Tag: letterpress card

Letterpress Class 8

Posted on by Hijiri

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!

Draw Your Own Heart Letterpress Card

Posted on by Hijiri

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!

PEACE on Earth

Posted on by Hijiri

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.

Letterpress Class 7

Posted on by Hijiri

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!