Pretty Poppies Letterpress Stationery

Pretty poppies letterpress stationery personalized with your name with a beautiful script font. These lovely set of cards will evoke the warmth of your thoughts to your family and friends. Each card is hand printed, one card at a time, on my antique printing press on plush 100% cotton cover weight paper for a wonderful impression that you can see and touch!

Lovely Letterpress Lace Wedding Thank You Cards with Script Names

These letterpress printed cards feature lovely lace blind debossed ( inkless impression) on plush white 100% cotton paper. Names look so special with this beautiful script type.  Don't you love the unique and lovely ampersand, too?  These letterpress printed cards are wonderful for your wedding thank you messages or for everyday correspondence.

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.

Playing with Numbers

Now that dreaded tax returns have been filed, here's a collection of marvelous finds from etsy.
Actually, it was not fun "playing" with those tax numbers, but I enjoyed creating this playful collection.
You can check out these items and see what a wonderful mix of handmade, vintage and supplies that these Etsy shops offer.

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!