Hello!Lucky
Letterpress greeting cards, thank you notes, DIY projects, free printables and craft inspiration.
Swooning over these particularly gorgeous edible sugar buttons from andiespecialtysweets.
They come in chocolate for those who like a little kick, and a little more of a rustic feel.
They make us recall of one our sweetest custom save the date designs— a darling variation on Big Day! Drop us a line if you're interested in this design for your wedding:
Now onto the third edition of our weekly feature: Lucky Fridays! Each Friday, we’ll feature one of our letterpress cards. Then we’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card. Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!
The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please):
Melissa, Anneleen and Amorette!
Heather will contact you shortly to arrange sending your Stinky Skunk Card!
This week’s feature:
Design: Support
Artist: Julia Rothman
Inspiration: We don’t mean to leave you hanging, but we’ll tell you when you’re older.
Send it to: A female confidant, a bosom friend, or a gentleman that you wish to befuddle udderly.
Our Favorite Detail: We like that we can’t quite tell if the lingerie style depicted is staying abreast of the trends, or if it’s a little behind the times.
Ideas we scrapped for this one: We were a little “strapped” for ideas for a men’s version of the card.
Why Letterpress? Gives you the street cred to make designer in-jokes about Pantone and PMS, type-drawers and point size. (Whuh?!)
Don't forget to post your comment and check next Friday to see if you’ve won!
We are thrilled to welcome the very talented Julia Kostreva to our fab design team. She designed this gorgeous invitation suite...
Don't you just love the split fountain printing (that super cool blend from limey green to orange)...
...and the hand drawn type? We do!
This was printed by the always fantastic Studio on Fire...
Wow! We realized what Julia Rothman's new wedding invitation design, Daydream, reminded us of. A potter friend of Hello!Lucky makes whimsical work that coordinates beautifully with this design!
See what we mean? Pretty swell, huh? Jana Evans is the creator of this fun and funky porcelain— all hand made! She wheel-throws and hand-builds and then etches all those fine lines. Beautiful and fascinating stuff! But the curves and lines just made us draw parallels (so to speak!) to Daydream.
Jana is doing an artist residency at the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. It's a mecca for clay and ceramic enthusiasts and pros. Check out the Bray website by clicking on the link above if you're interested in seeing more amazing work!
Had to share this fun pitcher, jar, and bowl set too. Can't get enough of that drippy green glaze! Gorgeous!
Love the work by Danish company, luckyboysunday, found on Bliss.
Dig these fine young gents and their plush accoutrements:
Inspiration for a new line of baby boy birth announcements? Perhaps... maybe... but we sure adore the décor.
Every serious circus needs a ring of fire, obviously - here's how to make your very own. Tiny tiger not included!
If you missed last week's exciting edition, we'd like to announce a new weekly feature: Lucky Fridays! Each Friday, we’ll feature one of our letterpress cards. Then we’ll choose THREE LUCKY WINNERS to get a free card. Post a comment by 12 p.m. PST the following Thursday, and we’ll announce the winners on the following Friday!
The three winners from last week are (drum roll, please):
Heather will contact you shortly to arrange sending your Esther Aarts Oompah Band Card!
This week's feature:
Design: Stinky Skunk
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: Pepé Le Pew, but of course, mon amour, with a whiff of swinging sixties baroque
Send it to: Who knows? The Shadow knows!
Our favorite detail: The concentric smoke rings of skunk funk, and the innocent expression on the striped perpetrator.
Ideas we scrapped for this one: We rejected a couple of Skunk drafts that were a little too ripe.
Why letterpress? A tactile letterpress card can make even the coldest heart a little scent-imental.
Remember to post your comment and check next Friday to see if you've won!
Easy to make and lots of visual impact and classic birthday fun - that's what we were going for when we whipped up our cookies & cupcakes for Jude's birthday...
Nothing says circus like animal cookies! These were super easy to make and so fun to decorate...We used the sugar cookie recipe from the classic Joy of Cooking - delicious, crispy and buttery! We made royal icing which is the simplest thing to make and frosted them with small paint brushes (more tips for decorating here). Animal cookie cutters found here and here and here.
The cupcakes were baked in the cutest red & white striped cups with chocolate frosting and rainbow sprinkles topped with ribbon flags for a festive circus-y look. We found the striped cupcake liners at Sweet Baking Supply and made the little flags out of grosgrain ribbon and wooden dowels (we found ours at Flax but you can find them at most art/craft supply stores) cut down to varied lengths (find the how-to in our new book, Handmade Weddings!)
Saturday was Jude's first birthday party, and what a fun little fête it was!
We served fresh popcorn in vintage style popcorn boxes, sugar cookies frosted with royal icing (so fun to paint!) and delicious cupcakes with chocolate frosting with little flags made from ribbon and satay sticks - classic birthday treats!
The cake was a yellow cake with buttercream frosting, with a cute little banner (it's been a hot trend this year, and I couldn't help myself - so perfect for the circus theme!) And how perfect were these napkins? I found them (as well as stripey straws, paper fringe and more) at a super adorable little shop called Shop Sweet Lulu!
