Let it swim
Just a quick announcement to let you know that the new Live What You Love posters are now available!
Type setting… it is like a puzzle. Lock all the letters in place.
I actually hadn’t printed in red before so I printed the red one this time.
I printed green ones again, this one is more like yellow-green.
and the popular yellow ones are back in stock.
They are limited to 10 posters each. So hurry if you are interested :)
Hope you had a nice weekend!
I can’t believe it’s my 7th edition now… thank you so much for all your support! I printed a lot more this time with lots of new summer inspired colors, I am so proud of each one.
Here we go…. type setting.
Adjust the placement and impression. This time, I made a little stronger impression :)
I always start with yellow. It’s easy to go to next one (always orange) without having the press clean so much. Yellow one is the most popular one, too. (The yellow poster/print was featured at Apartment Therapy! Thank you so much!)
Mixing orange. This time, the orange is more summery fresh sunkist orange! I quite like the freshness. Check it out here.
*”H” has lots of textures!
Mixing hot pink… 6th edition was so popular that I had to print more this time.
I always love the pink press. So cute. Hot pink one is available here.
*and “U” has a dotted line… :)
and… I thought maybe purple this time… started mixing pretty purple…
On the press. Looks good :)
printing away… limited edition of 40.
and here it is. Available here.
The classic red. It’s actually redder than ever. I wanted to make sure it’s solid pretty red.
Available here.
Nice texture throughout.
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((day 2))
Started with gray ones. I guess I didn’t take pictures! Click here for the gray ones. This time, it’s a little more warmer gray.
Printing the light blue. The 6th edition sky blue looks a little tiny bit different so I decided to call it differently. This is why I keep editions because I could never print them in the same way! Even within the same edition, each print is different :)
and inspired by summer, ocean, water… I wanted to print something different so I started to mix the colors together… and ended up liking this deep blue-green, printed limited edition of 50. Please grab them if you like it :)
and this is also new… yellow green!
Mixing, mixing…
I love this color. Very lively.
I also printed black ones, there are a little bit more black left from the 6th edition so I didn’t post pictures here, but it’s available!
Which color is your favorite?! :) Hope your week will be filled with what you love.
Continue on my shop updates… I mentioned that I’m printing more of the 6th edition of Live What You Love prints this week and I’m so happy to announce that I finally printed it in PINK! Lovely Weronica from En mammas dag (her blog looks always fantastic, I wish I could read it so badly…) and etsy user Tanekeya and a few people have been wanted to see this print in pink for a while, I hope you all like this new color…
Mixing ink – I love mixing ink by hand. So fun!
On Vandercook press – the press looks so pretty in pink :)
and here it is, Live What You Love letterpress print in pink:
I also printed more red, black, and grey and you can find them all in my etsy shop!
Sometimes, the etsy users contact me for custom prints and I try my best to see what I can do for them. When Rosa contacted me about this custom print, I thought it was such a cute idea and so I printed a few more for my shop, after Rosa’s permission, of course. I wanted to share the “making of” here, it was so fun to print!
Remember the hand-drawn heart shape from my coming soon post last week? It was for this special edition…
Trace the shape onto the block:
Start curving the block – start with the outline.
Curve off the rest so that only the heart shape will be printable.
After printing my 6th edition of Live What You Love prints, take out the letter “O” from LOVE, replace with furniture so it’s locked in the place and…
print first color. Without “O”
When done printing a few, take out the wood type blocks, and carefully place the linoleum block into where the “O” was and lock the block with more furniture.
Give the roll and ink and see if the height is right, if the block is curved right… to adjust the height, place tissues or papers underneath the block.
To adjust the block, just curve off the unnecessary part (otherwise, it’ll print on the paper)
and print the second color….!
I wanted to use linoleum block to have the same kind of texture and imperfection and I think it worked so well!
Thank you again Rosa for the cute idea!