type setting on Vandercook Press without the letter O:
I decided to go with the really light pale pink this time, very sweet combination of colors, I think. The lino heart on the press:
Adjusting the placement — love this happy accident effect!
Placement set, printing away…
and here is the final product, available here.
I hope you like it! xo Hijiri
Also, Lace Heart Letterpress print in black is back in stock, 4×6 size this time :)
SMILE to you!!
Please think of me and my shop this Holiday season :) xo Hijiri