The everlasting giveaway was just a prelude— there is an even more splendid prize to be won on Pingg!
Until May 26th you can enter to win 150 free digital wedding invitations and reply cards! See the Pingg blog for details.
Good luck to you all!
Lucky Friday #11!
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!
Royal Wedding Dress?
The New York Times reported this weekend that wedding dress designers across the world are trying to get a head start on knocking off Kate Middleton's wedding dress. What do you think she will wear? There's even an interactive poll here, if you want to guess!
Hello!Lucky's Everlasting Giveaway on Pingg!
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!
Hanbok Lynn
A hanbok, traditional Korean wedding outfit, gets modernized (and gorgeous!) in these gowns from Hanbok Lynn. So pretty!
Via Vim & Verve.
Kitty Andrews Millinery
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.
Happy Earth Day!
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!
Lucky Friday #10! Mother's Day Edition!
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!
Bowties and Neckties
All of a sudden, we're starting to see super fashionable bowties and neckties and, honestly, its about time! Why should girls have all the fun?! There are some great offerings out there from General Knot & Co (above) and Forage (below).
Loving these simple graphic ties from J. A. Christensen:
This Pierrepont Hicks bowtie is reversible!
Studio Snapshot: Mini Chocolate Animals
We indulged our sweet tooth a bit today with these too-cute-for-words tiny chocolate animals.
Who wouldn't love to find these guys peeking out of their Easter basket?
More Royal Wedding Souvenirs
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!
Real Wedding: Heidi & Todd
Last week, Green Wedding Shoes featured the beautiful southern wedding of Heidi and Todd. Gorgeous, dreamy photos by Our Labor of Love.
We were so pleased they chose Woodland Damask for their stationery— it suits the occasion to a tee!
Peruse Green Wedding Shoes for much more beautiful inspiration!
Lucky Friday Week #9
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!
A Midsummer Eve's Affair— Save the Date!
Here's a little teaser for an exciting upcoming crafting event:
Click on this link to the Paper Source website for more details, and to register for a workshop near you!
Studio Snapshot: Hot Off the Press!
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?
Kate Spade wedding!
Kate Spade just launched their first ever wedding line - let the swooning begin! Her line includes retro fabulous dresses for the bride, cute frocks for bridesmaids, and some pretty adorable numbers for the honeymoon! The shoes and accessories aren't too shabby either!
Truly Delicious Polar Bear!
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!
Lucky Friday Week #8 (Easter Card Edition!)
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!
Design Notebook: Katie's Big Day
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!
Commemorative plates
It may seem as though we are just a wee bit obsessed with The Royal Wedding, but when we found these plates designed by our most favorite, Jonathan Adler, we couldn't resist! They are part of a series of designer commemorative plates that will be auctioned off on April 29th to benefit Shelter, a British housing and homelessness charity.
