Hello!Lucky
Letterpress greeting cards, thank you notes, DIY projects, free printables and craft inspiration.
We're having an enormous end of summer sale! It's time to clean house and make room for all of our wonderful new greeting cards and gifts. Lots of our favorite items are marked down up to 50% off! Now is the time to get those chalkboard word bubbles you've always wanted, or fill your home with handmade letterpress prints at half price. Click here to browse all sale items. Sale ends August 31st so shop now!
We have two very different parts of our business, our greeting card line and our custom design line. It's rare that the two cross paths but occasionally they do meet and we love seeing the results. We design and release new greeting cards twice a year, and one of the most exciting parts of our job here is coming up with themes and puns for our greeting card line. But the truth is, some of our most popular designs are already out there, and they just need to be revisited. Often times we'll look at what's done well in our wedding line and we'll use those designs as inspiration for new greeting cards. It's fun to see the variations and to be able to offer up some of our most beloved designs to people who aren't looking for wedding invites or birth announcements. We've paired up some of these design transformations below so you can check our the evolution for yourself!
Above is our Seagulls Greeting Card recently created after we felt the success of our Seagulls Wedding Invitation. The cool beachy theme fits well as a wedding thank you card, but also as a thank you for a gift or gesture. For those of us that live on the ocean, having a set of six at home is necessary!
It was easy to turn our most popular Nouveau Peonies Wedding Invitation into a greeting card. The Nouveau Peonies Greeting Card is a feminine and classy note perfect for every occasion.
We're proud of our city. And we're proud of our other most popular wedding invitation San Francisco Skyline. The new San Francisco Skyline Greeting Card is perfect for visitors of the city by the bay, for moving announcement cards, or just a friendly hello.
Everybody loves Big Day! There's something about the double sided Big Day rsvp card that gets people smiling. We knew the friendly illustration would lend itself well to a thank you card. Our Many Thanks Greeting Card has been around quite awhile and is definitely a favorite.
Did you know all of our Visit series save the dates are available in letterpress greeting cards? The Visit New York Greeting Card is one of the originals, and a best seller in our New York City stores. It was recently featured on Time Out New York in a roundup of NYC themed stationery and greeting cards! Woo hoo!
After our designers created the Inchworm Birth Announcement for Kelly's baby Elliot, it was an easy decision to turn the bright baby announcement into the Inchworms Thank You Card. Suitable for a boy or girl!
We'll be sure to cover more of our design evolutions in the future! If there are any wedding/baby designs you'd like to see as a letterpress greeting card, just let us know!
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Shabby Apple Giveaway! We had over 50 fabulous responses and it was a tough decision but our winner of the $50 gift certificate is...
Julienne!
Be sure to visit Shabby Apple online and like them on Facebook for more updates and insider deals! And Julienne you'll be receiving an email from us shortly! Thanks for playing everyone.
Thank you thank you!!! to UK based Perfect Wedding Magazine for nominating and selecting Hello!Lucky as the Best Wedding Stationery in 2012! This is a hugely exciting award because we admire all the brilliant stationers in our category. Our London office has been kicking butt with all their success and press, and we could not feel more proud of the hard working team involved with making Hello!Lucky London such a hit. You can view the winners of the Perfect Wedding Awards here, and subscribe to the magazine here!
Music was always around the house growing up and I've always loved to sing. It's a family past-time - our dad has spent his retirement learning how to play various bluegrass instruments. I even sang a blue grass-inspired version of Dream a Little Dream for the first dance at Eunice's wedding with my former roommate. When I was in college I formed a singing group with 4 other women (one who happened to be the same roommate). They became great friends and we've recently started getting together yearly for a weekend to sing. This past weekend we got together for a weekend in New Hope, PA to sing some old songs and learn some new ones. Our little house had a great front porch where we spent lots of time just hanging out. We even recorded one of our songs as a memento of the weekend!
We spent a little bit time exploring New Hope and stumbled upon a local auto show.
It's always hard to say goodbye to my dear friends but next year will bring more great memories!
Hope you all had a nice weekend!
Sometimes it only takes a glance at a few photos to fall in love with a place all over again. This stunning modern wedding has tradition and class written all over it, and with the help of the talented team at Dream a Little Dream events, it all came together perfectly. Jessica and Brandon shared their love in front of family and friends last May at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco. Complete with stoic columns and beautiful sculptures, their wedding day looks like it belongs in a book of art. Who wouldn't want to say their vows among such memorable history?
To keep in theme with their traditional black and white wedding, the couple chose to use our San Francisco Skyline menu cards and place cards with variable printed guest names.
