Hiatus

Hello friends!

It's been a while! It's been a very busy summer--after 3 sets of custom wedding invitations, 2 custom save-the-dates and 1 round of custom baby announcements, I'm still here! I'll post fotos soon. For now, check out my very first listing on etsy! Yes, I know it's very age and gender specific, but it's a darn cute card! More to come!

A few more peeks...

This summer's been so busy with custom projects that I haven't had time to print greeting cards from all the plates I made earlier this spring. Today though, before I cleaned the rollers, I thought I'd throw on a few plates just to run a few test prints. The first one is a personalized notecard for a very sweet little 4-year-old girl {who also happens to be my cousin's daughter} named Caitlynn. She actually drew this darling bee and her super creative mom Nikki, who runs five.thirty.one.design, finished the design. I can't wait to print the real ones! It will be in black ink, but I had brown on the press here.....


This one below will be a happy birthday card {ya think?}, but I will use a more cheery color. The design will run off the card I'm thinking, so you won't see the full circle. Can't wait to post the real one when it's made. Maybe someday soon I'll have some cards to put on the etsy site.....Anyway, this was me having fun with some pretty cool tools in Illustrator to make the design. Any suggestions for colors?

Is it too early for Valentine's Day?

Here are a two greeting cards I ran a test print of today. The first one means "I love you" in Swedish and the second one my 4-year-old came up to me and said out of the blue, "Mommy, I heart you." I thought it was so sweet it needed to be printed on a card!

Dahlia Save the Dates

I finished these save the dates I was working on this weekend and they came out so beautiful {if I do say so myself!}! The orange and blue go so nicely together. Here are a few photos....all that's left is for them to be cut. And now, I'll be taking a little printing break while I send my rollers off to be recovered. Hopefully I'll get over the separation anxiety and they'll be back before I know it!

Another Sneak Peek!

This week I've been working on some save-the-date cards for a very lovely couple who are getting married this Fall. This save-the-date will be two colors, an orange/poppy color with navy blue text. This shows the progression from plate to finished piece of the first color. To apply the second color, the ink must be cleaned off the rollers, a new plate set up, registration set up and then all the sheets need to be fed one by one again with the new color on the rollers. It's a lot of work, but well worth the effort! I love how these are turning out so far. Stay tuned for the finished piece!

A close up of the dahlia printed in a poppy color. Sorry, the photos don't do these beautiful pieces justice!

Sneak Peek

Here's a little sneak peak at just a few of the designs I've been working on. Today I sent the files in to get some plates made, so I look forward to printing these soon!

happy birthday + personalized stationery

I got to printing some more this weekend and was experimenting with some color. I will be putting these *happy birthday* cards in my etsy shop soon, so stay tuned!

What's that saying about a cobbler's family whose shoes are always in need of repair? I figured I would treat myself {and my daughter} and print us up some of our own personalized stationery. This monogrammed card has a reverse effect--the solid purple area is printed, leaving the monogram itself to sort of *pop.* And let's give it up for rounded corners......doesn't everything look better with rounded corners?
Here are some cards I printed for my daughter. It had to be in pink, of course!