Letterpress Christmas Cards

Christmas cards have been on my mind lately as I stuff envelopes and update my address list, so here's a collection I made of some of my favorite holiday letterpress cards. As you know, I'm a sucker for all-things letterpress. There’s simply nothing that compares to the handmade quality of letterpress; something about it just makes me want to melt.

 Enjoy!

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National Stationery Show

Did I mention that I love stationery? Given it is what I do, I could look at these pictures for hours! Since the 2011 National Sta­tionery Show is com­ing up in just a few days, I thought I'd feature some of my favorite booths and designs from last year's show. I found all of these images on my favorite stationery blog, Oh So Beautiful Paper...

Ladies of Let­ter­press, Pis­ta­chio Press, Thomas Print­ers, May Day Stu­dio, Paper Mill Designs, Ink & Iron, Hazel and Vio­let, Dandy Lion Press, and Fly­wheel Press all had wonderful designs!

Night Owl Paper Goods had a beautiful booth full of their sig­na­ture wood veneer sta­tionery and let­ter­press cards, as well as new note­books and a sneak peek at their 2011 calendars.

Avie Designs pulled together a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of cards, invi­ta­tions, and gift wrap..

Above is the Sycamore Street Press booth, Eva and Kirk used char­coal gray fab­ric back­drops and a sweet paper gar­land to high­light their new let­ter­press cards, prints, and 2011 poster-style calendar.

Check their Oh So Beau­ti­ful Paper for many more photos and details...

Mother's Day Cards

Mr. Boddington’s Studio

"A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people,
promptly announces she never did care for pie".  ~Tenneva Jordan

Tallu-la

 Ink & Iron

Avie Designs

Spring Olive

Wild Ink Press

And finally, Download this free greeting card, then check off your wants needs.

Happy Mother's Day to all of the Mom's and Mom's-to-be out there!! Here's a picture of my beautiful mama on her wedding day! I love you mom and so glad we get to celebrate this weekend!

Bringing the Art to the Cart

A good friend emailed me this incredible DIY blog yesterday, Centsational Girl, and I was hooked. I love DIY projects and have refinished and painted a lot of the furniture in our house, so of course, I fell in love with her ideas and her before and after pics. I love bargains and making something ugly beautiful again, so if you're like me, you must check this blog out.

On Centsational Girl I saw a link to Big Cartel – the simple shopping cart for artists. Don't I feel out-of-the-loop! I didn't know there was another ETSY-type of online site.

I could spend HOURS on this site, browsing through paper goods and other handmade items, but I need to get back to work. Maybe someday I can start my own line of papergoods for sale on sites like this...hmmm....really must get to work now. Thought I'd share this with you in case you wanted to waste enjoy some online retail therapy this morning. 

So, here are a few of my favorite paper good finds on Big Cartel...

enclosure cards from Tutta Lou Press

 adorable letterpress calling cards from Satsuma Press

personalized recipe cards from inkello

2-Day Hooray Days of the week collection by ormolu

save the date by magpie works

 

Cute cards from Satsuma Press. Always love their work — so simple and clean.

clever letterpress card from old tom foolery

So, what's on your wish list?

Springtime!

It's springtime, which makes me want to get outside and get my hands dirty...so yesterday I decided to plant some annuals in front of our house. Even though this wasn't a huge space and not a lot of yard work (like raking leaves!), I am sore today. Sad, huh? The weather was beautiful and sunny, and I have a horrible racerback back sunburn to show for it!

Havin fun yet Bruner?

Love these Tag Team Thompkins’ letterpress prints - check them out on etsy. I'm hoping this spanish proverb is true for us as well :)

So...Speaking of springtime, I am into bright colors right now. Not sure why (since I usually gravitate toward neutrals and more soothing tones)... maybe it's the weather and the season, but here are some images to brighten up your Monday!

How fun is this little girls room?? I'm stashing this one away in case I need to use it!

image credits: Southern Living, House Beautiful, House of Turquoise

cutest baby shower invitation EVER

Baby shower invitations are on my mind...not because I'm pregnant (sorry mom!), but because I'm in the process of designing several ones for friends. When I saw this invitation designed by Dinara - I just about melted! She designed these hand lettered invi­ta­tions for her upcom­ing baby shower!  Dinara is expect­ing a baby girl in May, so when it came time for baby shower invi­ta­tions it was only fit­ting that Dinara apply her illus­tra­tion and hand let­ter­ing skills to the design.



Dinara worked with Lau­rie from Lucky Bee Press, who pro­vided 2-color let­ter­press print­ing in pink and yel­low.  Aren’t they adorable?

So sweet!  Thanks Dinara and Oh So Beautiful Paper for this discovery!
{image cred­its: dinara mirtalipova}

call me

 

I love calling cards, and these simple letterpress cards are 15% off only this weekend. Kim from Paper Lovely has designed this adorable line of letterpress calling cards, offering seven design options, from modern stripes to pretty swirls and flourishes.

Kim is offering 15% off the calling card collection from her Etsy shop through this weekend only — just use the code CALLME15 at checkout!

Happy Friday everyone! xoxo

calendars...

{Pis­ta­chio Press}

Although we're two months into 2011...it's still not too late to buy a new calendar, right? Here are some of my favorite 2011 Calendar designs...

{Ink + Wit}

 {Paper-Source}

{laura macchia}

{snow & graham}

{satsuma press}

xo