Art prints

How could I forget to post these pictures here? This week has been that crazy.

These, my friends, are the first letterpress art prints from Sweet Olive Press.

Biscuits and being busy

You might think, since I've been a bit quiet on the work-related-posts front recently, that I've been slacking. Au contraire!

I've been printing like crazy – often at midnight, 1am, 2am – but all the results are things I can't show you yet.

The most Top Secret thing is my first letterpress art print for Sweet Olive Press. It has been complicated in every way, and time-consuming, and exciting. Seriously, I'm finding it hard to refrain from posting progress pictures here.

When it's finished, you'll hear all about it.

In the meantime, a little creative accomplishment that does have a picture to go with it... my lovely friend Kate in Paris sent me an amazing recipe for chocolate chip gingernut biscuits (cookies, Americans!). They were so great I had to send most of them home with my guests so they wouldn't later call me, in a fetching manner, from the kitchen...

Sweet Olive Press - monogram stationery

New custom monogram letterpress notes, printed this month!

(For more information about custom letterpress design and printing, visit the Sweet Olive Press web site...)

Sweet Olive Press – Sneak Peek {petite peonies}

Brand-new and straight off the press ... these are the petite peony letterpress notes I've been printing these past couple of weeks. There are two different styles (I'll show you the other one soon) and I'm so delighted with the colour and the texture.

The peonies are among several new note sets ready to debut at the end of this week, when I'll bring the Sweet Olive Press online shop out of its "massive-custom-work-induced" vacation!

I'll be rolling out pictures of the new designs here and on the Sweet Olive Press letterpress blog (nothing like doubling up!) over the next few days – watch!

Letterpress Business Cards

Running out of business cards is actually kind of great! It gives me a chance to revisit the look of my Sweet Olive Press card and – in this case – redesign it altogether.

I started printing these using a blind impression for the flower pattern, but I quickly switched to printing the pattern with transparent white for an "almost blind" impression. The pattern just looked better and more uniform with a little ink on the press.


The text is printed in a hand-mixed dark charcoal ink that jumps right off the card without being too harsh (black would've been a little much, really).

The press is in fine form and all ready to start printing the many (many!) custom projects and new stationery designs I've got lined up for the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more pictures as we keep rolling!

Letterpress happiness

I've had a steady stream of packages arriving this week, full of letterpress stock and new magnesium and polymer plates.

Lots of excitement! Lots of playing with the press! A little bit of frustration here and there!

At the moment I'm taking every spare minute either to print or prepare for printing, so I've been too busy to take photos – but they'll come, I promise.

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Workingworkingworking

I've been ridiculously busy, and I have absolutely nothing to show for it.

Last week I designed custom letterpress stationery destined for New York and Washington D.C., letterpress business cards (not usually my first choice, but I felt inspired by this particular project), and I came up with a new wedding invitation design for Sweet Olive Press.

But since all the artwork has only just been sent away for plate-making, there are no photos.

So here's picture of my “other work”, rabbiting around in the gazebo. They haven't been designing anything at all.

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Elephants going international...

A picture from Paris – Amandine kindly sent me this photo of the Sweet Olive Press letterpress coasters at home in her fabulous new apartment.

I'd love to be back in Paris, so yes – I am a little jealous of them...

Sweet Olive Press | Sneak Peek {3}

Pssssst... want to see the letterpress invitation for the party in Australia? You can, here on my Sweet Olive Press letterpress blog.

I also found a little window of history on the press!