Boxed Notecards

We have started making boxed notecards of all of our existing notecard designs and will be developing some new designs too.

The boxes consist of 10 x A6 one sided notecards printed on Natural Evolution, Ivory, 280gsm paper with matching size envelopes. They are bound by a ribbon (colour and width of ribbon changes depending on the design.)

If you live in Johannesburg you can pick these up at Abby and Ross.

We are back to work

Sorry for the lack of posts, but we have been sunning it up in beautiful Bali for the last few weeks. here are some snaps

Typography 1.0

For our first typography poster we decided to do a homage to the legend of Lionel Richie. Seen below with his gentleman tache and coy smile:

The only problem with designing this poster is that you cannot stop singing the song. As soon as you say "hello" so someone, you want to break out into song.

 

They came out just great. The font was custom made and the whole design was done in a very fine double line which works great with letterpress. These are A4 and perfect for adding some flair to your mantle piece.

A is for awesome

The midnight elves have been timmering away on a new artwork set that is good for the mental health of the whole family. We call it "the Alphabetter". Here are some samples:

 

The letters are all done with an etched victorian flair. We had a lot of fun with this

Love is in the air...

We have been very busy this week and last week getting ready for Valentine's day. We have come up with 4 new designs specially for this day, and are very excited, as we have also now printed two colour notecards for the first time.

My favourite is the corset and heart - I just love it!

Wedding on the farm

 My baby sister recently got married about 100m away from the Essie Letterpress shed. She was one of our first clients and it's great to see how the initial invite theme and exitement carried through to the wedding itself.

For their thank-you cards we recommended that they rather make some personalised stationary instead. It remains unique to the bridal couple, but it is something that they can use for the rest of their lives and still be reminded of their big day.

Because they move around alot, they decided not to put on their address, but it is definitely an option.

Big Sam heads the pack

We are very happy to have done our first birth announcement.

Sammy here is an old friend that we have known since September. At the hospital  the nurses ink print the baby's feet before they get to go home These prints are brilliant and have the most amazing texture and lines- perfect for letterpress!!

 It almost looks as if Sammy stepped onto the page himself!