As a fun keepsake, we printed a large scale guest book sign with the San Francisco Skyline for guests to leave notes and well wishes. We're now offering a free folded guest book sign with all of your favorite designs including the San Francisco Skyline. Check it out here!
A big congratulations to Jessica and Brandon! To see more spectacular photos of this event, head over to Dream a Little Dream!
Photography by Darcy Padilla
This week on the blog...
We share a patterned paper DIY on how to make drink flags.
Celebrated a lovely floral wedding.
Hosted a giveaway for some sweet clothes. (You can still enter!)
Picked out the perfect guest book.
Shared some fun news about one of our birth announcements.
Gave away a favorite Julia Rothman card. (You can still enter that too!)
Have a great weekend whatever you do!
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 77th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway. Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting 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 winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Linda, Julie Glassman and Lexy! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Gallant Birthday card.
Design: Whale of a Birthday Artist: Julia Rothman Inspiration: We were trying to brainstorm Moby Dick themed humor cards that were appropriate... Who to send it to: Seafarin' bretheren or sister'en who lived to tell the tale, a dolphin lovin' doll, or anyone named Herman, Mel, Moby or Willy. Ideas we scrapped in favor of this one: "Have a Kracken Good Time" was suggested for our UK store, but it must've gotten lost at sea, or lost in translation. Favorite detail: Love the swirly sea and pretzel-y, pretty clouds. Why letterpress? Letterpress backwards read "sserprettel" which makes us think of sea serpent, pretzel and pretty. There must be a message here we need to decode.
Don’t forget to post your comment and tune in next week, same time, different stationery, to see if you’ve won!
Hooray! Our Inchworm birth announcement is featured in the latest issue of Pregnancy and Newborn Magazine! With so many adorable announcements readily available, we're honored they chose our playful new card. The design was so popular we decided to transform it into a folded thank you note! It comes in single cards or packs of six so if you have a bunch of thank-you's to write, we've got you covered.
How exciting is it that Etsy now has a wedding registry?! It's such a dependable place for unique gifts and wedding accessories. Among all the treasures found on Etsy are these laser cut wood tree guest books. We're always intrigued by the many creative ways people display their guest books or notes these days. It is such an important keepsake and to preserve it will offer years of fabulous memories. This wooden 3D tree guest book by Totally Salinda doubles as a wedding memento and a piece of art. It is laser cut with 200 leaves for your guests to sign and leave notes and it comes with its own wood frame! Such a lovely idea for an outdoor woodsy wedding. The Totally Salinda Etsy site is full of other laser cut wedding gifts, too! You can sign up and register for this and many other unique gifts. See more info here!
It's not very often that we host giveaways on our blog, but when we do we know it's something good. Something so good in fact that we wish we could participate! Shabby Apple, a new found favorite women's apparel and accessories outfit, is offering one lucky Hello!Lucky reader a $50 gift certificate to their online shop! As you can see from their website, Shabby Apple has something for everyone, from vintage inspired skirts to form fitting gowns. Only one participant will receive the $50 gift certificate, but don't be too upset. Shabby Apple is offering a 10% discount on all product online. We chose a few of our favorites (shown above and below) but trust us, it was hard to choose! To enter to win $50 to Shabby Apple, comment below telling us what you would order if you won. The winner will be announced next Wednesday, August 15th. Be sure to head over to the Shabby Apple facebook page for info and updates!
And for 10% off your order at Shabby Apple, enter the code hellolucky10off at checkout! Thanks for participating!
Whilst the downside of our temperate climate here in London is that this summer has, to date, been a complete wash-out, the silver lining is that the flowers have been blooming like never before. This was so wonderfully apparent at the Cheshire wedding of Ellie and Jon in late June where cottage garden favourites like peonies, roses and delphiniums abounded and were so perfectly picked-up in our Nouveau Peonies design that they chose for all their stationery. We love the way that the lace of Ellie’s beautiful dress was echoed in the place cards and how the floral theme was continued to the cake iced simply in white rose motifs.
Even the weather stayed fair!
All of us at Hello Lucky would like to wish Ellie and Jon all the best and to thank Ellie’s Mother, Jan, for being so wonderfully organized with the stationery!
The next video in our DIY Paper Details series is our favorite reception accessory - DIY Drink Flags! There are three easy templates for making festive flags for your party drinks. Your guests will certainly see your details come together if you match your papers with your wedding invitations or table numbers. Watch the video or see below for full instructions!
DIY Drink Flags from Hello!Lucky on Vimeo.
