Ocean coral personalized letterpress printed stationery

Ocean coral letterpress printed stationery, personalized with your name. Each card is printed with my antique Chandler Price printing press, one card at a time. First for the coral images and then the printing of your name with my hand set metal type. Printing on plush 100% cotton card stock creates a marvelous impression that you can see and touch.

Ocean coral letterpress personalized stationery.

With Aloha Letterpress Printed Cards

 Mountain Apple Bossoms with their delicate tendrils. 

Share some warm aloha with these lovely letterpress printed Hawaii Mountain Apple cards. The folded cards in the top feature `Ohi`a` ai,  Hawaiian mountain apple blossoms. When the ruby red blossoms appear, it is a sign that the fruits will soon follow. After the red tendrils fall, the fruits will grow from the base of the blossoms. In a few months, the luscious red fruits will be juicy and sweet.

Aloha Pineapple Letterpress Cards with Letterpress printed sacks.

These beautiful golden yellow letterpress printed pineapple cards are perfect for sending your aloha or mahalo. This card set is enclosed in a clear box and then tucked into a cotton muslin sack that has also been letterpress printed with a golden yellow pineapple.

Sweet Succulents Letterpress Printed Cards

Hello, sweet succulents! Hand illustrated and letterpress printed greeting cards in a golden green. Just right for sending a warm hello. And believe it or not, we do have a lot of cactus, the prickly pear cactus, on the island of Maui.

It's believed that the cactus was brought to Hawaii to feed cattle in the early 1900s and as you drive about the island, you just might see some.

Lovely Thank You Letterpress Cards Names and Hearts

Finished cards after printing first with blind debossed letterpress type and then a second printing with beautiful red hearts. Blind debossing combined with an inked image or by itself makes a marvelous impression with a wonderful tactile and visual sensation! 

Ki'i Pohaku Petroglyph Letterpress Stationery Aloha Letterpress

New collection of Ki'i Pohaku letterpress printed stationery featured in Lei Chic Honolulu Magazine!
Ki'i Pohaku Letterpress Stationery New Collection

Featuring Hawaiian ki'i pohaku petroglyphs from Aloha Letterpress.

Share some aloha letterpress stationery

You can almost hear the ukulele strumming as these lovely hula maidens dance in these new letterpress printed cards. Each card is hand printed on my Chandler Price antique printing press for a delightful impression on plush 100 percent cotton card stock. Share your aloha today!

Dragonfly Letterpress Stationery with Muslin Gift Sack

Dragonfly Letterpress Stationery with a Muslin gift sack now available.  Charming, peaceful purple dragonflies are letterpress printed on plush white 100 percent cotton card stock for these pretty mini cards. With its A1 size, it measures 3.5 x 5 inches, and is USPS mailable. A set of 10 cards and envelopes are placed in a clear box and then tucked into a letterpress printed cotton muslin sack--great for your messages and for gift giving!

New Script and Dragonflies Letterpress Stationery

These newly printed letterpress cards feature delicate and detailed dragonflies and your name printed in an elegant script font.  These cards are printed on thick white 100% cotton paper for such a delightful impression. I love the beauty of this vintage Liberty script type. Each personalized card that I print usually begins with hand setting the metal type one letter at a time and then setting it into the chase (metal frame) with wooden furniture. The images and metal type are printed separately so each card is actually printed twice on my antique printing press. 

Wispy Wildflowers Personalized Letterpress Stationery

Newly printed and designed, these personalized letterpress stationery features delicate wildflowers that seem to sway in the breeze. The process begins with working on an illustration. Then I send the file in for processing into letterpress plates. Once I have the plate, I set up my printing press with its rollers and then hand mix the inks for the particular color. Place a bit of ink on the inking disc and by pressing the treadle, the rollers will spread the ink on the ink disc. Fit the plate into the chase with the wooden furniture ( it's sort of like working with a jigsaw puzzle at times), and then place the chase onto the press. Do some test prints and then print! The work is not over though! The personalized name is hand set and then that is printed. Each image and each hand set name is printed one at a time, so that means for a set of 20 cards, each card is printed twice. For multi-colored prints, that means cleaning the ink from the press and rollers and then re-inking the rollers and ink disc with the next color. Cleaning can take up a lot of time because the ink must be removed carefully so that the next color used will not be affected by ink residue from the previous printing.

Personalized Letterpress Stationery From the Sea

After the past couple of weeks of rainy weather, I'm ready for more sunshine, blue skies, and warmth!
Yes, it rains in paradise. Hot off the press, these new letterpress printed stationery made me think of sun, surf and a walk along the seashore.

