Despite some recent health issues, I am finally getting back to work slowly in fits and spurts. On Sunday I completed our first press run in over 5 months. It was a bit challenging since I am still not 100% and the studio has moved to a new location since I last printed anything, so it was frustrating trying to find studio supplies that weren't where I expected them to be. My press was also a bit squeaky since some of the oil had worked its way out of oil holes during the move, so I had to hunt down each squeak and re-oil and lubricate joints. Nevertheless the 250 piece print job was completed and I enjoyed getting back into the rhythm of printing and moving to the beat of my 1,200 lb press.
My recent downtime has allowed me to get the camera out and take a few photos of jobs past - including the above photos of letterpress invitations we designed and printed last year for a couple in Toronto. We worked closely with their wedding planner (who is based here in Vancouver) for most of the design phase and printing of the letterpress stationery, and then we worked with the planner and the couple again to design their "day-of" wedding stationery that was to be printed digitally (including menus, programs, favor tags, and place cards). The ink used was a dark eggplant purple on Pearl White Crane Lettra stock.
If you are interested in having us design and print your custom letterpress wedding invitations and wedding stationery, please be in touch. We look forward to working with you!
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!
