There are so many great Valentine Day related stuff around these days, I just have to post about them!
I came across these word puzzle pillows by SweetDoveDesigns – Love the idea!
These simple typewriter font is perfect for this.
I see lots of pretty and cute things, but I just have to go with the one with ideas. Makes it so special and thoughtful.
Happy Friday, everyone! Hope your week has been a good one.
Posted under Inspiration
A little different and such a special card from Art Mind – with handmade felt heart!
The heart is in the semi-transparant paper so you can see through – love the idea so much!
There are a lot more cute cards like this sweet birthday card and thank you cards!
Thursday morning eye candy. Have a great day, everyone!!
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I mentioned that I’m participating this project with Samantha Hann at Maquette in the beginning of the year and it is finally live! It was a “Love” book project — Samantha asked 25 artisits and writers to submit a piece inspired by their idea of love and I was somehow included (THANK YOU SO MUCH!!) and she just published them as a book on blurb!!
Here is an amazing list of contributers:
Hannah Stouffer, Lilly Piri, Aaron Hogg, Lisa Butterworth, Dan Funderburgh, Samantha Hahn, Erin Loechner, Jesse Breytenbach, Kate Miss, Jessica Gonacha, Kelly Lynn Jones, Yasmine Surovec, Shira Sela, Matthew and Sandy Lynn Davis (Treatzone), Maditi, Amy Sahba, Ez Pudewa, Hijiri Shepherd (me!), Marisa Haedike, Lisa Congdon, Holly Becker, Kate Neckel, Katie Sokoler & Kate Bingaman Burt
The cover (by Samantha – picture is taken by her, too)
Thumbnails of some of the work inside:
and….. my work!
My copy is on its way right now, I can’t wait to see the real book! You can order yours here, just in time for Valentine’s Day, it’d make an amazing gift!
I love this font called “Naiv” from FontShop.
Look at Os and Q and a – LOVE the shape!
Very modern and unique, nice fonts!
Posted under typography
Randy came home with these pink gerbera flowers one day last week because I’ve been working so hard (isn’t he so sweet?). I LOVE flowers especially, unexpected ones!! Thank you, Randy!!
They definitely inspire me, the colors are always so beautiful and it just brightens your day, your home, everything.
I’ve wrote about flower pins before and I have been putting more flower accessories on my etsy favorites lately so I wanted to share some with you here.
Fine Silver Cast Succulent 2 Finger Ring (gorgeous!!):
Reclaimed Wool Sweater Brooch:
Hope these would brighten your day!
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My friends Yuki and Anthony had a beautiful baby boy on January 4th (CONGRATULATIONS!!) and I was really happy to get to work on the birth announcements for them!
The preparation:
Printing first color (brown) on Vandercook Press:
Second color (blue):
I printed about 100 announcements.
It’s on its way to them right now… hope they’ll like it! I’m learning a lot every time I print something, which is great so thank you, Yuki and Anthony!
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Today is a Chinese New Year — It’s a year of Ox! Happy Day, everyone!
Posted under letterpress
Thank you so much for your sweet comments on my blog birthday post! It was a small giveaway so I decided to do “Amida-kuji” — a Japanese ladder lottery. Growing up in Japan, we always played this lottery game and thought it’d be fun to share it here, too!
So this is how you play.
There were 8 contestants so draw 8 lines on a piece of paper.
Put the contestants’ names down under each line — I put down the names from the first one who commented to the last one. (yes, vertical here… Japanese way!)
and fold the paper a few times so you can’t see the names any more.
Now, you draw some “random” horizontal lines to connect pairs of adjacent vertical lines. Very randomly. You don’t think about anything, just draw lines as many as you want for as long as you’d like. Just make sure no two of the horizontal lines would touch each other.
I’m done with my rondom lines now.
Since the anniversary was on January 7th, I picked the 7th line. You can pick any line, randomly.
and you just follow the line towards the bottom of the paper, when you have the horizontal line, you make turns.
and….. the winner is…..
Kate from Look Book!!! Congratulations, Kate!!! You will be receiving the “I Blank You” card very soon!!
Thank you so much, everyone, I really appreciate all your support and nice comments!
Hope you all had a nice weekend.
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Rhian in London and I have been talking about this project since December last year and we finally agreed on this and I got to print with wood types — came out so nicely that I wanted to share it with you here, too.
My cheat sheet. Because all the letters are mirrored, it gets confusing when you are typesetting them so I printed this and brought it to the studio. It worked! No misspelling or upside down words.
The first 6 lines � there wasn’t enough “W”s so I had to break the line.
On the Vandercook Press:
The last 4 lines — I had to set it from the end of the first 6 lines.
and end result…. here!
I’m so happy with this! Rhian seems to be very happy as well!
Posted under letterpress, project
I first saw this over at Black*Eiffel (one of my favorite design blogs) and thought it was so cute and such a great idea, I had to share it here, too.
It’s Heart + Arrow Valentine’s Card Hanging Kit by SusyJack*.
You can use the arrow clip later, too, but I want to keep it this way throughout the year.
It also comes with an idea card! Great details!
They also carry more great stationaries, notebooks, cards, clips etc. click here to look around more.
Oh wow, I didn’t realize it’s already Friday! Happy Friday, everyone!!
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Thank you so much everyone who contacted me about this print… the 4th edition is here!! I printed more this time so it won’t run out so quickly, but I can only print so much at once (physical reasons – my arm is dead today by printing and carrying papers around) so they are again limited!
In the making of:
Green is back:
Red – I printed 50 of them for Valentine’s Day!
Black. The classic.
Gray – printed on peal white color this time (off-white, antique white) and it gives different feel, very warm.
Yellow on pearl white color.
and Orange!
Please visit my shop and look around! Thank you!
*Today is the last day to enter the giveaway!!!
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