Hello!Lucky
Letterpress greeting cards, thank you notes, DIY projects, free printables and craft inspiration.
We are huge fans of Shanna Murray and found this post on Creature Comforts about her new decal collection.
We think a customized decal would be fantastic as decoration for a wedding, such as "The Smiths" or " Eunice & Daniel"!
Or maybe a sweet note on the wall of a baby's nursery or playroom...
How darling!
We wanted to let y'all in on one of our best kept secrets! Many of our most darling birth announcements and kids' party designs are available on Pingg! If you don't already know about Pingg, it's a fab site that allows you to create adorable E-invites, for free!
Hello!Lucky has seventeen different designs to choose from, a couple that you won't find anywhere else. How sweet is that?
Click on the image of our Roller Coaster design to see it on Pingg!
Or, how about a Tea Party shower invite? Can we come too?
Pingg is super user friendly, fast, and it's easy to sign up through your Facebook account, or just through e-mail.
It'll be a great party! Wish we could come!
Cake and Cupboard made this absolutely edible fondant cake topper of our Delicious Polar Bear letterpress greeting card.
And here's the inspiration:
How cute is that?! We bet she could make some pretty great cakes to match our other greeting card designs... such potential!
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 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!
Could these pull along toys be any CUTER?!! The Marajah might be our favorite, although the Tuareg is a close second!
See more here.
A slightly tardy post on how make the little flags that topped Mr. Jude's Big Top Birthday Cake (thank you for your patience, dear readers, things have been a little busy here at H!L HQ!) We thought these little banners were the perfect topper for a circusy cake! That perfect stripey candle and equally genius napkins found at Shop Sweet Lulu...
Download the tutorial here (with printable flags!)
That we are not deeply dedicated to our clients! This is the result of a bag of confetti and brief moment of distraction while assembling wedding invitations - clearly he is a future artist, expressing his creativity in all it's glory!
We were very pleased to be invited the La Moustache Party de Mr. Hugo (who you may remember from his recent appearance as a French clown)...
His mom, Vanessa, is hilarious and quite the style maven, and she did not disappoint with the many cute and funny details!
Like these snappy little moustache cupcake toppers (the cupcakes were DELICIOUS - from That Takes the Cake)
and these hard candy lollipops...
She had all kinds of simple, yet ingenious, touches - Washi tape bands add cute graphic flair to plain glass bottles...
Love these little paper cups!
Of course, one must have a selection of moustaches on a stick! These fab paper 'staches available here and the wooden 'staches here...
...and we loved the hilarious bunting made from photos of famous mustaschioed gentlemen - ah, Tom Selleck...
And the random celebratory moustache imagery that popped up in unexpected places...love those Y-fronts!
Ah, how we love a well-designed par-tay! Bonne anniversaire, Mr. Hugo!
Every serious circus needs a ring of fire, obviously - here's how to make your very own. Tiny tiger not included!
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!)
Spotted these cookie favors and thought they would be perfect for a Dino Epoch themed birthday party!
Our birth announcements designs aren't just for new babies, they can easily be adapted into birthday party invitations with just some minor tweaking.
Contact us with questions!
The rawr-some cookies came from Whippedbakeshop on Etsy.
Prepare yourself for some intense cuteness... we thought we'd indulge ourselves a little for Valentine's Day. We have a nostalgic weakness for crocheted stuffed animals. But then, the felted ones are a double-whammy of adorability (pardon the new word.)
Oh heavens! So cute! We have to share our Beaver Love for Valentine's Day.
A chenile duckie! We can't decide which is our favorite. But how great are these for a baby shower, or for a new arrival?
MillieFern on Etsy made these— they are some of the best we've seen. And of course, I bet you might find or commission a sock monkey.
Perhaps not terribly shocking given our love for sock monkeys, but we are pretty enamored with this Sock Monkey hat.
Via Mint.
How incredible is this children's masquerade?
Now this is a party I'd love to go to! So inspiring!
Shot by Imke Klee and Antonios Mitsopoulos and styled by Estelle Gaubert, for Desastre Exquis Magazine Paris
Eunice's little boy, Jude, is turning 1! Check out these super cute invitations she designed for his circus themed party...
Stay tuned for photos of the party itself! There are rumors of clown noses and a ring of (felt) fire for the babies to crawl through - feats of daring, ahoy!
Chilly winter days have reignited our mini-obsession with Collègien slippers from France...
How can your feet not be (warm and) happy in these puppies?
Sock Monkey ornaments!! We can't imagine anything more perfect for the holidays!
Available at Crate and Barrel. Via BB-links.
Check out this cute Thanksgiving place setting idea from Fiskers (yes, the scissors!). They suggest using it for the kids table, but we think it would be just as cute for adults! Have a great Thanksgiving!!
Via Black Eiffel.
We grew up in the 70's and 80's, so Fisher Price holds a particular place in our collective hearts, but, seriously, how could you not love these classic toys? The aesthetic is so very, very cool...
These little portable radios!
And this music box TV!
Ah Jingle Bird...
And this camera? Seriously.
Fisher Price has brought back a few of their vintage toys, such as the classic Chatter Telephone (though it amuses us to think that the average child would be utterly mystified by this phone - rotary dial? Wha??) and the Record Player and let's not forget The Corn Popper Push Toy! We wish they would bring back more!
via Modern Kiddo with awesome photos by flickr users jpidgeon, john_kratz, monique(moki), doe-c-doe, amazing granda and julielion
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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