Markets

Room Online, one of our online stockists is taking part in the Annual Sanlam Food, Wine, Design Fair held in JHB, which starts today and runs through to Sunday. So if you are in the area, pop in.

foodwinedesign.co.za


We are also taking part in the Treasury Christmas Market in Stellenbosch next Saturday, 1st December from 9am until 2pm. We will be selling the last of our Artist Almanacs, Bon Journal notebooks and various artworks, as well as some Christmas tags and cards. Pop in for some early Christmas shopping.

Wedding Invites

We recently printed these simple, yet elegant Wedding invites for Far and Wide Design

We managed to get a lovely, deep impression. Printed in Cool Grey ink on an Ivory Cardstock, 330gsm thick.

Julme Baby Shower Invites

We printed these adorable baby shower invites a while ago, but I am posting them now, as the suprise baby shower was this past Saturday.

The expectant mom-to-be's sister approached us to design something for a boy in Teal with a hot air balloon on it.

It is printed on our Cream, Rives Tradition paper, and has the image on the front cover, the wording on the inside page and then a little section for the guest to write a message to Julme to attach to the gift on the inside opposite cover.

Bon Journals

We have just got our lined notebooks back from the binders and are so excited!
We have got two different designs, printed in Delft Blue and Tiger Orange respectively. They are both lined with 100 pages each and have a lovely gold foil on the cover.
We will be launching these at Kamersvol Geskenke next week.

Final Artist Almanac preview

Next week we will start to show you how the printing came out

artist almanac preview 2

Printing has started on our Artist Almanac, so we though we'd give you a second sneek peek. The work coming in from our illustrators is really mind blowing,

Artist's Almanac Preview 1

We have commisioned the most awesome illustrator's for our new annual Artist's Almanac.

Here is a small preview of things to come

It will launch early in November, but watch this space for developments.

It's that time again....

We have madly been trying to get all of our stock ready for Kamersvol Geskenke, which is now only 1 month away!

We have designed a whole host of new products to showcase at the market, which we are very excited about....

This years event promises to be fantastic as ever, and is a day longer than usual.
check out: www.kamersvol.com

Below are some pics from our stand last year.

Perpetual Calendar Reinvented

We have decided to print our 'Perpetual Calendar or Collective Nouns in the Animal Kingdom' in different colours this year, in order to give it a fresh look.

Instead of the Cool Grey and Hot Pink We have gone for the Delft Blue and Tiger Orange.

Have a look...

Foiled Seating Tags

I did a post back in June on Leigh and Brad's wedding stationery that we printed for them.
We were later approached by the couple to do some foiling for their seating tags / wedding favours.

They bought jars of chocolate spread from Honest Chocolate, which they then covered with our foiled labels.

Turn around bright eyes....

We printed some more wooden type posters yesterday. 'Turn around bright eyes' is printed in brilliant red ink and there are 5 of them. Size is 295mm high x 415mm wide and will retail at R250.00 each.

We are hoping to print some new ones later today.

Hello Darkness....

We have gotten hold of some old wooden type, so have printed some gorgeous bright orange and teal type posters. There are only 3 of them and they are limited edition, so if you are interested in purchasing please email me at essie@essieletterpress.co.za

They are bigger than our usual artworks at 295mm high x 415mm wide and will retail at R250.00 each.

Mariken Wedding Invite

This is a fairly new invite and map that we have printed. The client's brief was something earthy, but with a quirky, fun feeling which is what she wants for her wedding celebration. She opted for an eggshell blue and grey ink, and we printed on a cream, texture paper to add to the relaxed feel.

The bride also wanted tags printed to act as name cards. She opted for one of our current tag ranges, Trifector. We printed it in a sage green.

Orange

We have a new ink colour - bright Orange, and we are very excited about it!

I printed a sample with some of our new plates yesterday. These are the designs for our new notebooks, which we will be launching later this year. We are hoping to do a bit of foiling on them as well.

 

The Singing Kettle

We have just finished printing these 2 colour business cards for the Singing Kettle Beach Lodge just outside of Plett. We printed them on a 330gsm cardstock.

Registration was quite tricky, but they came out great!

Bling

I have a new toy - a table top hot foiling machine. I have printed my first samples this week - our 'Lobster' card, sold in packs on 5 with rounded corners and brown envelopes. They are printed either on Ivory or Charcoal paper with either Gold or Silver foil. The plan is to expand the 'Under the Sea' range, as well as develop a few other ranges.

Party Tags

We have created a new range of tags, Party tags, which are smilliar to the popular Retro tags. They are available in mixed packets of 5, in a mixture of Delft Blue and Red. They consist of a bottle of bubbly, a Jester, a fish and a gramophone.

Mellow Yellow

We have another new notecard, which has been handdrawn, and is a two-tone yellow.

I got my inspiration from the gorgeous Cassia flower, which grows in our garden.

New notecards

We have just designed and printed a range of new one colour A6 notecards in a gorgeous, flowing font printed on a cream, textured paper with matching envelopes.

The cards at this stage comprise of: Thank you, With Sympathy, Congratulations and Happy Birthday.