Let it swim
Just a quick announcement that I printed monogram letterpress notecards in Tiffany Blue/Green! (Oh, don’t you love that color?!)
And Letter T:
Speaking of Tiffany, I recently went there to clean my ring and necklaces, and oh my god, they came back as brand new jewelry! They weren’t kidding that it’d come back as good as new, I thought it was more! My ring was scratched so much, but all the scratches are gone now. Very impressed and happy me!
Yes, you heard it right. I am giving away this new SMILE letterpress print in yellow that I just printed! “SMILE” is absolutely one of my favorite words and the gray ones got all sold out so I decided to print more… in yellow this time!
It is in 5×7 inches, letterpressed by hand using vintage wood type blocks on 110lb, 100% cotton Lettra Pearl White paper with soy-based yellow ink – means it’s very eco-friendly! Limited to only 60 prints.
Here are some behind-the-scene photos…
Adjusting its placement and the impression.
Wood type all set, yellow ink set, and ready to print.
Hot off the press…
and here is the final product!
((the dachshund is from DAXDACHS in Ginza Tokyo and the little jewelry box is from Suga Jewelry.))
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To enter, please leave a comment in this post telling us “what makes you smile” by midnight EST on Monday, February 22nd and I will pick a winner and announce one on Tuesday, February 23rd (my birthday!). You can be anywhere in the world, I will ship it to anywhere :) Also, if you tweet about it 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! You have today, this weekend and Monday so hurry!
GOOD LUCK and BIG SMILE to all of you!!!
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!
Last year, I printed the LWYL special edition in black with red heart… and this year 2010, I printed the special edition in… one of my favorite color combinations, gray with hot pink heart! I really had fun printing as the heart always makes me happy :)
Type setting without letter “O” — yup, there would be a heart there…
Adjusting the placement.. I love the accidental typographic art. So great.
When everything is set, just print away…
Next, set the curved linoleum heart in the place in between where the letter L and V were placed.
Hand mixed hot pink on the press…
a pink heart :)
Even though you thought you placed in the right place, you always have to adjust around until you have it right.
and there it is!
Live What You Love Special Edition 2010:
I hope you enjoy the process and the new print!
p.s I printed more orange, too… It had been out of stock for a while… but it’s back :)
