Another great press from Apartment Therapy’s ohdeedoh — my Live What You Love letterpress print has been featured as one of the 10 Feel-Good Prints and Posters! This is so awesome, thank you so much!
Also, check out the other great prints and posters, they sure do make me feel good! :)
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I was delighted to see one of my Live What You Love prints featured in this great article on Etsy :: Etsy Success: Work It on Kaboodle. Thank you so much!!
I actually never used Kaboodle before, but after reading this article, I think I will try… have you been using it? Do you like it?
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Lovely Bekka from minted condition tweeted that she saw one of my Live What You Love prints at Dwell on Design! (See the great report from Bekka at Oh Joy! blog.)
What a nice frame and what an honor! Made me so happy, thank you so much, Bekka, for taking pictures!!! :)
Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July and are enjoying a nice long weekend… xo Hijiri
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I knew this day would come someday… (I am really grateful to my customers!) I printed Live What You Love Special Edition in poster size! It was another fun thing to print, working with linoleum is always nice :)
Please enjoy the behind-the-scene photos here…
Using the tracing paper on top of the letter “O” area where the heart would be and draw the heart shape…
Trace the heart shape onto linoleum…
and curving time!
On Vandercool press — after inking, curve any excess area off so it prints clearly.
Take the first color gray poster…
and print on top — I didn’t have to adjust the placement this time :) ((aww so cute… gets me every time…))
and pink!
Here are final products…
Live What You Love Letterpress Poster Special Edition with Blue Heart:
Live What You Love Letterpress Poster Special Edition with Pink Heart:
Hope you like them!
and I am wishing you all a happy and fun 4th of July weekend!!!
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Lovely Jen from Made by Girl told me about that my Live What You Love letterpress print has been in the Elle Decor UK magazine April issue a while ago and also, my friend Susan mentioned the same thing to me… but when I went to a bookstore to see it in my eye, the new issue was already out and so I thought I totally missed it…
and Jen just sent me the page — she found in her hard drive! Yes, it’s my print in this sleek kitchen! Yay!
(Click the image to see larger)
Thank you so much, Jen!! xo
p.s Does anyone out there have this April issue that you are done with and that I can have?? That would be awesome if you do! Let me know.
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I printed Live What You Love Special edition earlier this year in light grey with hot pink heart and it was gone so fast and I’d been asked about it so much that I decided to print another batch… this time in grey with red heart! One of my favorite color combinations :) To show my appreciation for all of you lovely readers and my dear supporters, I am giving away one of this prints! Thank you always so very much!!
Scenes from the studio…
The first color printed… without the heart.
Now, place the linoleum heart in the right place…
Adjust the placement and the height of the linoleum by placing papers on the bottom…
and there! Makes me smile every time :)
and here is the final product: Live What You Love Special Edition in Gray with Red Heart
To enter, please leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite color combination — 2 colors, please — by midnight EDT on Monday, May 17th and I will pick a winner and announce one next week!
You can be anywhere in the world, I will ship it to anywhere if you win :) Also, if you tweet about it (@hijirik) or if you mention about it on your blog, that gets you more entries — make sure to tell me by leaving another messages so I can count that, too! GOOD LUCK!! A big HEART to you all!! <3<3<3
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Just wanted to let you know that I have printed the whole collection of the Live What You Love 9th edition and they are all up and available at my etsy shop!
A couple brand new colors…
I had been wanted to print it in seaform green (one of my favorite colors!) and finally did! :)
Live What You Love letterpress print in Seaform Green:
and I wanted to try some new shade of blue… I didn’t know what to call this blue so I named it “Sweet Blue” — it’s in between baby blue and light steel blue. It’s quite sweet as you can see :)
Live What You Love letterpress print in Sweet Blue:
Along with these familiar colors, too. Oh, these are all printed on 100% cotton Lettra Fluorescent White paper (I’ve been printing on Pearl White) so the colors are more vivid and sharp, I think.
Live What You Love letterpress print in Grass Green (Yellow Green):
Live What You Love letterpress print in Light Grey:
Live What You Love letterpress print in Red:
Enjoy!!
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psst. I just listed the last one of each Live What You Love print from edition 7 and 8 + the special edition 2010. I usually keep the last one just in case my customers claim it lost or damaged… and these are unclaimed for while now so I decided to list them — if you see your color, please gram them as I might not be reprinting them :)
UPDATE :: ALL SOLD OUT! THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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Quick announcement for some shop updates…
LWYL 8th edition was already getting so low that I printed some of the 9th edition ((more colors to come!))
I must admit when the Vandercook is all pink, it makes me happy :)
Pink (I hadn’t printed 8×10 pink in a while!):
and a few people have asked me if I ever print this again… so I did! FLOSS mini letterpress prints are back :) Only 12 available!
Thank you for looking :)
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Just a quick shop update announcement… more Live What You Love posters are in! Please grab them as they are very limited in quantities… (it takes so long to print each one.)
Pink:
I hope your weekend will be filled with LOVE! :) Happy Friday!
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