Hello!Lucky
Letterpress greeting cards, thank you notes, DIY projects, free printables and craft inspiration.
Easter bonnets and spring have put us in the mood for millinery, and we are agog at the extravagantly sculpted, yet surprisingly affordable offerings from Kitty Andrews.
If you prefer something a little more understated, perhaps a pillbox:
The one on the left would be a delightfully demure, mod alternative to a veil, no?
And wouldn't this be just decadent to wear to a Derby party:
Enjoy more gorgeous designs this season on the Kitty Andrews Millinery site.
A teeny little thought for Earth Day: Be Green and Think Pink!
Hello!Lucky has a staffer who loves to garden, and this is her swiss chard emerging!
Happy Spring!
Now onto the ninth 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):
Allyson H, Budoh, and Wehaf!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Retro Easter card.
Design: Clothesline Monkey
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We’ve all had moments feeling strung out or high and dry, and there is nothing so encouraging as having a friend drop us a line.
Who to send it to: One of your gang who likes to hang and monkey around, but who might need a little help getting his feet back on the ground.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We got so hung up on the clothesline idea, we couldn’t quite pin down any other options.
Our favorite detail: We could write volumes about the pathos of being pinned up beside a pair of tighty-whities, but we’ll keep it brief.
Why Letterpress? It’s very chic to have laundry beautifully pressed.
Don’t forget to add your comment and check back next week to see if you’ve won!
Now onto the eighth 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):
Wolfie, Irit and Katie!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Ukulele Monkey card.
Onto our Easter greeting card edition:
Design: Retro Easter
Artist: Sarah Labieneic
Inspiration: Swingin’ sixties wallpaper, Easter egg hunts at Grandma Bianca’s wood-paneled suburban bungalow, croquet on shag Astroturf, milk-glass plates of divinely deviled eggs, crepe paper, wicker baskets, and spring!
Who to send it to: Any of your circle of Peeps— the hippest hippity-hops or the funkiest chickens you know.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We put all our eggs in one basket and decided to go with this most egg-cellent idea.
Our favorite details: the eggshell texture of the card stock and the robin’s egg blue hue.
Why Letterpress? We can print the prettiest pastels in letterpress!
Don’t forget to add your comment and check back next week to see if you’ve won!
We're SO excited to share this sneak peak of a custom design we recently created for the lovely Katie and Gary. The concept was based on one of Katie's favorite childhood books, Katy And The Big Snow by Virginia Lee Burton. We just went nuts over the super detailed illustrations and knew her invite had to be something special!
Eunice hand-drew the illustrations and scanned them in to Illustrator where she created vector artwork and "mapped out" the details of the wedding suite (pun intended - hint, hint!)
Each ink color requires a separate plate and press run and Katie was able to meet with the printers and check in as the job progressed.
As each new color is added, the illustrations start to take shape with more detail and depth.
Katie and Gary met while on vacation in San Francisco and traveled to so many exotic locales that they knew they wanted a map to be central to their wedding invitation. With so many adorable icons and illustrations is hard to choose a favorite but we have a feeling Katie's a bit partial to the Disney World flamingo - Gary proposed in the park!
And voila! The finished invitation suite - a tri-fold map invitation and rsvp set alongside its literary inspiration!
Congrats and best of luck Katie & Gary!
We're thrilled to be teaming up with The Collection Event Studio a gorgeous design studio, retail shop and meeting space in downtown Sonoma. Always up for a mini road trip, we jumped into the car, iced coffee in-hand and took off for wine country!
The girls at The Collection have curated a wonderful assortment of products and vendors and showcase them so beautifully in their space. Its like a one-stop shop for planning the most perfect rustic chic wedding!
We couldn't leave Sonoma without a quick peek into the Church Mouse Thrift Shop where we gazed with envy upon shelf after shelf of vintage china and stemware. Lillian found a perfect silver cocktail shaker!
How great is the pattern on these cups and saucers? Inspiration is everywhere!
Aren't these pretty? They're jewelry displays made of reclaimed letterpress lead type drawers.
As letterpress printers, we must mention we feel a bit of ambivalence about them. Type drawers are getting harder to find and more expensive, not just because they are beautifully crafted and painstakingly constructed, but they are increasingly popular Ebay fodder. Their demand has grown on Etsy, so prices for them are going up for the humble typesetter.
We wonder a little if it's a great idea to re-purpose objects that were used to hold hundreds of little pieces of lead— for decades. When they're cleaned and painted that makes them pretty safe, but word to the wise is to use precaution, particularly with children. Most printer's type is an alloy of lead, tin, antimony and other metals, making it much more stable than pure lead, but certain acidic environmental conditions conditions can cause corrosion and oxidation, and make the lead more hazardous. For more info, visit Briar Press's discussion of lead type handling safety. (Basically, the idea is just to wash your hands, and not put them in your mouth, hence the concern with kids.)
