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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!
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!
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the fifteenth 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):
Marife, Debbie Boswell and Reyna!
We’ll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Catching Up card.
Now for this week’s Father's Day Card edition:
Design: Cool Dad
Artist: Anna Hurley
Inspiration: Maybe some Jimmy Stewart, with a pinch of Atticus Finch and a dash of Dick Van Dyke.
Who to send it to: A rad dad, a cool daddy-o, or maybe even a sugar daddy if you’re feeling coy.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We thought of it saying “Happy Super Suave Dude’s Day,” but we decided we’d rather just stick with “Father.” And we thought of "Happy Dada Day" with a cartoon of Marcel Duchamp standing by a snow shovel, but we thought we'd narrow our audience too much.
Favorite detail: How could we choose just one?
Why letterpress: Any dad would be glad to know a lad or a lady who had such mad card selecting skills.
Don't forget to leave your comment below and check back next week to see if you've won!
A good friend of Hello!Lucky makes these fun and functional convertible play mats/toy tacks.
Here's a visual step by step:
Brilliant! With all the little boys around H!L these days, we've got our eye on these!
Such cool and colorful vintage fabrics! Check out more of their work on Etsy at repurposedplayground.
We saw a ton of inspiring work at this past National Stationery Show, including these cheeky postcards (above) from La Familia Green. We were also pretty smitten with these adorable pencil cases and tea towels from Pie Bird Press:
Our neighbors at Egg Press wowed us with their bold colors and quirky illustrations:
Suzy Jack had these fun pencil cups:
And first time exhibitor Fig. 2 wowed us with these neon cards:
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the fourteenth 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):
Jackie G, Noella, and Dear Evie!
We'll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Knitting Monkey card.
Now for this week’s edition:
Design: Catching Up
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: We just felt like gettin' our game hen on, puttin' on the capon, turnin' up the turducken and letterpressin' some poultry poetry on paper.
Who to send it to: One of your peeps who’s left you behind, some poor little pullet who’s been called a rotten egg, or a bird of a feather from your flock with whom you've been meaning to talk.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We had some chicken scratch plans about chicken little and the little red hen, but they never fully hatched.
Our favorite detail: We feel for the little chick who’s lagging.
Why letterpress? It’s so suave to keep in touch with such a tactile card!
Don't forget to post your comment and check back next week to see if you've won!
Whew! We just wrapped up another National Stationery Show - complete with old friends, new designs and lots and lots of inspiring new work. Our own booth featured a lovely felt sign made by our staff (above) and a couple projects from Handmade Weddings, like these yarn wrapped bottles...
...and fun paper link chains!
We were super excited about our new products, like this "Treat Yourself" card from Julia Rothman....
...and our reversible journals!
Some amazing people stopped by our booth to visit, but our favorite visitor was Eunice's son Jude - he really put the rest of us to shame with his amazing sales skills!
Yes, that's right! This just happens to be the thirteenth edition of Lucky Friday, coincidentally falling on Lucky Friday the 13th! Maybe we should have featured a Halloween Card? Spooky...
Each Friday we 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):
Ann, Stephie and Paige L!
We'll contact you early next week to arrange sending your Wiser card.
Now for this week’s edition, one of our letterpress thank you cards:
May 15th – 18th from 9-6
Jacob Javits Convention Center, New York City SEE YOU THERE!
It's that time of year again when we're packing our bags and heading east to the National Stationery Show where we'll be debuting our Spring Release! We'll be at booth #1536 if you're planning on attending, stop by and say hello.
And now here's a sneak peek of the latest and greatest including a new product we are super excited about!
Drum roll please....introducing our new reversible letterpress journals to bring out the word smith in you whether you've got a hare-brained scheme (doh!) or a big idea (yay!).
But wait there's more! More hilariously genius greeting card designs from Julia Rothman and Esther Aarts:
Julia's Rockin' Birthday conjures up childhood memories of Jem and the Holograms or Kids, Incorporated!
Whether to say bon voyage or congratulations on your engagement, this adorable card from Esther Aarts is sure to wish you well on your new adventure.
Stay Tuned for more sneak peeks!
Design Sponge just featured one of our all time fave designers, Julia Rothman, and her fab new fabrics!
