February 13, 2015 — Comments are off for this post.

HAPPY GALENTINE’S DAY

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Leslie Knope is my spirit animal, so it should come as no surprise to you that Galentine's Day is a bit more my style than tomorrow's Valentine's Day.

Not that there's anything wrong with the boys ( love you manfriend! ), but it's the ladies in my life who have seen me through it all. And if you are like me, your special ladies love nachos as much as you do, so it's only appropriate to letterpress print a Galentine's Day card in their honor. These flourescent pink beauties came hot off the press just this week, and if I can get my shits together, these flat cards will be in my not-yet-opened online shop soon.

In the meantime, let's be ladies who celebrate ladies and eat nachos ( and of course, waffles ).

Happy Galentine's Day to all you beautiful tropical fish out there!*

*This post is loaded with Parks and Rec jokes, so if you're confused, go to Hulu and watch it from the beginning because the show in its last season, and I'm going to cry tears when it's over.

Published by Holly Whittlef in Design, hand-lettering, letterpress

July 24, 2014 — Comments are off for this post.

WORK / STEPHANIE + BRIAN

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Ever since I took my first letterpress class nearly a year ago, I have wanted to letterpress a wedding invitation suite. Maybe it's the ( small amount of ) girly girl in me, but I'm borderline obsessed with all things wedding design. And I'm even more obsessed with wedding letterpress design. To me, there's nothing more beautiful than the tactile, rich texture of letterpress wedding invites arriving in the mailboxes of loved ones announcing the big day. *le swoon*

So...flash forward to this past February when I convinced my friend Steph to let me letterpress her wedding invites for a school project in my Advanced Letterpress class. Luckily, it only took a bottle of wine or two to get her drunk and agree ( it's why we're friends ).

My design was influenced by Steph's classic, effortless taste + neutral wedding color scheme. The two-color suite encompassed an invitation, postcard RSVP ( saved $$$ on envelopes! ), map of Madison for out-of-town guests + a mini information card of the day's events. I incorporated a vintage-inspired palette of champagne + charcoal as well as hand-lettered a custom script font, seen in the bride + groom's names, their monogram + on the map. For a finishing touch, we edge painted the sides charcoal gray to give an extra touch of sophistication.

The printing process took wayyyy longer than I thought, which can happen when you forget to include a digit in the phone number of the wedding hotel + have to reprint that piece. It also happens when you accidentally get your hair stuck in the printing press.

Needless to say, when I was done printing, I celebrated like this.

Then, I celebrated at Steph + Brian's wedding two weekends ago like this.

It's all for the love of letterpress, my friends.

*The suite was printed with a Vandercook SP15 press on Crane's Lettra, Flourescent White, 110C.

Published by alphablossom in Design, letterpress, school
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