Poppytalk Handmade Holiday Market launched today and I am participating again this month! Come look at my virtual booth here!
Hope you like what I selected for the booth… :)
Category: studio news
New: Holiday Kraft Paper Bags
Good morning! Hope you had a nice weekend… oh my god, New York City is already filled with holiday stuff, it’s crazy! And thanksgiving is already right here this week… eek soo fast!
Just wanted to let you know that I listed some more letterpress goodies to my etsy shop… yes, it’s for the holidays! :)
If you are planning to gift some papergoods, books, magazines, prints etc. to your loved ones this holiday, I printed something perfect and easy — paper bags to do the wrapping!
Yes, I used wood types to make it really special :)
Type setting — started with same spacing. I LOVE white on kraft paper so I used white ink.
and realized that the letter A and Y for the “holidays” can be tighter…
so adjust the spacing…
better!
and here are the final products…
Happy Holidays! Kraft Paper Bag (set of 5):
Now, the second one… “JOY” — I think it’s one of my favorite holiday words!
Again, started with same spacing and realized that the letter O and Y can be tighter…
Adjust the spacing…
Better!
Printing away…
and here they are. JOY Kraft Paper Bag (set of 5):
*I will have some kind of holiday offer to my blog readers this week so stay tuned!!
New: LWYL Posters
It was time to print more Live What You Love posters! I printed total of 6 colors in this batch and they are available right here at my etsy shop :)
But as usual, I wanted to share some pictures from the studio…
Type setting — look how beautiful the wood type blocks are! I am in love every time…
on Vandercook press:
Adjusting the placement of the letters — I love the overlapping part, I wanna make art by using this technique next time…
And here are the posters! Each poster is very limited in quantity… as this is really a lot of work…
Grey:
Red:
See the texture from the wood types?
Black (I never printed it in black so this is new!):
Brown (new as well):
It actually looks great with hard wood floor and brown furniture around the house.
and last but not least, Royal blue (this is new, too):
Thank you always for looking! :)
New: Letterpress Gift Tags
Good morning! Hello, another week! Hope you had a great weekend…
Over the weekend, I listed some more holiday stuff in my etsy shop — letterpress gift tags! They came out so cute, I hope they will add some specialness to your warm holiday thoughts… :)
For “Merry Christmas” and “Season’s Greetings” part, I used blind impression — meaning no ink, just the impression. The set up and everything is the same, just print without the ink:
Makes great deboss effect! I love it! (I forgot my camera at home this day, these were taken by my iPhone… sorry for a bit less quality photos…)
Next, I printed “To” and “From” with very light grey:
I used stripes of papers (Mohawk Superfine papers — very high quality papers) that were left over from another project. No waste on papers! Worked perfectly for this project.
And here are the final product….
Merry Christmas Letterpress Gift Tags:
Season’s Greetings Letterpress Gift Tags:
What do you think? Hope you like them! :)