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Get 10% off Letterpress Lovers Club memberships in time for Valentine's Day! Use coupon code CUPID2012 at checkout. Applies to 3, 6, and 12-month memberships! Visit our Etsy shop to purchase. Offer expires February 14th, 2012. Enjoy!
What is the Letterpress Lovers Club?
Letterpress treats delivered monthly to your mailbox! Join our Letterpress Lovers Club - the letterpress-of-the month club where the recipient will receive a unique letterpress stationery item once a month for the duration of their membership.
Each month the item will be different - a fun surprise in your mailbox - and will include an assortment of stationery items such as notecard or greeting card sets, art prints, gift tags, letterpress printed packaging items, seasonal stationery pieces, etc.
Buy a membership for yourself or as a gift for someone special!
ink&paper from Ben Proudfoot on Vimeo.
I was recently sent a link to the above documentary by Alex Kefalos at Wits Pictures. I get sent quite a few clips from people wanting them to be posted on the blog, and more often than not they are just short clips of a Heidelberg Windmill's magnificent parts moving together to create something beautiful. There's nothing wrong with that of course, but I was excited to see this little documentary was something different and special.
I think this is one of the first little movies that wasn't entirely promotional in nature. Here instead is a real look inside the situation that many letterpress printers and their suppliers find themselves in. Letterpress printing is not the glamorous industry that many people think it is. I think it is assumed sometimes that because letterpress is expensive, that it means printers are making lots of cash. The reality is that our supplies are very expensive and hard to find, parts and equipment is scarce, and that our work involves lots of physical labor (blood, sweat and tears - literally). And, as the film shows, it's not at all easy to make a living - especially during a recession.
So on that note, I invite you to watch the documentary yourself and see what you think. Thank you Alex for sending it to us and to Ben Proudfoot and company for putting together this more realistic view of the state of the printing and print supply industry.
We have some extra notecards and other bits and pieces of letterpress stationery on our shelves that we'd like to give away to the first three people to respond.
Here are the rules:
- you have to be from Canada
- you have to "like" our Facebook page
- you have to leave a comment on our Facebook page (don't leave your comment here, go to Facebook) answering the following question:
If you had an unlimited wedding budget, which Vancouver vendor would you pick for your:
a) wedding venue
b) wedding photographer
c) wedding planner, and
d) wedding cake designer
If you are already married that's ok, just go ahead and list who you would have chosen for your wedding if money was not an issue.
First three people to post will be sent a letterpress package. Please email us your mailing address once you've posted on the page.
Enjoy!
So we are a little early - it's not even New Year's Eve yet, but I wanted to get a head start on the blog in case I don't get to it over the next couple of days. New Year's is never really a huge deal around our house, but it is what I consider the last weekend of the holidays. This year our holidays started early with a family trip to Maui, then to Vancouver Island for Christmas with my husband's family, and then back home for New Year's. I am glad to be back and spending some time cleaning around the house and getting things organized for 2012. One of my next big tasks is to go get myself a daytimer - my mother normally buys me the same one each year, but this year my parents are in California for 3 months, so we only really gave each other gifts that didn't need to be shipped. I am lost without my daytimer! Even though I have an iPhone, I just prefer to do my scheduling on paper - and I don't think this will ever change. Do you use your smart phone calendar or are you stuck to your paper daytimer like me?
In the spirit of getting organized, we just finally got the Sunlit Letterpress Facebook page set up. We used to have a group page back in the day, but it seems Facebook got rid of those and set up new business pages, so the old page got lost. So far we've gotten some portfolio shots loaded and a few other things, but we plan to also post news, event listings, coupons and other info here too. I hope you will "like" our page and join the group - we will send notices of new products and coupon codes out to our Facebook page members. I will be posting a clearance coupon for our Holiday 2011 goods shortly.
In other news, back before the holidays (on November 30th to be exact) we attended the BC Professional Wedding Awards Gala at Boulevard Casino here in Vancouver and Sunlit Letterpress was presented with the 2011 Best Wedding Stationery Award for BC. We are thrilled! We received a lovely trophy, an amazing bouquet, had oodles of photos taken and got to meet the "Wedding Belles" from TV and Fred Lee from CBC (Mr. Vanhattan). It was a fun night and on top of winning our award, my husband and I met old and new friends from the BC wedding industry and even got to play "Top Chef" judges as five different caterers were competing at the event for a catering award. From ahi sliders to smoked tomato shrimp, we enjoyed a feast of small bites. We also got to play around in the photo booth for awhile with props like mustaches and boas - do photobooths ever get old?
So that concludes this latest update - we wish you all a fantastic (and safe) New Year! If you are planning a wedding in 2012 and need letterpress invitations or are in need of custom letterpress stationery for your business or personal correspondence, please contact our studio - we look forward to working with you!
It's that time of year again...well, sort of. I know that in the US that Thanksgiving hasn't taken place yet, but in Canada it has, and even though I hate pushing a holiday too early, the fact is that our studio will be closed at the beginning of December. So...if you want to get your hands on some letterpress goodness before Christmas it will have to happen soon in order to arrive in time for the holidays :)
This year has been pretty busy on a work and on a personal level (with a two-year-old running around), and this has left me with less time for personal design projects like holiday cards. This year we only have one new letterpress holiday card available for purchase, and a few sets left over from last year's "peace and joy" batch of cards.
You can purchase the new "happy holidays" letterpress card here in our Etsy shop.
And the "peace and joy" letterpress cards here in our Etsy shop.
LLC Subscriptions on Sale Until November 27th!
As a gift for the letterpress lover in your life, we invite you to purchase a membership for him/her in our Letterpress Lovers Club - a "letterpress-of-the month" club where the recipient will receive a unique letterpress stationery item (or items) once a month for the duration of their membership.
Each month the item(s) will be different - a fun surprise in your mailbox! - and will include an assortment of stationery items such as notecard or greeting card sets, art prints, gift tags, letterpress printed packaging items, seasonal stationery pieces, etc.
A limited number of 3-month, 6-month, and (new this year!) 1-year memberships are for sale.
(If your order is a gift for someone else, please be sure to specify their mailing address in the "NOTES TO SELLER". A membership card will be sent noting your name as the sender of the membership gift. ***IF THIS IS A HOLIDAY 2011 GIFT, please note this in the "NOTES TO SELLER" and if you prefer we will hold the first mailing for your gift recipient until AFTER Christmas and send their first mailing in January 2012.***)
Buy your gift subscriptions before November 27th and save 10% - use Coupon Code "HOLIDAY2011" at checkout.
A big thank you to those of you who buy holiday cards from us every year - we really appreciate your repeat business!
Hello friends! Just a quick post to let you know that we were infected last week with the horrible "Microsoft Security Essentials" virus/malware and it has put us behind a whole week in responding to emails and getting out estimates etc. If you tried to get in touch with us last week, we apologize for the delay in responding.
We are back up and running again (FINALLY! after over three days of working on the problem and restoring all our systems) and we apologize for any inconvenience. We will be in touch very soon if you have not yet heard back from us.
