Came across this pig print by Ice Cream Social Paper. Isn’t it so cute?! Makes me smile!

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Lindsay from Lindsay Wilson Photography had another great project for me (did you see the previous post?) to help her create custom prints with couple of quotes by Charles Bukowski. They came out so nicely, I wanted to share!

Since it was 5×7 prints, I used smaller wood type blocks. With my computer printouts, pick up all the letters and try to form sentences…

All the letters picked, spelling double-checked…

Start locking the letters. Takes a long time…

Adjusting impressions and placements… I’m printing both quotes in one paper here.

After everything is set, ink the press and print…

For his name, I ordered a polymer plate. Setting up the plate on the base, ready to print his name separately.

and here are the final products!

Yes, perfectly imperfect, I just can’t get enough of the wood type loveliness… Lindsay and her husband told me the nicest things, made me happy so much! Thank you for another fun and wonderful project!

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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!):

Yellow:

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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I’ve been a big fan of Daily Drop Cap as I talked about it before, and now, lovely Jessica Hische has an individual letter print available at her shop! You can pick any letters from Alphabet 1 to 3 and have it on your wall :) I might have to get my H…

Happy Friday, everyone!

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Much Love by Ashley G. Inspired by a vintage heart doily… it is so calling me, I must answer…

Perfect for the black and white area for our house… It can go with these pillows, too…

Here is a red one. Few more colors are available and they all look so cute, I want to have them all if I could… :)

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Good morning. I hope you had a nice weekend and are ready for the new week…

Let’s start the week with a pretty print — Wild Garden (kaleidoscopic) from Yumi Yumi. Isn’t it lovely? I like that it almost looks like a heart shape and the colors are just so pretty. I first saw this over at elephantine, I had to ask where it is from.

and yes, the details, details, details. Very nice.

Check out more of her work from here.

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I can’t believe it took me this long to post about this project… but I am so happy to report about my Live Now project (click this link to see the project details) I participated!

I knew from the beginning I wanted to print something with wood types because you just can’t get that same texture on computer, I thought it’d be so special for the project… so I printed a quote from William Arthur Ward — “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; If you can dream it, you can become it.”

My wood type blocks are limited and so when it’s a long sentence, sometimes I don’t have enough letters…

so that I have to print some words first…

and then, set the type to fill in the blank space…

to complete the first half of the quote.

Second part of the quote, I had all the letters so I could print all at once.

After I printed these, I scanned them in, send it to Eric, and he took it from there — and it’s been up on the “Live Now” site since! Thank you so much!!

I actually printed a few more to share at my shop… if you are interested, it is available here!

Limited to only 20 sets :)

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Spotted on brainstorm‘s Flickr account. Fell in love at first sight.

I love some colored leaves… awesome details!

Thursday morning inspiration… have a great day :)

p.s have you enter the Live What You Love print giveaway yet? It ends tonight! GOOD LUCK!!

p.s.s Silver and Gold Cake cards are now with free shipping within US and to Canada! :)

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Art insert, School of Fish by west elm. Caught my eye.

It’s on sale and it is free shipping until today! What a bargain!

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I came across these prints by More. an artist workspace and I thought they were awesome! (and unfortunately, it is sold out… sigh…)

It is letterpressed (the yellow) on top of the digital prints — I just love the spontaneous yellow graphics on the black and white digital prints! How fun. Inspires me to work on my next prints…

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