Tag: letterpress print

Floss

Posted on by Hijiri

I made some custom mini print for myself yesterday… “FLOSS”! I know, it’s little random, but I always forget flossing my teeth, which I am supposed to everyday, and our bathroom needed (well, I wanted) one more art on the wall so why not remind myself to floss everyday while I’m in the bathroom!

I picked this pretty blue to match our toothbrush holder / soap holder…

Wood type setting:

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I printed 12 or so… (it just doesn’t make sense to print one…)

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It is 5×7, fits in the 5×7 standard frame perfectly and it looks great in our bathroom!

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Now I have no excuse. I am going to floss everyday.

The rest of the 11 prints are available at my shop… :) — ALL SOLD OUT now, thank you so much!!!

New: Cucina Mini Letterpress Print

Posted on by Hijiri

Do you have art in your kitchen? I have a few and I have been wanted to print something just for the kitchen because having an art in the kitchen makes it fun and special. So why not something that says “kitchen”… so here it goes, my new mini “Cucina” letterpress print (cucina = kitchen). I hope you like it :)

The first color yellow — I had this printed for a while, I was just waiting for the right time to print the 2nd color.

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Setting up the plate and the base.

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Testing the impression and the placement — adjust whatever it needs to be adjusted here. (I also love the blind impression!)

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Put the second color on the press, ready to print!

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Printing away…..

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and here it is. Now available at my etsy shop!

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Let me know what you think! :)

Iris Letterpress Print

Posted on by Hijiri

As you saw the “making of”… here is the finished letterpress print! Can you see I’m so ready for the spring? :)

I started using soy-based ink now and of course on 100% cotton paper so it is eco-friendly all around!

This means “iris” in Japanese (Sho-bu/Ayame)

All the overlapping part came out so nicely!

Available here.

New Print in Progress #3

Posted on by Hijiri

Continue reporting on my new print in progress… (see #1 and #2 also)

Mixing the 4th color – light peach color:

on Vandercook Press:

Printing on top of where I left off… the background completed:

Mixing the 5th color… before:

and after:

on the press:

Printing on the background: love the overlapping part! (the studio doesn’t have a good light so all the pictures come out not as good as I hope they would, unfortunately…)

Mixing the last color – violet:

on the press:

and it’s almost there!

I will have another post about this print later soon so you can see it more in details! I shipped all 43 prints to Kelly yesterday, I can’t wait to see what other people did! It was really fun working on this as you can see :)