Pardon our little letterpress printing lecture. Just lookin' out for you guys!
Now onto the seventh 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):
Brittany Burton, Leah and Michael!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Sick Octo card.
Onto this week’s offering:
Design: Ukulele Monkey
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: From A Thousand Clowns, 1964, one of the best ukulele moments on film, pardon the poor quality:
Who to send it to: Your Hawaiian honey, your eccentric ukulele loving uncle, your cute cuatro-playing friend from Caracas, or anyone who’d love a plucky hand-puppet wearing plumeria.
Our favorite detail: Frankly, the frangipani flower is so poi-fectly Polynesian.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We considered a Christmas card that said Mele Kaliki-monkey, but we didn’t want to get that song stuck in everybody’s head (*wink*)
Why Letterpress? All primates go ape over letterpress + sock simians have never been so stylish!
Don't forget to add your comment and check back next week to see if you've won!
More to make us swoon today! Behold these beautiful embroidered book covers that Penguin Classics commissioned from Jillian Tamaki:
Makes us all want to curl up with cocoa and re-read these classics!
We are ooing and ahhing over this eye-feast, a new mag—Styled— on A Subtle Reverie. Gorgeous! Here's a pinkie-taste of the deliciousness:
Find fab inspiration on all styles of entertaining, from Easter egg embellishment to lemonade stands. Decadent photography and Delectable DIYs. Love it! Again, the link.
Enjoy!
Brides in Beantown will be so happy! We've added Lab Partners' beautiful Visit Boston wedding invitations and save the dates to our collection. Get a closer look here, and stay tuned for more to come!
Our SOMA neighbors, GAMA-GO, had a brilliant idea that we were honored to help produce!
Japand-aid! All proceeds for the sales of this limited edition letterpress print will go to the Red Cross in aid of disaster relief in Japan. Here is a link to the GAMA-GO website where you can find more info and order the poster when it goes live today at 1PM PST.
Here's GAMA GO's initial sketch
GAMA- GO implementing the inspiration in Illustrator
Max the master printer manning the Cylinder
And Eunice autographing the finished collaboration!
Hello!Lucky was thrilled to donate its expertise and elbow-grease, and GAMA-GO will donate the shipping. Each poster costs $50, so the entire sum will go to help the relief efforts! How great is that?!
Did you balance an egg?
Or did you see one of these?
Wishing you a splendid new season!
Now onto the fifth edition of our weekly feature: Lucky Fridays! Each Friday (or Saturday, just for this week) 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 S., Claire and Addie!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Lionheart card.
Onto this week's offering:
Design: Going Strong
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: The Beatles' “Carry that Weight,” feats of strength, the family circus.
Who to send it to: Your brawny beau; your leading lady; your favorite matrimonial marathon medalists.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: A pair of circus tightrope walkers, with the heading “Because you’re mine…” seemed a little tenuous. The sword swallower couple seemed inappropriate, and we all agreed that clowns are a no-no.
Our favorite details: The marcel curls of the Missus and the Monsieur’s manly ‘stache.
Why Letterpress? We bet that strongman could bench press our presses, so we printed the card to be especially impressive.
Don't forget to post your comment on the blog and check next Friday to see if you've won!
Regular Lucky Friday fans, please tune in tomorrow for "Lucky Saturday" & the results of last week's Lucky Friday drawing.
Love these bone china tea lights/votive holders by Karin Erikkson. Would be so dreamy for an evening's reception at a rustic chic wedding.
And we thought these vellum cut paper votives would be beautiful for an asian-themed wedding reception. Gives us DIY ideas, wethinks.
Spotted some cute double-decker bus mugs on a fun UK design store called Our Shop. Naturally it made us think of our Visit London save the dates and wedding invitations.
Fancy a cup, eh?
Be sure to have a peek at all our destination wedding invitations. More cities coming soon!
Now onto the fourth 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):
Ana P, Amy Wingate and Words and Eggs!
Heather will contact you shortly to arrange sending your Support card.
Onto this week's offering:
Design: Lionheart
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We didn’t have to scratch too hard to find a wealth of one-lioners about big cats.
Who to send it to: Your pride and joy. Your favorite Leo. Your mane man.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: The lion’s share of ideas were good, but this one gave us a hearty laugh.
Our favorite detail: ROWR can be such an elegant understatement.
Why Letterpress? The crush of letterpress preserves the beauty of all the details and fine lions.
Don’t forget to post your comment and check next Friday to see if you’ve won!
We're excited about the new Garden of Love stamp design by José Ortega. Love the whimsical illustrations! Coming out May 19th, it will be a beautiful embellishment for wedding invitations and wedding rsvp cards!
Good for just about anything one might wish to mail, but we think it'd be extra wonderful for garden wedding invitations and floral wedding invitations.
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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