Hello!Lucky
Letterpress greeting cards, thank you notes, DIY projects, free printables and craft inspiration.
We're just loving these hilarious Mysterio baby T's from Wry Baby. The packaging is genius (via Lovely Package). Each one comes in a muslin bag and predicts your child's future, which you don't find out until you open the package. Options include: Donut Tycoon, Romance Novelist, Game Show Host, and Hog Calling Champion.
And while you're at it, check out their Super Snapsuits - comes with a cape! Available here.
"Edgy" and "wedding congratulations card" are two phrases we almost never utter in the same breath, so we were delighted -- and not surprised -- that Carrie and Hal of Red Cap Cards managed to pull off this combo with new collaborations with artists Naoshi (bizarre strawberry couple/cake, above!)...
...and this wonderful fairy tale-inspired illustration by Jaime Zollars. Snap these up for your next engaged, quirky girlfriend!
And brides, thank your bridesmaids with this ladies' undergarment card by Julia Rothman, featuring bloomers, knickers, and bullet bras!
We spotted some great baby-related goods at the Stationery Show. First, this hilarious card from one of our favorite new lines -- Jaime Zollars for Red Cap Cards.
Publique Living debuted two new baby place mats - perfect for showers!
Pancake & Franks' little boy airplane card is super sweet.
Petra Boase made her US debut with an adorable booth lined with her wrapping papers. We spotted this cute kid's T featuring her signature cut-paper owl design.
This adorable card by Fugu Fugu Press (Shino and Ken!) would make a great congrats card for one of life's biggest accomplishments!
It was so exciting to see our new limited edition Woodland prints featured on Design*Sponge! We worked with some of our favorite artists, including Julia Rothman, Kate Sutton and Lab Partners, to create their own interpretations of the "Woodland" theme, and couldn't be more excited by the results! We even created one ourselves (above). Each print is 12" x 18" and is available for purchase here. Each one is printed in a limited quantity of 250, so when they are gone, they're gone!
As always, there was a lot to take in at the National Stationery Show! It was hard to pry ourselves away from our booth, but we did manage to nip out to see what's new with some of our favorite designers. One of our favorite new products is this genius LCD card by Yellow Owl Workshop.
Also love this lucky horseshoe calendar from Hammerpress.
New gift wrap from EIEIO.
New cards featuring stitched scrap materials from Pikku.
Pretty fabric-covered magnets and tacks from Girl of All Work (these would be great for hanging wedding seating cards!)
Simple, elegantly packaged boxes of quotes from Spilt Milk and Cookies -- a great favor idea for showers. The lovely owners happen to be the parents of Jon Retsky, co-founder of the Bay Area's leading special events lighting design firm, Got Light?, and a friend of H!L (small world!).
Fantastic graphic cards from Fugu Fugu Press.
Prints of the designs from Binth's amazing Joker playing card series, along with stunning new card designs.
One of our favorite new cards, by H!L designer Shauna Leytus - dancing dreidels! Yea!
Another great show, and always inspiring!
We're here at the New York Stationery Show and, as always, are jazzed and inspired by all the mad talent here! While lugging our camera to capture our highlights for the blog, we spotted these fab tributes to decades-gone-by photographic equipment - like this beautiful cast of a 1970's Polaroid camera by Yellow Owl Workshop. (Yes, it is for sale!)
And this darling 1960's Savoy camera, letterpress printed by Pie Bird Press.
Stay tuned for the "Action!" part of our coverage! (ha ha) We're just getting warmed up...
It's that time of the year again! We're heading to the National Stationery Show today, and super excited to catch up with all our favorite designers, friends, customers, bloggers, and editors again, and of course to be in one of our favorite cities!
Here are the details:
Booth 1434 National Stationery Show Jacob Javitz Center Sunday, May 17 - Wednesday, May 20
Please feel free to stop by!
Above: Adapted from our Visit New York Wedding Invitation and Save the Date by Lab Partners for Hello!Lucky
We just adore these new state bird & flower prints from fellow San Francisco letterpress studio, Dutch Door Press. (Above, California!)
Illinois!
New York! These are just so lovely! They are petite (just 5 x 7") but for a petite price ($15). These would make such a lovely mother's day gift! Buy them here.
Thanks to Wee Birdy, one of our favorite bloggers, who's been guest blogging over at Oola Moola, for sharing her amazing feat of crafting 35 cards in 1 day (and for only £20)!! Several of them were from our book, Handmade Hellos!
Check out the hilarious in-process shots of her Owl-y Friend card by Petra Boase...
...and the amazing results!!
Ms. Birdy also made the Paper Portrait card by La Familia Green.
Check it out! We love it, including the tiny nostrils!!
Birdy, you are a crafting queen! Welcome to the fold, grasshopper!
See more of Wee Birdy's feats of crafting endeavor here and here.
Our new Sock Monkey greeting cards are here, now available on our website! Nerd Monkey (above) has got to be our favorite (purchase the card to see the back, which features a Super Monkey lunch box and Monkey's report card!)
I say, old chap! Here is our monkey on safari, complete with pith helmet!
Our extremely, er, camp sailor sock monkey saluting you on your birthday!
And, finally, Monsieur Monkey, the mustachioed accordion player.
Check out our entire sock monkey greeting card collection here.
We just love all the vintage stationery supplies at London-based retailer Present & Correct. Among their impeccably curated collection are authetic vintage items like these old fashioned money bags -- perfect for gift certificates.
These post cards, made from vintage wall paper, are to die for!
They also carry a great collection of graphic design classics from the 1960s and 70s like The Red Balloon...
...The Apple and the Butterfly...
This beautifully designed rainbow pencil calendar is also fabulous! Check out all their goods here.
