Just a quick announcement that I printed monogram letterpress notecards in Tiffany Blue/Green! (Oh, don’t you love that color?!)
And Letter T:
Speaking of Tiffany, I recently went there to clean my ring and necklaces, and oh my god, they came back as brand new jewelry! They weren’t kidding that it’d come back as good as new, I thought it was more! My ring was scratched so much, but all the scratches are gone now. Very impressed and happy me!
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I have been wanted to add this in my shop for a long time and finally, I am happy to announce that the new monogram letterpress note cards are added to my shop!
I have all the letters, A to Z, but for now, available letters are S, N, K, T, M, A, F, V in yellow-orange and H, G, B, W, L in pink. If you don’t see your letters, but would like one, I will print them in any colors you’d like so make sure to contact me.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend, everyone!!! (I have a big working weekend ahead of me…)
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Are you more like a silver gal/guy or a gold gal/guy? I think I always liked silver better, but nowadays, I love gold things, too…. well, don’t we all love the metallic shiny things?! :) That is why I printed these cake note cards in silver and gold! They can be used for birthday, any wedding related things, very simple and gorgeous, so happy to announce that they are in my shop now.
I never worked with metallic ink before so this was so cool!
The gold Vandercook press. So pretty!
and here are the cards.
Available at my shop.
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I printed more versions of customizeable letterpress cards for different occasions at The Arm letterpress studio last weekend. The series is now completed!
Pink brackets version for sweet occasions:
Blue border version:
Available here.
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As you saw in my previous post, this is the card I was printing… “Costomizeable Letterpress Card“! You can use this card for almost any occasions, just fill in the top part with your message and specify the special day that you are sending the card for. You can use this for New Years, Valentine’s Day (circle Feb 14th in heart!), Anniversary, Save the date is a good one, party invitations, remider of the important date, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day……you name it, it is very versatile!
Here are some example…
“What a special day…” and when you open the card, it says “Because it is your birthday! Happy Birthday!”
Save the date card is a very good usage.
I’m planning to print with different color with different shape of the frame, too. Oh, and it is printed in 100% cotton paper and it comes with matching 100% cotton envelopes, too, so it is eco-friendly indeed.
Available at my shop now!
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I’ve learned a lot in the last class, it was a good class! Nothing new demonstration, but just printing with polymer plates and creating projects, I learned a lot. There are 2 more classes left so everyone started to finish up their own projects and so the press was busy all night.
I mixed Pantone color for the first time. The Pantone book at the school had a little note under the each color on what colors to mix and how much to mix to create the color so I followed the direction.
Tried to make this pretty green.
Take each color based on how much it says to mix.
and mix it together….
It came out nicely!
I printed note cards for gifts, myself, and Randy and me – all A2 flat cards.
This is one of the note cards I printed with letter H:
Love the impression: when using cotton paper, it shows the impression really beautifully! I was staring at them for a while. Can’t wait to print more stuff!
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I am so proud to announce my new letterpress card at my shop… “Draw Your Own Heart” card!
I’ve had this idea for a while and I’m so happy to see the final product. As you can see, there is a space in between “I” and “YOU” and you can draw your own heart to read “I HEART YOU” or you can fill out the space with anything you’d like to create your own message.
I used cotton papers and recycled envelopes so it is eco-friendly, too. I used vintage wood type blocks so the letters have a nice texture.
Available with red envelope:
and with pink envelope:
You can do “I MISS YOU” by drawing an eye with tears, you can draw a birthday cake and have it read as “I CELEBRATE YOU” or you can draw more than one heart to show how much you love this person etc. you can do a lot with this!
Have fun and be creative!
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I really wish for world peace and happy holidays to everyone in the world.
I hope this reaches out to the world…
“PEACE” print and card at my store.
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I can’t believe I only have 3 more classes left… I can say that I am more comfortable using Vandercook Press now, from beginning to the end, I can do everything by myself! (well, I’m sure I have a lot to learn still, but I feel like I got the basic of it)
We can now do whatever we want to print, work on our own projects, so I continued printing my holiday card first and some new prints for my shop.
I took wood type blocks and printed “PEACE” on my holiday card — with everything going on in the world, I really wish peace on earth….
Printed on top of my snowflakes linoleum prints from last week:
Printed some more “Live What You Love” in red and blue � Thank you, everyone, the green one is sold out!
Available at my Etsy store.
I ordered 100% cotton paper (means tree-free! I’m so excited about that) and so from here on, I am going to try as eco-friendly as possible with my work and store. These new prints are of course printed on tree-free paper and the paper is made for letterpressing so the impression of the print is more awesome than ever!
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I have been so busy that I forgot to do my Letterpress Monday yesterday!! Oops. It was canceled last time so it’s been 2 weeks since my last letterpress class and in the meantime, I have ordered my first polymer plate from Boxcar Press! It was recommended by my instructor and turn around was very fast and I had no problem getting my plate, if you are thinking of having your plate made, I recommend Boxcar Press, too.
I ordered 7.5×11 inches sheet with 12-13 projects on it – you can cut it and use it indivisually. You can reuse it as many times as you’d like.
Out of all the projects I made a plate of, I started with a little thing for myself – holiday card back stamp (front will come later) and my note cards. Just so I can practice printing with polymer plate, too.
On Vandercook Press:
You use this grid board – the plate comes with double-sticky tape so you just stick to it. After you are done printing, you can seal it back and save it in the ziploc bag that also comes with the plate for future use.
The cream color paper is for holiday card and the brown paper is for my little notes. To adjust the paper so it prints in center and to adjust the plate to exactly where you’d like to print, it takes time and practice, but once it’s all set, printing is fun and easy!
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My classmates were doing their own thing and they gave me their prints so I wanted to share them here.
The school has not only wood types and metal types, they also have lots of decorative wood blocks (and more stuff, I’m sure) and here’s some prints – so pretty!
ohh, I love this guy!
and another classmate was printing a bookplate with linoleum. What a good idea! The owl is cute, too.
I have to plan ahead so I can do as many letterpress projects in 5 more classes… I don’t want it to end, though!
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