Printed in a luscious orange mango hue, a trio of Sea Stars and two charming Seahorses are featured in these sets of letterpress stationery.

When swimming in Hawaiian waters, you will enjoy seeing a variety of beautiful fish, but Sea Stars and Seahorses are more elusive and perhaps that's what makes them even more precious and lovely.

Happy Valentine's Day Letterpress Love Cards

Give your heart away with these newly printed letterpress stationery. Wonderful for Valentine's Day or anytime of the year. Hot off the printing press, these fun cards are a perfect way to show you're thinking of your friends and family!

With Warm Aloha Letterpress Cards

With warm aloha letterpress cards from paradise! 

A warm Aloha Friday to you!

Hand illustrated palm leaves seem to sway in the breeze in these letterpress cards. Printed on plush white 100% cotton with a lovely script aloha greeting.

These folded cards are 4.25 x 5.5 inches and come with matching aqua blue envelopes. Wonderful to use for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, thank you messages or just to share your warm thoughts.

You are my Sunshine Sunflower letterpress stationery

Personalized letterpress stationery of gorgeous sunflowers brimming with honey gold goodness. Add some sunshine to your correspondence! These lovely sunflowers will add to the warmth of your thoughts and evoke smiles. Each card is printed one card at a time on thick, slightly textured 100% cotton cover weight paper for a delightful impression.

Delicate dragonfly personalized letterpress stationery

With its gossamer wings, a trio of dragonflies are featured in these newly printed personalized letterpress cards. These dragonflies are blind debossed (inkless impression) onto thick white cotton cover weight paper for a lovely tactile appeal. I love the fine details of these dragonflies and complemented with your name, it makes for delightful stationery!  

Did you know that dragonflies only eat when they are flying? They catch their prey in the air by grasping it with their feet. They are also among the first winged creatures to evolve about 300 million years ago!  In Japan, the dragonfly is a symbol of happiness, courage and power.

Whimsical Octopus Personalized Letterpress Stationery

With graceful tentacles waving, these personalized letterpress stationery feature a delightful octopus in cool aqua blue. Printed one card at a time, the old fashioned way, on my antique printing press on plush white 100% cotton cover weight paper.

In Hawaii, the he'e is a beloved creature with its amazing beauty and delectable taste. Ancient Hawaiians enjoyed eating he'e and the locals continue to relish it today as a pupu or appetizer.

Fresh new colors for leafy Aloha Letterpress stationery

Personalized letterpress stationery with your name and leafy
ornamental borders in aqua blue and tangerine orange.

Time for some refreshing new colors with these personalized letterpress cards. I love the cool aqua blue and deep tangerine orange with these leafy ornamental borders and personalized names. The first prints I made were in a purple plum and I had been meaning to print some different colors. A lovely client's request finally brought about these sets in delicious hues.

To create these cards, I first hand set the metal type for the names into the chase (metal frame) with wooden furniture. Then I also set the individual leafy metal ornaments into another chase. I hand mix a combination of inks to create the aqua blue and the tangerine orange inks.

After placing some aqua blue ink onto the ink
disk, I ink the rollers. I have a Chandler Price
press with a treadle, and as I press the treadle,
the rollers glide over the ink disk until the rollers are covered with the ink. Then I lock the chase with the leafy ornaments into the press. After doing some test prints, I then print each card, placing one card at a time onto the platen. After the leafy border is printed, I remove the card and continue to feed another card until all of the cards are printed. I then remove the chase with the ornaments and proceed to print the name, again one card at a time, measuring and making adjustments for the centering of the name.

Once the aqua blue set is finished, I must clean the press rollers, the ink plate, the leafy metal
ornaments,  removing all of the aqua blue ink. The whole process is repeated for the next set with the tangerine orange stationery. Letterpress printing takes time and it can be rather meditative and soothing once I am in rhythm with my press. Each time I use my antique printing presses, I am awed by the craftsmanship of these marvelous printing presses. They are not as quick as printing with a computer and printer, but the effect is one that you must see and hold in your hands to appreciate the lovely tactile impression of images and words on plush cotton paper.

New Sunny Yellow Poppy Cards

These new personalized letterpress cards feature a lovely poppy and your name in sunny yellow. What a delightful way to add some warmth to your messages. I hand set your name with metal type and there's no additional waiting for a plate to be processed. These cards may also be ordered in different colors. Available now at my Aloha Letterpress Etsy shop.