Letterpress Gift Certificates Now Available!

In a pickle over finding a gift for someone? Maybe you need a gift under $10 for your office's Secret Santa. Maybe you need an affordable stocking stuffer. Maybe your child's teacher deserves a unique holiday gift. Whatever your reason, give the letterpress lover in your life the gift of choice. Available now in our Etsy store in $10, $20 and $50 USD denominations.

Redeemable for goods (such as greeting cards, notecards, coasters, gift tags, and more) in our Etsy store or on our website, or the certificate can be used towards custom stationery orders.

We'll send you a numbered certificate in the mail (with redemption instructions), or we can send the certificate directly to your recipient with a note from you inside. Valid for one year.

Happy shopping!

Holiday 2008 Collection

Here is the start of our Holiday 2008 Collection - now available in our Etsy store. These cards will also soon be available for purchase from our website.

These cards are printed in two inks (grey and wine red) on 100% cotton (tree-free) Crane Lettra in Pearl and come with 100% recycled material kraft envelopes. We have a limited number of these cards available, so order early to avoid disappointment.

Happy letterpressing!

Letterpress Printing Plates

When we talk to clients about our printing process, the topic of printing plates often comes up. If you've never seen a printing plate before you might not have any idea what they would look like. Here's how it works...

The save-the-dates (above) that were recently printed for our wonderful clients (Alix and Todd) started out as a quick sketch. We then reproduce the sketch on the computer and the file is made ready for platemaking.

Magnesium plates are then made according to the design and are mounted onto a wood backing (notice how everything is backwards on the plate [wrong-reading], so that it prints the opposite way on paper [right-reading]).

Below are the actual plates that were used for the above save-the-dates.


The plates are placed in the press (locked up in the chase) where they get inked and are pressed into the paper.

And voilà, the final result:

Happy letterpressing!

p.s. For those who have emailed, our 2008 Holiday Stationery will be available in our Etsy store this week!

Don't be late!

Just a quick post to remind everyone that now is the best time to start thinking about placing orders for your personal or corporate holiday stationery – such as:

• custom greeting cards for your business or family
  
• custom stationery
• holiday coupons
• invitations for holiday parties and events
  
• holiday promotional materials
• holiday gift certificates
  
• personalized stationery for friends/clients as gifts (i.e. our monogram stationery with a new modern design option coming soon!)
• etc.

We can design and print custom greeting cards and stationery just for you or your business, or simply personalize an existing design.

This is the time of year when wedding orders for the Spring start to take over, so to avoid disappointment for custom holiday stationery, please contact the studio to discuss your project. We look forward to working with you!

Happy letterpressing!