Hello!Lucky
Letterpress greeting cards, thank you notes, DIY projects, free printables and craft inspiration.
Have we mentioned how much we love Orla Kiely? We discovered these delectable earthenware jars in the kitchen section. Sadly, these only ship in the UK, but all the luckier for our British staff and clients. Perhaps we might come to some arrangement with our UK connections?
But there are charming offerings for everyone.
Just a little taste. Visit orlakiely.com for more.
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the twentieth edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress cards. 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):
Christa, Jean K and Lindsey!
We’ll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Belated Birthday card.
Now for this week’s edition:
Design: Rock On
Artist: Julia Rothman (or maybe we should call her Julia Rock-man from now on)
Inspiration: Catching a wave of New Wave nostalgia, jonesing for some Joan Jett, or blasting Blondie on the boombox.
Who to send it to: A Jem of a friend or a Misfit on your list.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Our singer-songwriter version featured a Garfunkel fro wig, a harmonica stand, a tambourine and a pair of Birkenstocks and it read “Happy Folkin’ Birthday.”
Favorite detail: Love that we amped up the palette with some hot pink ink.
Why letterpress? Why guitars, why Chucks, why leather, why letterpress? Dude, because it rocks!
Don't forget to post your comment, and tune in next week, same time, different stationery, to see if you've won!
At craft night, Eunice has been working on French flash cards for her son, Jude. They are pen & ink illustrations with a watercolor finish - absolutely fantastic for any aspiring bilingual babies!
Eunice is trying to raise Jude bilingual in French and English, so she's always trying to find fun ways to teach him new vocabulary (ok, so he doesn't speak yet, but!) as well as adding to her own French vocab. She has a love for making flash cards - the words really stick and it's a fun and quick excuse to doodle. It's also a great excuse to play around with painting/watercolor techniques - the perfect platform to practice on (being the raging multi-tasker that she is!)
For those of you lucky folks in the NYC area, check out this must-attend event! Julia Rothman will be in attendance, in addition to several other artists included in her new book— Drawn In: A Peek into the Inspiring Sketchbooks of 44 Fine Artists, Illustrators, Graphic Designers, and Cartoonists. They'll even have an assortment of original sketchbooks for guests to peruse.
Here's the Facebook Event Page, if you'd like to RSVP.
And the Google Books page if you'd like to take a peek inside, to see more of the diverse artists' offerings.
And a link to the (did we say gorgeous?) book on Powell's and Amazon.
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the nineteenth edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress cards. 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, Cozette and Addie!
We’ll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Under the Sea card.
Now for this week’s edition:
Design: Belated Birthday
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: Some things just take a little longer, no? But it's worth it!
Who to send it to: Many will admit to being a little sluggish when it comes to sending snail mail, so send it to a friend who you might have left behind on the snail trail.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: For a while we had bees on the brain. “To Bee or not to Bee-lated,” with a harried, flustered postal carrier bee was a clunker.
Favorite detail: The back of the card is cute in an ant-ique kind of way. (see below!)
Why letterpress? Pressmen are busy as bees setting type with coppers, brasses and slugs! (ooh, pardon for being SO letterpresoteric)
Don’t forget to post your comment and check back next week, same time, same stationery (; D), to see if you’ve won!
Hello!Lucky is celebrating Pride Week! A big hug and shout-out to all our LGBT friends, clients and colleagues!
If you haven't seen this amazing urban chic wedding on Style me Pretty, you simply must. We just love it and had to share!
The author of A Beautiful Mess shared her wedding— so naturally it's amazing! Photographs by Apple and Arrow. Follow the links on Style Me Pretty for more breathtaking details.
To all you cool dads out there, have a happy happy father's day from all of us at Hello!Lucky!
Any dad would love these brownie burgers and cookie fries that we found on Bakerella! Have a great weekend!
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the eighteenth edition of our Lucky Friday giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress cards. 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):
Aggie, Lisa and Andrew!
We’ll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Cheers! card.
Now for this week’s edition:
Design: Under the Sea
Artist: Julia Rothman
Inspiration: Maybe Julia “conch-ed” out and dreamt about a certain “Lawrence Whelk” doing a duet of “Under the Sea” with Ariel, in glass of champagne. “A one an’a two an’ a..!” Ehr, umm, that is, maybe Julia just likes mermaids.
Who to send it to: This card was sure made for a mermaid, but you could send a sand dollar a holler, or grant a fish a birthday wish.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Some of the puns were kinda washed up, like an encouragement card with a mermaid, reading “On a scale of one to ten”… ‘nuff said.
Favorite detail: Naturally the angelfish and seahorse would be the chivalrous types.
Why letterpress? If you send a card under the waves the ink might wash away, but with a letterpress card a mermaid could at least get an impression.
Don't forget to post your comment and check back next week, same time, same stationery (; D), to see if you've won!
