It's taken us a really long time (10 months to be exact!) to post photos of our daughter's birth announcements - but here they are at long last.
Being the both the designer and client for a personal project is very difficult - I find when I'm designing for other people I come up with ideas easily and am always confident with the concepts I present. But when designing for myself I always second guess everything - Could this look better another way? Have I totally exhausted the possibilities and options for the layout? Would other colors look better? What if I print this and I hate it, or come up with a better idea later? What if...I drive myself nuts.
The announcements were printed on Crane Lettra 110 lb. cotton stock in Pearl White in three (yep, three!) colors. This means three separate passes through the press for each piece - the light pink, the dark pink, and the blind impression (circle pattern with no ink). The envelope had the butterfly printed on the front beside where each recipient's address was written.
In the end I am very happy with how things turned out and plan to find a frame that will fit the announcement and the photo of her from the hospital that I sent out with it.
I still can't believe it's been almost a year since she was born. This has truly been the fastest year of my life - when they say life speeds up when you have children they weren't kidding around!
Back by popular demand - "Merci" notecards in pink. Buy them here.
We are thrilled to announce that we will be participating in Vancouver's most exclusive wedding show - Crème de la Crème - on October 30th at the Four Seasons Hotel. We are so excited - this wedding show is unlike any other in Vancouver and offers a completely unique experience for the discerning bride with a taste for exquisite style. More details to follow...
Above is a photo of some custom letterpress business cards we printed for Scott Malin, a client we have printed limited edition artwork for in the past. We just love his work, and his designs are just right for letterpress printing. Lots of line work that is set far enough apart to both take a nice letterpress impression and let the white space look nice and pillowy (is that even a word?) in contrast. Scott also requests nice strong inks for his prints - and it's always fun for us to print, when we often spend so much time using pastels and more washed-out tones for wedding stationery and such.
Dear retailers: Sunlit Letterpress will be distributing a new wholesale catalog with updated pricing and products. If you would like to be send the e-catalog, which will include Holiday 2010 stationery items, please email us at info at sunlit-letterpress.com.Have a great weekend!
Above is a photo of custom letterpress business cards we designed and printed for local landscape designer Dana Magee. Dana and her husband do beautiful work, and when I first met Dana for her design consultation, I had the chance to look through her portfolio of landscape projects around the Greater Vancouver area - the photos were stunning!
I really enjoy meeting with other professionals in the creative field - even it it is a completely different industry from our own - we have similar issues and difficulties, as well as similar rewards from working with our hands. At the end of the day, we are all just trying to make beautiful things for people to enjoy.
Dana wanted a business card that would really stand out and appeal to her high-end clients. This card was printed with earthy tones on Crane's 110 lb. Pearl Lettra.
We also designed coordinated pieces for digital/offset and desktop printing including matching letterhead, envelopes, and templates for project blueprints and custom graph paper. Even though we are a letterpress studio, we also design pieces for non-letterpress printing and other media such as websites. If you'd like to know more about how we can create an identity package for your company, we'd love to hear from you.
We have a lot going on in the studio right now - orders to complete, holiday items to prepare, redoing our wholesale catalog and offerings, planning for holiday and wedding shows, promotional materials for the wedding industry, etc. Throw a near ten-month-old into the mix, and it's wild times in these parts. Our daughter is free-ranging (our term for crawling) and is getting ready for walking, so having her in the studio is a bit of a challenge. She LOVES to get into the paper samples and swatchbooks - and has taken to tasting some of them. Keeping her out of trouble in the studio was much easier before she was able to move about!
Oh, and it's probably a bit early to mention, but we will be participating in Got Craft? this Christmas season - December 5th at 2205 Commercial Drive. We haven't done a Christmas show for a while, so it should be fun. For more info, visit the show website. Oh, and if you want a swag bag this year, prepare yourself - I've been told that the wait in the morning for the May 2010 show swag bags started at 6 am!!!