Cloud9 is producing these rich, ornate and fun designs—all printed on organic cotton.
Be sure to check Design Sponge for more pics and for a link to more of Julia's work .
Did you know Hello!Lucky carries a line of Julia Rothman cards and gift-wrap as well as many gorgeous and whimsical wedding invitations?
Now onto the twelfth 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, Lisa and Mary!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Wallowing Pig card.
Now for this week’s edition, one of our letterpress birthday cards!
Design: Wiser
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: Owl tell you when you’re older.
Who to send it to: The whoo’s whoo on your birthday list—whoo’s on first? Someone wiser than thou, perhaps? Or someone with whoom you can share your wisdom.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We had a designer who sketched out a “HAPPY H-OWL-OWEEN from Owllen Ginsberg” card, with a caricature of Allen Ginsberg as a great horned owl, reading from H-OWL. Ummm… yeah. No. We think she was buzzed on Sharpie fumes at the time.
Our favorite detail: The owl in back looks just a little bit mischievous.
Why Letterpress? With such fine-feathered detail, our pressmen get to show off how talon-ted they are!
Be sure to leave your comment, and don't forget to check back next week to see if you've won!
You may have noticed we're a tad partial to ties. Spotted these splendid knots on Snippet and Ink, from General Knot. Love everything about this business.
They use vintage fabric finds to make very limited editions of these handsome, handmade-in-the-USA ties.
Totally dig the tags, too! They look letterpressed...
We want at least one or two for all the men in our lives, to help us cope with our sudden fit of tie envy.
Love!
We'd almost forgotten this one! Waaaay back in 2008, when we'd first moved into our current studios in SOMA, we did a little interview for Craft Video Podcast. There's some great stuff toward the middle/end where James shows how the polymer plates work in the Heidelberg presses while printing some wedding invitations. Then Eunice shows some of her inspiration and drawings for a couple of the fab letterpress greeting cards we've featured on Lucky Fridays! So stay tuned, or skip ahead to those parts if you're short on time.
The video is great for its completely ad-lib, unrehearsed, unplugged honesty. :D Hopefully we won't embarrass Shauna or Eunice too much.
Now onto the eleventh 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):
Ann, Kathy, and Jenny & Jimbob!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Mama Elephant card.
Now for this week's edition:
Design: Wallowing Pig
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: When it comes to making cute, punny cards about pigs, the sty’s the limit!
Who to send it to: Someone who’s happy as a hog in humus, and who’s out there bringin’ home the bacon!
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: Once we penned this little piggy, we felt the other ideas were a little too hammy, salty, or boorish.
Our favorite detail: Love the slightly sloppy pink watercolor effect on the pig, and the concentric swirls of swill in his swine sty.
Why Letterpress? Flat printing would be such a boar.
Don't forget to post your comment and tune in next week to see if you've won!
Now onto the tenth 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):
Stephanie, Ginger and Irene!
Heather will contact you early next week to arrange sending your Clothesline Monkey card.
Now onto our special Mother's Day card giveaway:
Design: Mama Elephant
Artist: Eunice Moyle
Inspiration: Our awe and “awww” of elephants is all the inspiration needed.
Who to send it to: Hmmm.. if you don’t know already, then Mum’s the word.
Our favorite detail: We love the mama elephant’s swirly knees and ears, and her pink toenails.
Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: We thought of hippos, with a message saying “You’re one hip mama!” but then we were reminded of Disney’s Fantasia, and the tutus… hrmm.
Why Letterpress? All mothers deserve the very best.
Don't forget to post your comment and check next Friday to see if you've won!
Okay, okay - so we're clearly not over the Royal Wedding (and its related details)...check out this amazing plate designed by HL longtime favorite, Rob Ryan. We're also pretty smitten with these tea towels from Thornback and Peel:
Finally, there's also a print, tote, mug, and keychains from The House that Lars Built. So cute!
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!
Our printers have been busy cranking out a delicious new crop of letterpress greeting cards including some adorable designs by Esther Aarts.
Max adjusts a plate to ready it for the press.
Stacks of printed cards await their turn for trimming and folding.
We're so excited to send these out - Christmas in July maybe?
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!
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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