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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Another shop updates today! (I have couple more things coming.) This has been on my mind for a long time and I am so happy to share…. Lace Heart letterpress prints! You all know that I am obsessed with heart-shape. I am planning on making more products with the hearts, but here are mini prints to start :) They are very limited, edition of 10-11 each!

Inspired by the lace heart, I created a polymer plate.

Hot off the press:

Lace Heart Letterpress Print in Black:

Lace Heart Letterpress Print in pink:

Cute hearts on your lovely wall <3

p.s I am leaving town in 2 weeks for about a month — please shop accordingly! :)

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Just listed new SMILE letterpress prints in new colors! This was a request from my customer and I ended up liking the color so much! Hope you like them, too… these are very limited in quantity (15-18 each) so please grab them if you like it!

Wood type blocks set on Vandercook press:

Hot off the press:

SMILE Letterpress Print in Lavender:

Here is another color version…

Hot off the press:

SMILE Letterpress Print in Pink:

Smile :) :) :)

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Father’s day is June 20th this year — have you gotten a card for your dad yet?!

I recently reprinted my F is for Father letterpress Greeting card :) For all the hard working dad… with love <3

and my alphabet greeting cards are almost A to Z! LOVE how they look all together! Can’t wait to complete the set… soon, soon…

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This print had been on my list of things to print and I am so happy to let you know that the HELLO Letterpress Print is now available at my etsy shop!

“Hello” is an universal word (I think everyone knows this word!) and when I see/hear the word, it always brightens up my day so I wanted to do the same for everyone. Perfect for your hallway to greet you, your family and guests :) or I have this in my studio as you may have already noticed from my new studio sneak peek photo, to welcome you in!

Wood type blocks set:

Hot off the press:

HELLO Letterpress Print in Yellow:

and Hello, another week…. please be good to me :)

p.s Have you entered the giveaway yet? It’s ending tonight!!

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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!):

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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When I printed E is for Easter card, I also printed 2 more alphabet greeting cards (now I have 21 different alphabet cards!) S and K.

S is for Sorry:

K is for Kudos:

Hope you like them :)

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