Ok, are you ready for this weeks Finders Keepers? Because it sure is a keeper. Cuppow is one of the best inventions I’ve seen in a long time. It’s a drinking lid for a mason jar! Simple, right? Yep, but also brilliant. There are so many great uses for mason jars these days. Anything from serving dessert–to your weekend craft …
Hand Written Map Invitation
Here’s some more of that hand written type look that I just love, spotted on Oh So Beautiful Paper. And does that not look amazing letterpressed? These wedding invitations by Ladyfingers Letterpress are so fun. They definitely aren’t afraid of mixing beautiful colors. Yesterday I spent most of the day designing my best friend’s wedding invitations. I alway tend to focus on …
Movable Type Truck
Photo by Derek Fagerstrom via Movable Type Have you heard of the Movable Type Truck? Kyle Durrie, a letterpress printer from Portland, Oregon, rebuilt a 1982 Chevy Step Van into a mobile letterpress studio. The name and idea is a genius. If you don’t know, movable type refers to the system of printing that uses moveable pieces of type such as letters, numbers, and punctuation to reproduce the elements …
Finders Keepers: Letterpress Cookie Cutters
Letterpress cookie cutters from Paper Source How cool are these cookie cutters? My friend’s mom showed them to me. I think they’re the best thing to come to cookies since chocolate chips.
The Making of a Tradition
I thought this would be a nice send off to your weekend. You can’t beat a video about letterpress (particularly Hammerpress), with this much style. You’ll be wishing you could get in there and get your hands dirty–I know I do. It’s a good watch…enjoy! Realtree | The Making of a Tradition from MAMMOTH on Vimeo.
MIA For a Day
Source: Ian Coyle What a week. I just realized that I never posted anything on our blog yesterday. I was so busy designing stuff for clients I didn’t even realize it. Sometime (most times) I start designing and the time just flies by. Once I get going there is really nothing to stop me. If Jake didn’t come home for lunch everyday …
Welcome to the Family, Mr. Vandercook!
As promised, here is some more information on our exciting Facebook announcement from Friday! We have been in the process of having a new letterpress refinished and shipped to us since early November. It has been slow and frustrating trying to get something that can print the size we want, while staying within our price range. Ever since we purchased …
Christmas Wishes 2011
We are so excited to be able to say that we printed our Christmas cards this year on our letterpress! It was the first time we printed with white ink, and the first time we printed on kraft paper. We couldn’t be more satisfied with the way they came out. The photo was taken by us in front of our …
100 Followers Giveaway!
We now officially have 100 followers! Thank you everyone for your support. We are so happy to have you on our site and we love reading all your sweet comments. We’ve had over 200 subscribers through our RSS feed for a while now but there is just something about the sidebar followers that makes it seem so official. Plus who doesn’t love an excuse for a giveaway? To celebrate …
A Pair of Pears Letterpress Business Cards
We finally have letterpress business cards of our own! We ordered the plates a while ago, but with our new Christmas Collections and client work, we’ve been slammed and haven’t had time to print them until now. What do you think?
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