Category Archives: invitations

New letterpress wedding invitation collection / Step 5 (almost ready!)

So…it turns out being wayyyyy pregnant can take it out of you when you least expect it! Actually, I already knew that, but it does mean that (between naps and moving a lot slower than usual) I’m taking advantage of any and all energetic moments to finish up a couple of big things, including getting

Changing seasons

We took the opportunity for a little last minute pre-baby downtime last week…hence the blog silence! Harvest moon rising over the Cyclone during the Brooklyn Cyclones game this past Saturday evening We had a great week of things (not to mention gorgeous weather!) and, in addition to getting a serious amount of cleaning and organizing

New letterpress wedding invitation collection / Step 4

I spent about 7 hours printing on the Vandercook SP-15 at The Arm yesterday and man, oh man, do I have a lot of invitations to show for it! The current stats: I finished printing all the invitations; 3 designs and 4 color schemes, for 12 invitations in total, and several of each. I also

Custom travel journals and finished fill-in invitations

Map journals, in the works I’ve had a lot of requests lately for travel journals featuring vintage maps for the covers, both in Coptic stitch bindings, and as simple perfect bound journals. With almost any book, the cover options are endless, and one of my favorite sources, besides large reprints of old maps, is old

2010 letterpress calendars are coming!

I spent this afternoon printing the remainder of the new fill-in invitations, and you can check out a few shots of the last color scheme below. These are a goldenrod yellow ink with a pewter-y grey. These will be up on Etsy tomorrow…today just wasn’t happening! And, 2010 letterpress calendars are officially started! I printed