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It’s dandy

22Jul

Hand-drawn, letterpress animal cards with a twist by Dandy Lion Press are beautiful. I love the big, sketchy illustrations on colored paper:

So lovely how they pay attention to the whole card space — extending the design around to the back and using little elements that coordinate the card to the envelope.

{ via PaperCrave }

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Arts and Crafts style

24Jun

Love these bold, graphic designs in the arts&crafts style by Cindy Lindgren

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Touch and paper

07Apr

3 Girls and a Goat do a fantastic job with paper and textures. Those garlands are also quite dreamy. I just want to touch everything in the shop.

Tags: paper
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Paper and fabric

23Mar

Love how Elliven plays with textures — the paper and ruffly fabric, the lace with canvas — beautiful.

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Japanese stationery

15Mar

Winged Wheel Stationery from Japan. My dear friend, Reshma, told me about this company and I just had to post their beautiful work. They also have a paper of the month club. How cool is that?

*Love this bear* that is letterpress printed.

The business cards are letterpress printed on handmade washi paper and the results are gorgeous — too gorgeous for just a business card!

Tags: bears, paper
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Handmade ink from plants and berries? Yes please! I always wonder how my rubber-based ink fairs on the environment while doing letterpress. Not good I’m sure. I use such a tiny amount for each project though. But how about Britt Browne from the PaperMoonProject on her ink made with cranberries. This is how ink was originally made and I love the idea of going back to it.

Here’s her step-by-step process.

Here’s a list of different berries/plants you can use to make certain colors from red onions and beets to tea and turmeric.

Hm… I wonder if this would work for letterpress?

How about plantable letterpress paper from Porridge Papers?

Seems very challenging to letterpress with handmade paper because the paper won’t be perfectly even so your design/type won’t be perfectly even in my mind. But Porridge Press does a beautiful job!

Thick Neck Arts makes paper out of fruit/egg crates ( you know that soft brown layer in between fruit in grocery stores?) and here are her step-by-step instructions.

Tags: Ink, paper, sustainable
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Merry Christmas!

24Dec

I hope everyone has a wonderful, happy, safe, and delicious Christmas! I’m heading home to PA where homemade German cookies and sweet breads await me! Yum! Here are some fun (and funny) vintage cards to get you in the Christmas spirit:

(once made)