My favorite Etsy shop this week is BeautifulHello. Her shop is full of beautiful handmade greeting cards using patterned and hand painted paper shapes.
• Featured in 2 Christmas treasuries – Wintergreen Wonders and Many Gifts for You
• Joined the POE (Photographers of Etsy) Street Team
• Black Friday Sale – All HOLIDAY cards are on SALE!
I found so many awesome photos when I started looking for this weeks theme – All The Colors! My favorites are below and you can see the rest in my gallery on Flickr. Enjoy and happy Friday!
The photos link through to the photographer’s Flickr page – so click through to see more of their work.
Past Flickr Fridays:
Po-Boy Fest • Fall Inspired • Letterpress Love • Hipstamatic • Fashion • Road Signs
Last day to enter the Ciera Design Giveaway on I Just Might Explode!
Head over to Kara’s site to learn a bit more about me, including my biggest guilty pleasure and to enter for the giveaway!
Inspired by the Designing with Letterpress Webinar that I watched yesterday, today’s Flickr Friday shows some great examples of letterpress work! The photos link through to the designer’s Flickr page – so please click through to see more of their work!
This webinar was educational and had wonderful examples from Judith Berliner (Full Circle Press) and Josh Chen (Chen Design Associates). Here are a few tips from what I learned today:
- Know you press before you start your design and determine if the design is fit for the equipment – not all designs are right for letterpress
- film is created from your design
- a photopolymer plate is made using a light sensitive process
- printing begins
Color and Ink:
- Work with solids and not screens of colors – 1 color at a time is important to remember
- Pantone books are printed offset so letterpress will look a bit heavier
- Designers should know how different papers influence color
- Minimum line weight should be .25 but preferably .50
Size and Runs:
- most printers have capabilities to run jobs from business card size to 21″ but size will depend on the press you have
- 250 minimum quantity for a run is suggested, but any quantity is possible
Paper:
- You can work with a family of papers for the same job
- Type of paper also determines the impression depth, 80 lbs is probably too thin – need thicker paper for deeper impressions
- Uncoated sheet: You can print on both smooth and textured paper (letterpress is almost always printed on an uncoated stock)
Coated paper: “It doesn’t really jive with the feel” as Josh says.
Special effects:
Example 1: A two color job with overprinting gives you more depth and more colors. Also, an additional color was added with a custom rubberstamp (stamped each month).
People say that print is dead. When you see these beautiful samples you know why they are wrong!
Tomorrows Flickr Friday will feature more Letterpress samples so stop by the blog to see those! If you have some letterpress samples I would love to see them, share your link below in the comments!
Images and content from PaperSpecs.
My etsy shop is open for business! The shop features my photography and will soon carry prints from my graphic design collection! I am working on some poster designs now. I also have a few holiday and gift items for sale since it is almost ‘that time of year’. I will be adding items regularly and I’m planning a giveaway through I Just Might Explode in a few weeks so visit Ciera Design on Etsy and stay tuned!
Paper art in image from Pugly Pixel.
Amelie G Magazine is a style magazine, based in New Orleans, that started out a year ago with monthly online issues. The focus is on emerging artists, designers and innovative minds of this city that we love. They feature everything creative, from the latest styles and fashion designs, to music, architecture and art; if it’s compelling, they will be there to write about it.
I have been working with them to get their first print issue produced. The launch party for the premiere print issue was on Saturday night at LePhare. It was a celebration of creativity and fashion in New Orleans and was great to see everyone enjoying the printed magazine!
Make sure to check out AmelieGMag.com for the monthly issues and click here for a list of spots to pick up the premier print issue.
A friend of mine, Rob Clemenz, is the mind behind Saints for Sinners. He created special edition medals to honor the New Orleans Saints! These one of a kind medals are imported from Italy and hand painted in New Orleans.
A few Saints style medals, including the Touchdown Jesus, are shown here. Read more about how Saints for Sinners got started and view the other Saint medals & stories on their website: saintsforsinners.com
Close-up photo by Zander White // ZanderWhite.net
Board photo by Michele Campisi
Since I was a kid, I have always loved finding these on the beach. I hadn’t seen one in a while until I was at the beach on Martha’s Vineyard a few weeks ago. I took some photos and drew it when I got home.
You can keep up with all of my sketchbook entries here on my blog.
