This has been on my etsy favorites for a while now… Be Awesome Today. 8×10 art print by Lucius Art. Isn’t it awesome?! :)
I will try to be awesome today — off to letterpress studio!
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…
Since it was 5×7 prints, I used smaller wood type blocks. With my computer printouts, pick up all the letters and try to form sentences…
All the letters picked, spelling double-checked…
Start locking the letters. Takes a long time…
Adjusting impressions and placements… I’m printing both quotes in one paper here.
After everything is set, ink the press and print…
For his name, I ordered a polymer plate. Setting up the plate on the base, ready to print his name separately.
and here are the final products!
Yes, perfectly imperfect, I just can’t get enough of the wood type loveliness… Lindsay and her husband told me the nicest things, made me happy so much! Thank you for another fun and wonderful project!
LWYL 8th edition was already getting so low that I printed some of the 9th edition ((more colors to come!))
I must admit when the Vandercook is all pink, it makes me happy :)
Pink (I hadn’t printed 8×10 pink in a while!):
and a few people have asked me if I ever print this again… so I did! FLOSS mini letterpress prints are back :) Only 12 available!
Thank you for looking :)
Happy Friday, everyone!
Perfect for the black and white area for our house… It can go with these pillows, too…
Here is a red one. Few more colors are available and they all look so cute, I want to have them all if I could… :)
Let’s start the week with a pretty print — Wild Garden (kaleidoscopic) from Yumi Yumi. Isn’t it lovely? I like that it almost looks like a heart shape and the colors are just so pretty. I first saw this over at elephantine, I had to ask where it is from.
and yes, the details, details, details. Very nice.
Check out more of her work from here.
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 :)
I love some colored leaves… awesome details!
Thursday morning inspiration… have a great day :)
p.s have you enter the Live What You Love print giveaway yet? It ends tonight! GOOD LUCK!!
p.s.s Silver and Gold Cake cards are now with free shipping within US and to Canada! :)