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My smarty pants friend Irene studies ice! She is an ice-ist – so you better not mess with her!! She is also super talented and creative – she drew the koi and water lily leaf image for her wedding invitations.
She wanted to keep the koi motif throughout the rest of her wedding stationery – putting it on the top of the reply card and blank A2 cards later to be used for thank yous.
The invites were printed on Strathmore 110 lb. cover stock in sage green and platinum grey ink.
I made these letterpressed Tiger cards for the Lunar New Year!
Printed on chipboard in red and charcoal grey.
I had some leftover A2 cards and printed these tigers in orange. Maybe I will make a set of zodiac animal cards….
My best friend, Jenny, recently gave birth to a bouncing baby boy, Maxwell Linus, in December. Before the big day of labor and agony, I threw her and her husband Nick a baby shower in Brookline, MA. A chance for me to make letterpressed invitations and thank you cards??!! (perhaps!)
These cards were printed on Strathmore 110 lb. cover in natural white.
As you can see, Jenny loves puns! As a matter of fact, hubby was the emcee at her wedding and everytime he got up to speak, he had a pun prepared. Jenny was in stitches, but everyone else was groaning!
It’s been great talking to Jenny about her new role as Max’s mama – someone to look up to! I am 33 weeks into my first pregnancy and so far so good! I can’t believe the end is in sight – it has all happened too fast!
When Nancy and Nori were starting to plan their wedding, I heavily hinted to them that I would love to make their invitations! At the time I was enrolled in the evening contemporary letterpress course with Gerald Lange at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. It was my second time taking this studio course with Gerald at Art Center (as a way to get printing time). I originally learned letterpress from him in an introductory class at Otis College of Art a year earlier.
The cards were printed on recycled chipboard. For the main graphic, Nancy wanted to feature the dried lunaria, or money plant, she was going to collect from her parents’ farm and use for the reception table centerpieces. The color for the text was a dark chocolate brown, and for the image a rust orange.
In addition to the invitations and thank you cards, Nancy wanted to pass out bookmarks commemorating their special day as wedding favors. These were inserted into books from their personal collection brought to the reception and had special meaning to them as a couple.