We had a great time today hosting a gaggle of hilarious second graders for a valentine making bonanza. Here we are at the beginning of the session - all seems calm, but it soon descended into crafting chaos!
We worked on the Fuzzy Octopus card from our book, Handmade Hellos. Above, some very serious crafting commences...
The kids were really creative - here is an octopus that ended up with 22 eyes at the final count...
We loved how creative the kids got! Here a little girl who decided to go with a fantastic giraffe of her own creation.
A hysterical puppy...
Hilarious mutant octopus...
Aaron does a little printing demonstration for a rapt audience. Thanks to the kids and teachers of Leonard Flynn Elementary School for a great time! Happy Valentine's Day!
Last week we hosted a Valentine's card making party at Chronicle Books' shop on Union Street in San Francisco, featuring a valentine's version of the Owl-y Friend card by Petra Boase, from our book Handmade Hellos.
We had a great turnout - so much fun!
By the end of the night, we had a crazy number of variations on the owl, and lots of happy crafters!
The owls (and some non-owls) were as varied as their makers...
We dubbed this one the "red hot" owl - love the color combo!
And what about these "disco wings"!?
Glitter was one of the more popular supplies...a comedian once called glitter the STD of crafting, and our party proved that out...my the end, it had spread everywhere! Hilarious!
Some crafters were inspired by the Wood You Be Mine? project from the book, by Two Trick Pony, and made their own vignettes (this one uses some cute cardinal wrapping paper from Snow & Graham).
Or how about this hilarious birthday card? The little alien is made from a patterned paper by EIEIO.
Owl with wings and eyes akimbo... Thanks to everyone who attended, and a special shout-out to Christina Loff for organizing. Happy Valentine's Day!!
Target has some great Valentine's items featured on their Red Hot Shop this month, including this hilarious mug!
The perfect way to drop a hint to your sweetie if you're angling for an engagement! (who, you?? never...!)
These ruffled knickers are adorable - perfect for some hanky panky!
Also loving this Little Pink address book from Peter Pauper Press...
The candy stripe pattern on the inside are just too cute!
And would'ya look at that? We're featured this month, too, with our Valentine's card kit, created exclusively for the Red Hot Shop!
Check out all their fabulous Valentine's finds right here!
We just wrapped up exhibiting at the NY Gift Fair - it was a little quiet given the economy (crickets..!...tumbleweeds!)...but that's okay because we still got lots of inspiration and made new friends. Plus it's always great to catch up with our fellow designers/small biz owners and the wonderful independent boutiques that carry our cards. There's Chun Yee (intrepid founder of our London office) and Sabrina in our booth...
We were completely smitten with Pikku's new stationery - it's a beautiful combination of pretty, mod design, gorgeous letterpress and hand stitching. That Valerie is so talented - everything she does incorporates pretty textile-inspired details...
Pikku was also showcasing these lovely silk-screen wood wall calendars. So cute!
Angie and Ted of Poketo were there with their super-nip line of t's, plates, wallets and other delectable collectibles.
Here are some of their new mugs, available righ here.
We also spotted these fab new Orla Kiely journals from Jasper + Black.
Love these kooky dinosaur wall decals from Wall Candy Arts.
Super cool coat hooks from Fluffy Co.
And fabulous hand-made guest books and albums from Rag & Bone Bindery (this one uses Amy Butler fabrics). Gorgeous!!
Every once in a while we come across a genius that product that gives us major design envy. Behold! The Official Tooth Fairy Kit!
We love the seriously gorgeous design and all the hilarious little details, including the following filing instructions (the idea of making small children go through ridiculous and unnecessary bureaucracy is so amusing!):
The kit contains one letterpress Certificate of Record for filing with your local Tooth Fairy and one reusable silkscreened cloth deposit bag for your first and all subsequent transactions. The official certificate keeps record of name, age, tooth lost, method of extraction and compensation information.
Available via the Office of the Tooth Fairy (ha!) for the bargain price of $16
via Oh Happy Day!
We are always so happy to see our stocklists in London featured in the press - especially when they display one of our cards - and so it was with much delight that we came across this article from the shopping pages of The London Paper - a newspaper that is given away to commuters to ease the tedium of those homeward tube, train and bus journeys. Alex Stacey, founder of online stationery boutique Papergrain, is fast proving what we knew all along - that there is a market for beautiful cards and paper and, moreover, that the art of letter writing and thoughtful correspondence is far from being a dying one. We simply adore her beautiful selection of greeting cards and thank-you notes and a visit to her online boutique should keep you well-stocked on stylish and suitable cards for every occasion. She even has a good selection of discounted Christmas cards at the moment for all of you obscenely efficient people looking to get ahead of the curve for 2009!
Our Snail thank you card! Hurrah!
We've been busy little bees over here at Hello!Lucky working on our new website...and it's finally almost ready!
Here's a little peak! Stay tuned for more...it's launching Monday!! (with a little luck!)
Huzzah! Our studio was featured in Daily Candy San Francisco today! We're offering a special deal for Daily Candy readers - type in DAILYCANDY at check out to get 25% off (or visit us in our studio/shop at 977 Howard Street between 5th and 6th). Happy holidays!
What a bizarre holiday season it's turning out to be! On the one hand, we're feeling festive and nostalgic, and looking forward to spending time with friends and family. This darling card by Lab Partners sums it up!
And on the other, there's the unrelenting news of layoffs and belt-tightening affecting some of our nearest and dearest. We're torn about which of these cards to send...maybe we'll just send both!
(Inside joke about this Sock Monkey card - the Y-front underpants are a reference to the British expression "Pants!" which means both underwear and, loosely, "Darn!"- when something is going poorly, it's "pants.")
So happy holidays, everyone, and hang in there! And to help out, check back here tomorrow for an exclusive deal on our cards and gifts via Daily Candy.
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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