We haven’t experienced the highest expression of liberty just yet, we know this because there are still fences around us.
We can sure take a break in our journey to celebrate what we have accomplished so far. But, let the celebration remind us that only action can move us closer to purest liberty
Happy 4th of July
These are the first drafts of our own note sets. I always say we don’t have time for this, so lately I’ve been doing some work around our own image. These ones are to send along with some paper swatches for clients or maybe just a note to say thanks for a referral, etc. Hope you like them!.
I’d Love to hear comments about them. Hopefully the whole letterhead and new business card design will come out of this first layout idea. Yes, I know I can’t believe that we don’t have a nice letterhead set either. We do have business cards though but only for the wedding and jewelry division. That was worth confessing, it’s out of my chest now 
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Ballerina Project Auction
We start looking so inspiring the moment we clearly visualize the border we are about to cross. Imagine!
All of a sudden I got inspiration from 2 places:
•The beautiful notes from Kindred that I posted about a while back and that I’m still using. And now Holly Becker has made more of them! Just when I was feeling like printing more!! Hurry and check out Kindred which has also free wallpapers made specially for you from many artists and cute notecards from Ez Pudewa. All these are so pretty and useful that I got inspired to make my own notes! Thanks Holly and Ez!!
•My own photography of flowers. I don’t know what it is with taking pictures of flowers and plants lately but they turn out so beautiful through the lens, I almost can’t believe I took the pictures, I enjoy it a lot these days, and I enjoy editing them and playing around to see what can I use them for.
So I decided I wanted to make my own notes and why not share them with all of you right??
Here they are, click below to download the files and enjoy!
Hello there! we’ve been messing with our Wordpress template (our back end page changed completely, so I’m barely getting use to it). Hang in there because as you may know already unpredictable things happen when you start touching and tweaking your settings. So my regular post is somehow behind but it’s a nice juicy one showcasing our latest letterpress Wedding Invitation.
I have to confess this order brought us a very important lesson. Never promise clients to match colors exactly
… It wasn’t our intention but some how we did. So this order was printed twice!!, yes once in a while you have to do it. We really believe that clients should always leave completely satisfied with their product, so we try to make any possible effort to actively represent that mission.
Anyhow, this card was mounted onto a red paper (back) and only the chocolate color was letterpressed. The labels on the envelope were done with off-white textured (light weight) paper. The RSVP postcard was letterpress in one ink color, but the beige color paper was printed onto a white paper
Like it?? I think they are very cute!
When you see yourself forced or with desire to cross a border, know it is natural to hope someone would give you a hand on the other side.
Photo courtesy of Iluisr
This is a recent Father’s Day gift order we did. This design is one of our already-made designs we offer for stationery. We just changed the name to make it personalized.
The order included cards with envelopes and matching letterheads.
This Dad is very lucky tor receive this present and the Mother is also a very lucky wife to have a Guy who appreciates personalized unique stationery!
This is Jessey one of our letterpress gurus. We have 3 letterpress vendors. We give must of our work to Jessey because his shop is about 10 blocks from us, so is very convenient. But also because he has 40 years of experience within the printing business and on top of that he has the best sense of humor ever (very important for business relationships). It always reminds me to not take life so serious.
Another great printer. This one foil prints
As you might know already, we get our biggest “high” designing, so printing is one of those things we rather outsource (specially letterpress printing). That doesn’t mean we don’t enjoy watching the printer move and shake. Jessey’s shop is like a candy shop to me. I have to say is not cute nor organized, actually is a complete guy shop kind of mess. But it’s fascinating to see how he maneuvers these machines with such an ease and grace combined with an eye for aesthetics (even though I have seen some awful car+girl posters in some corners of the shop, is contradicting, I know) .
Stopping the machine to add more ink
Mixing ink!
Close up to the printing plate. Just one for this card because it was only one ink color
There are many types of letterpress printers. For those of you who have never seen one, I thought this was a good way of seeing one in action. The one in the video is from the 1940’s, isn’t amazing that 60 years later someone is still making money out of it?
… I will tell you a little more about this specific job we were printing in my next post.
I have it. Don’t know about you but I do. It feels good when I go against it. As if I’m rebelling against my parents or something like that. The truth is I try to match a lot of stuff but I secretly admire so much those who don’t need to match anything in their lives, it’s just a very bold way of living. If you look around, even nature shows us that is better to harmonize things together than trying to perfectly match them.
I found this picture in one of the many blogs I read and completely forgot where it belongs now (If you know, let me know so I can credit the designer and blogger).
Anyhow, to move forward tours this way of life I have decided to look at pictures like this one as a constant reminder of how fresh, unique and humble can random things look together. I confess, I would’ve never thought all those elements can look good together. They complement each other. What an eye!
If you know of more pictures that can help me get rid of my syndrome please point them out for me 
I’m not where I’m from. I am a planet earth being. We have so much in common. We are relatives.