We provided clown noses, for those who didn't happen to have any appropriate circus attire on hand...
...or who just happen to look ridiculously cute in one...
We made these charming birthday hats out of pom poms, ruffly paper trim, stickers and poster board - so fun!
One of Jude's birthday presents was this amazing Schylling baby piano that Sabrina picked up at the super marvelous shop Paxton Gate's Curiosities for Kids which was a big hit at the party - she brought over hers too so we could have dueling pianos...
Our friends Jillian and Toast of Because We Can, came in hilarious cowboy attire...(props to Jillian for staying up 'til the wee hours the night before decorating cookies!)
We thought y'all might be interested in seeing all the great ways we've riffed our Heartland/Apple Farm design. So many people have adapted it to their own farm setting— so we thought it would be nice to share! Above is our original Apple Farm design on the left and a super cute version that Melanie Case commissioned on the right. Love the apple and orange on the same branch, brilliant!
How sweet— a Michigan Cherry orchard and a ceremony in Sun Valley Idaho! Love the horseshoes and the cowboy chic.
Then Eunice did a great riff on the Sun Valley Idaho version for Shannon and Jason and their Texas ranch wedding. It's fun to see the two versions of the trees— we got it right on the bottom RSVP with the more deciduous looking variety. Check out the adorable Super 8 film of their wedding here.
Another great aspect about Heartland is that we can often substitute motifs from our other designs with great results! The motif from our Vintage Rose design was perfect for the garden wedding on the left, and our Mi Amor birds went wonderfully with the Mexican flags on the right!
Such a perfect design for a Napa wedding!
Let us know if you'd love any of these designs for your wedding by contacting info@hellolucky.com. Take a screen shot and send it along via e-mail, or give us a call to ask about the process of using one of these fabulous rustic wedding invitation designs.
This is a message we can all take to heart. xo
Love the cherry blossom petit fours, epecially! They were featured on Martha Stewart a bit ago, but we thought these pretty pink pastries needed a review.
Craftzine recently featured a great article about our new book, Handmade Weddings!
Click here, give it a gander, and download PDF instructions for how to make this charming cupcake stand! (It's a sweet little taste of what goodies you'll find in the book.) Enjoy!
Adore Lynette Andreasen's work! She incorporates embroidery into a lot of her metal sculpture and jewelry. Love the contrast of textures.
Embroidered flowers on a pewter plate. Gorgeous and utterly fascinating! Want it!
That would be quite a piece to wear out on Valentine's Day, no?
Love the shadow, the silhouette and the softness of the fibers.
This one reminds us a touch of Joel Dewberry's Ironwork and Architecture designs. Love, love!
We were just thinking about how much we love marzipan. So tasty, so gastronomically superior to fondant.
But marzipan is one of those things that can be done really well, or can just as easily fall off the wagon into the territory of hyper-kitsch. We would like to see some cake makers bring back the art of marzipan sculpture. See how charming marzipan can be?
How 'bout them apples!?
Aren't they just edible?! (Why yes, yes they are.)
Perhaps they could be made in the style of our new Heirloom Harvest, or Lavender Harvest wedding invitation suites?
Marzipan photos found via Room Candy.
Gifts.com featured a super fun Hello!Lucky DIY project on their Gift Rap blog! Along with fun instructional videos (complete with bluegrass music!), they include a printable PDF version of several of our Valentines cards so that you can print and personalize them to your heart's content!
Our Guess Who owl is one of six Valentine card designs to choose from.
Happy crafting!
We've been thinking pink around here— our super cute new Valentine's cards seem to be popping up everywhere and Valentine's Day is just around the corner!
Love, icing and typography! The best combo, and just our cup of tea!
But Linzer Hearts might just be our fave.
If you haven't seen Present and Correct's offerings, we recommend. It's a UK retro Girl Friday's dream office supply store.
Saw this on Design Milk. And we just had to re-post-it. (Ooh! Pardon!)
We all could use some desk refurbishment, and just imagine how lovely the office would look after a week of phone calls with these babies on hand!
A good friend of Hello!Lucky, Donna Wageman, just got a write-up in the SF Chronicle on her charming new shop, Pot + Pantry, in Noe Valley. Such a cute little store— we had to share!
So if you're in SF, wandering in the Castro/Noe/Mission area, check it out. Or make it a destination!
Or check out her website. Pot + Pantry also sells Sightglass coffee (a new Hello!Lucky favorite!) and is sure to have all manner of unique gifts for the vintage-minded among you.
Via SF Chronicle. Photos by Michael Macor.
At Hello!Lucky we specialize in Letterpress greeting cards, as well offer DIY step by steps & free printables. Led by sisters Eunice and Sabrina Moyle, our small team of expert designers and artisan letterpress printers specialize in creating neon & foil, holiday cards, birthday cards, & thank you cards, that are full of creativity and whimsy. We've been featured in Martha Stewart Weddings, Design Sponge, Style Me Pretty, Real Simple, and many other leading publications. Please feel feel to contact us via chat, phone or e-mail - we'd be happy to assist you!
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