New from Hello! Lucky

May 22, 2012 // kristen // 1 replies

I am ALL about these awesome new letterpress greeting cards at Hello! Lucky. The new designs feature illustrations from Hello! Lucky, Esther Aarts, and Julia Rothman, and I love the clever use of overprinting (two ink colors overlapping to create a third color) in many of the designs.

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images from Hello! Lucky

NSS ’12 Preview : Sky of Blue Cards

May 21, 2012 // kristen // 0 replies

Sky of Blue Cards (booth #2059) is introducing lots of fun, new letterpress cards designs at this year’s National Stationery Show, including 16 new everyday greetings and 30 new seasonal cards. The simple, modern designs feature everything from bold, standalone typography to sweet, whimsical illustrations with clever, smile-inducing sentiments. Here’s just a bit of eye candy from the new letterpress collections:

images from Sky of Blue Cards

Invitation Tuesday : Invitation Crush Roundup #10

May 08, 2012 // kristen // 1 replies

Looking for a little wedding invitation inspiration? Here’s a taste of what I’ve been featuring over at Invitation Crush lately and, if you’re a fan of chalkboards, hand-lettering, retro style, and double-decker buses, then I think you’ll find something that you like here:

Above, clockwise from top : a collection of chalkboard-themed wedding invites (shown are Chalkboard Wedding Invitations by Alethea and Ruth for Minted); from the Fresh Love wedding collection by Yours is the Earth; from the Hermie Suite by MaeMae Paperie; Abigail + Aled’s whimsical letterpress wedding invitations (design by Aled Lewis and printing by Blush); from the Maggie Collection by Weswen Design

images from their respective sources

May The 4th Be With You

May 04, 2012 // kristen // 0 replies

Apologies for the lack of “Weekly Wrap” posts lately, but they should be making a comeback starting next week. Things have been pretty hectic around here over the past couple of weeks – lots of client work (yay!) and other projects going on – but I want to wish you all a very happy Star Wars Day!

May the 4th be with you (still punny!), and a great weekend may you have.

Above : Star Wars Letterpress Cards by Green Bird Press

Card to Art

April 30, 2012 // kristen // 3 replies

I always get excited when I spot paper goods that do double duty, and Card to Art brings something so unique to the “card as art print” arena. At first, their lovely letterpress cards appear to be fairly straightforward, but when you open the card you’ll find a die-cut rectangle which, when flipped to the front of the card, becomes the perfect mat. Two removable inserts provide ample space for the giver of the card to write their message, and they easily slide when you’re ready to transform the piece from greeting card to art print. Simply place the matted print into a frame – the cards are created to fit perfectly into most 5″ x 7″ frames – and you’re good to go!

Card to Art currently has two different series, the recently released “Flowers” series (below) and the “Hot and Cold” series (bottom), featuring work by Peter Morris of Pocket Wookie, Adrian Hanft, Paul Berkbigler, Eric Nyffeler of Doe Eyed, Bennett & Suzanne Holzworth of Worth it Studio, Nicole Gustafsson of Nimasprout.