New: Love Themed Letterpress Alphabet Greeting Cards

Yesterday was my first day of printing in 2010! I must admit… I had missed it so much! So happy that I get to print again :)

Keep that Valentine’s Day is right around the corner (can you believe it?) in mind, I printed 4 more letterpress Alphabet Greeting cards — all LOVE themed! I really enjoyed printing them and here are some behind the scene photos…

I decided to print all in red, one of my favorite colors and the color of love…
Setting wood type blocks and the polymer plates 2 at a time:

Checking impressions and adjusting placements:

Put red ink and…

print away.

2nd set — setting wood type blocks and the plates in the same position from the 1st set, but since the letters are in different width, adjusting a little here…

and print them away.

2nd color — I hand-mixed nice chocolate brown :)

Adjusting the placements… very important…

looking good :)

printing printing printing!

and here are the final products:

V is for Valentine:

L is for LOVE:

(I wanna frame this one — all the alphabet card is frame-able in US standard 5×7 frame — FYI)

X is for XOXO:

Lots of nice wood type texture on letter X.

I is for I Heart You:

I hope you like them! :)

Winter Vacation Sale

Thank you all so much for thinking of my work this holiday season, I hope you and your loved ones enjoy them so much.

My shop is now officially on vacation mode until I come back next year — but instead of totally closing it, I am keeping it open and having a winter vacation sale! Everything is 10-20% off…. but the catch is that you have to wait until I come back on January 21st (+few days for shipping) to get your order… I hope you are not in hurry… :)

(while supplies last)

I have a little bit more work to finish and then, off to Boston for Christmas! Safe travels if you are going somewhere this week! I will be posting my Christmas wishes to all of you tomorrow…. :) xo Hijiri

Live What You Love 8th Edition

Just wanted to let you know that I have printed Live What You Love 8th edition and they are all available at my etsy shop now. It is a little bit smaller edition since I only had 1 day, but some new colors to enjoy :) Hope you like them.

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This color is new… I call it “cerulean blue” — I love how it came out!

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Hot off the press:

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And here are all 7 of them.

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Red is a bit darker and richer this time and light grey is really warm this time. I printed green first time in a long time (since the first edition)!

SMILE :)

Inspired by my “thank you for shopping” cards I printed before (they are all gone…!) I printed “SMILE” mini prints for everyone in the world to share. It is absolutely one of my favorite words and just having the word around is actually really nice and makes me smile every time I see it :) so here it is… smile :)

On Vandercook Press:

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Hot off the press:

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and here is the final product. Available here.

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Shown in a white 5×7 frame with friend in a nut and NYC stamps.

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Hope you like it! Have a lovely smiley day!