Materials:
DIY Drink Flag Template, Printer, 1 sheet cardstock, 8.5 x 11” (US) or A4 (UK), Ruler, Bone folder, or a butter knife, Cutting mat, or a magazine, Craft knife, Pencil, Patterned paper, Glue stick, Skewer sticks
How To:
Step 1. Print out the template. Print this template on card stock. Make sure your printer is set to 100% (or, “no scaling”) to ensure that the template prints to scale. Step 2. Cut out the template. Using a ruler, craft knife, and cutting mat, cut out the drink flag template. Step 3. Trace the template. With a pencil, trace the drink flag templates onto each sheet of pattern paper. Step 4. Cut out each flag. Using a ruler, craft knife, and cutting mat, cut out the flags. Step 5. Fold each flag in half. Fold the flags in half and use a bone folder to smooth the crease, marking your center. Step 6. Glue in skewers. Apply glue to one side of the inside of your flags. Place the skewer stick in the center, leaving about ¼” space at the top. Fold and smooth to secure.
Fore more paper DIY projects visit our website!
Have you ordered wedding invitations in the past? Thinking of personalizing your invitations soon? Whether or not you're a customer of Hello!Lucky, we'd love to hear about your experience finding the perfect wedding invites. We're conducting a quick and easy survey to gain feedback about what you like or dislike about the process. This is all in hopes to better assist our brides and grooms, so let us know how your search was and tell us what we could do better to help ease the process. Follow this link to answer 10 short questions. This survey is now closed. Thanks to everyone who participated!
Thanks a bunch!
Hope you had a fun week! Here's what we were up to:
We got excited about patterned paper again.
Debuted a new wedding suite showing our love for London.
Showed off a beautiful barn wedding.
Shared the perfect summer DIY project made with strawberries.
Introduced the world to our youngest fan.
Got gallant with another card giveaway.
Don't miss the big opening party for the Bold Italic's pop-up shop at Voyager! Tonight from 6-9pm you can be the first to get your hands on the local merchandise by your favorite SF retailers including Rickshaw Bagworks, Salty Fox Jewelry, Yellow Owl Workshop, and yours truly, Hello!Lucky! Along with handmade gifts and great people, free beer is being served to trusty San Francisco visitors. Voyager is located at 365 Valencia Street. See you there!
Hello all you lucky folks out there! This is the 76th edition of our Lucky Friday Giveaway. Each Friday we feature one of our letterpress greeting 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 winners from last week are (drum roll, please): Chelsea, Debbie Cotton and Cat! We’ll contact you next week to arrange sending your Hog Wild card.
Don’t forget to post your comment and tune in next week, same time, different stationery, to see if you’ve won!
Happy first birthday Soren! Here we have a few images of our friend baby Soren enjoying our delicious 1st Birthday letterpress card designed by Esther Aarts while rocking our original Darling Fawn Onesie. Soren has been a fan of Hello!Lucky since birth and is known to be quite a ladies man. His Uncle Stewey keeps him up to date on all our new designs, and this card turned out to be a real treat!
Still feeling the excitement of the summer season? So are we! The farmers markets are bustling, coats and jackets stored away, and beaches are calling our names. While enjoying the sweet taste of some fresh summer strawberries (and constantly imagining new DIY ideas), we realized the organic shape of the berry's insides would make a fantastic stamp! After testing a few of our own, we knew this was something everyone can do, especially kids! In absolutely no time you and your family can have one-of-a-kind artwork hanging on the wall, all made with supplies you already have at home.
Materials:
3 to 4 strawberries (halved), watercolor paint, brush, watercolor paper, frame (optional)
How To:
Step 1. Dip your brush in a little water, then dab in some red or pink watercolor paint.
Step 2. Brush a little paint over the flat surface of your halved strawberry. Try not to add too much water in order to get a more vibrant stamp.
Step 3. Carefully press your berry onto your paper. Let sit for a few seconds before picking up.
Step 4. Repeat! Be sure to leave a 1/2" space on all sides of your paper, in case you want to frame your artwork.
Step 5. After the stamps are all dry, add some leaves to your berries with a small brush. You can even make some little seeds around the edges.
Step 6. Place in a matted frame and display!
For more fun craft ideas for kids and adults, visit the DIY section of our website here!
This sweet farm wedding comes from no other place than I Love Farm Weddings. The ceremony took place at the beautiful Farm Kitchen in Poulsbo, Washington among the roaring evergreens and colorful wildflowers. It's easy to see how much love this couple shares for each other and their families. With playful travel themed wedding decor and a big red barn to boot, this wedding is one for the books!
The couple customized our Heartland wedding invitation suite, which fitted their wedding venue perfectly. The red barns are almost identical!
Don't these gelato boats look scrumptious? Herban Feast catered the event and provided their own rustic farm presentation.
For more barn wedding goodness, visit I Love Farm Weddings here!
Photos by Abbey Hepner Photography
Event design by Alison Lum
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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