We've always loved our Visit Series created with Lab Partners so we just about fainted when we saw these babies on press today. Watch out LA - we've got stunning 3-color letterpress Visit Los Angeles save the dates and wedding invites ready to make an impression (pun very much intended)!
This shot gets up close and personal showing an inked plate moments before it presses into the paper.
Two colors printed, and one more to go!
Each new color requires that the machine be cleaned, re-inked and fitted with a new plate. Here invites-in-progress wait patiently to be pressed into wedding perfection.
Can you guess which designs these will turn out to be? Okay we'll spill, its Visit Texas and Visit Chicago!
Adding the second color to Visit Chicago brings out details in the train and fountain.
We can't wait to see what new details will come out when the third color is added!
For any folks lucky enough to be in sunny L.A. right now, check out the latest edition of Los Angeles Magazine.
A spread about card shops in the Best of LA section features one of our Julia Rothman designs, Under the Sea, and one of our classic Hello!Lucky designs, Peeps!
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the seventeenth edition of our Lucky Friday giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress cards. 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):
Jessica Southwick, Dennis Flinsenberg and Michael! Harr harr!
We’ll contact you early next week to aaarange sending your Best Mate card.
Now for this week’s edition:
Design: Cheers!
Artist: Esther Aarts
Inspiration: It doesn’t take Einstein to find a good use for a stein. But it takes an Esther Aarts to put such fine steins on such fine stationery.
Who to send it to: Einstein, Lichtenstein, Bernstein— any old stein. Perhaps just a pal who loves pilsner or a fraulein with a fondness for fermentation. An Oktoberfest birthday would be the absolute best!
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Longnecks just didn’t have the same flair. And canned beers can’t clink cheers with the same festive finesse.
Favorite detail: Love the steins’ bendy legs and hopsy feet.
Why letterpress? Steins and Heidelbergs go together like sauerbraten and spaetzle.
Don't forget to leave your comment and check back next week to see if you've won!
Remember the sweet little sugar buttons we featured a while back? Andie's Specialty Sweets in Los Angeles has broadened their beautiful repertoire to include these gorgeous goodies:
Absolutely adore these acorns. And they're chocolate filled, with a cocoa bean in the center!
And this edible sugar skeleton key is fabulous! Reminds us of our Whimsy Save the Date.
Be sure to visit the Etsy Shop, here and find more sweet sculpted delights.
100 Layer Cake posted about artist and photographer Jen Huang who is now offering hand-painted watercolors of wedding bouquets. What a wonderful and creative way to preserve your beautiful wedding flowers!
A few of our favorite wedding invitations— Whimsy, Big Day and Lavender Harvest are featured on the Ruffled Blog. Beautiful photos! Check it out!
We're mighty proud of Donna for winning 7 x 7's award for her adorable housewares shop, Pot + Pantry in Noe Valley/Mission in SF! It was less than a year ago that she left us to start it all up, so we toast her honor.
And we had to share these hilarious cookies with you, perhaps as inspiration for Father's Day gifts, or just as a clever treat for the carnivores in your life:
Of course, the presentation is key. It was all part of a "Meat Market" show she did a week or so ago.
Check out the Pot + Pantry Blog for more fun.
It all made us think of our BBQ Parade Father's Day Card.
Happy hunting!
Pikku is debuting some dapper, darling new tees! Some of the Hello!Lucky boys got them as a surprise gift, and we had to share a preview.
Click on the images to visit the Pikku shop.
Have you seen our Pikku baby announcements? If you like these simple, sweet patterns, peruse our Pikku birth announcement designs. With a simple change of text they can be re-purposed as a birthday invitation, too!
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the sixteenth edition of our Lucky Friday giveaway! Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress cards. 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):
Seema, Cherie and Amy Wingate!
We’ll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Cool Dad card.
Now for this week’s edition:
Design: Best Mate
Aarrrtist: Esther Aarrrrts (trans: Esther Aarts)
Inspiration: Arrrr ye pullin’ moy peg-leg? Can’t ye arrrready see what arrr influences arrrrr?
Who to send it to: Ye ought to knoo who yer best mates arrrrr, oughtn’t ye?
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Arrr, matey. We ‘ad a desoign arr two that ‘ad to walk the plank. With the cruel visage of Cap’n Hook and ‘is croc, readin’: “I’m Hooked on You.” Smelled ‘alf worse than a limey kettle o’ fish on a dead man’s chest.
Favorite detail: Tharrrs naught quoite loike the soight of that foine ship sankin’ way out o’er yonder. An’ the billowin’ smooke.
Why Letterpress: You canna foind a noicer caaarrrrrd anywhere on dry land.
Don't faarrrget—leave your comment, and check back next week to see if you've won!
The DIY experts over at Made recently posted this tutorial on creating colorful streamers that we absolutely love!
Wouldn't this make great decor for a summer wedding?
Perhaps a great compliment to our Mi Amour design with Mexican paper flags?
Sewing paper ... how perfect!
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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