Upcoming Holiday Shows

Holiday craft show season in upon us! I am starting next weekend (November 23-24) at Brooklyn Renegade at One Hanson Place in Brooklyn. I went to this venue a few years ago to visit the Brooklyn Flea, so I am so excited to be doing a show in such a gorgeous building (that's the main hall in the photo below).

Then after Thanksgiving, I am headed to Chicago for the first time EVER for the Renegade Craft Fair Chicago on December 7th and 8th.

And from there I am heading to DC for my fifth annual Downtown Holiday Market! I will be there every day from Wednesday, December 11th to Tuesday, December 17th! This was the market that launched my business in 2009 and it's my favorite show every year. I hope you can make it to one of these shows, I will have a ton of new designs and new products that aren't available online, so come by and take a look and stock up on prints before Christmas!

Block Printed Wallpapers from Galbraith and Paul

Galbraith and Paul, one of the only companies still doing large-scale block printing in the United States, just came out with a new line of wallpapers. Each piece is printed by hand in a variety of colors, and has a coordinating block printed fabric that goes with it (like in the photo below). Now I can get started on my all-block printed house. Would that be too much?

 

And, some photos of the printers in action around the Philadelphia studio:

All photos from Galbraith and Paul

Catching My Eye

Here are a few prints from around the web that have been catching my eye lately. I especially like the old printed style of the first three postage stamp designs...

From: here / here / here / here / here / here

Custom Wedding Invitations

I've spent a lot of time this year working on custom wedding invitations, but it mostly goes on behind the scenes (although I occasionally share pictures on Instagram). but today I wanted to share the finished product on a few invitations I have worked on recently.

First up is Blake and Saiba's Indian-inspired invitations. They chose letterpress, and I hand-drew the border and the elephants for this wedding suite. I love the color palette of coral, navy and turquoise that they used.

For Ashley and Steven's Ontario farm wedding, I block printed a monochromatic floral design on the invitation. Their wedding was in a barn so they wanted a rustic feel that incorporated the sage color they were using throughout.

Doug and Katie got married at a vineyard and used a palette of purple and lime green. I actually created this design for them and liked it so much I debuted it at the National Stationery Show. Luckily I got to be a guest at this amazing wedding!

Karlyn and Andrew had a Minnesota summer wedding and wanted to use a light purple floral theme throughout, so I created this block printed border for them and finished it off with a light purple liner.

So that is a look at what has been going on behind the scenes here! I loved working on all of these weddings and will have more to share as they roll off the press!

2014 Calendars are Here

It's back to school time again, and that means new office supplies (even if you aren't in school anymore). So with that in mind, the 2014 letterpress calendar is here! This border is done with a hand-carved linoleum block, and the text is added using a printing plate. It's done on a thick cream card stock, and is one of my favorite new products this year! You can find them in the shop right here.

New Lined Envelope Sets

The red stationery sets were one of last year's bestsellers, so for this year I wanted to introduce the cards in more colors and designs. I launched four new patterns at the National Stationery Show, perfect for important thank you notes or party invitations.

Each set contains six A7 flat cards and six kraft envelopes with matching liners. Both the cards and the liners are printed with a hand-carved linoleum block. You can find them in the shop right here.