thank you brisbane!

What an amazing weekend we had at the Brisbane Finders Keepers - Brisbane you sure are lovely, we love living here!

I took a whole heap of photos to share with you - I wanted to show you my favourite stalls Hideyo, Loose Leaf Paper and Old Yarns, as well as the fabulous Photo Booth set up by Feather and Stone Photography. However my beloved camera had other ideas as every, single, bloody photo was blurry. So unfortunately, until I can send you in the direction to view others photos, you will just have to imagine how amazing the weekend was. edit: thank you to our lovely friends you can view images here from Loose Leaf Papers and the official Finders Keepers photos by Mark Lobo here.

If you popped by, said hello, or bought a few goodies, thank you so much - your love and support is overwhelming, I honestly cannot thank you enough!!

xox

Photo by Mark Lobo.

busy busy

With only two more sleeps until Brisbane Finders Keepers we sure have been busy busy bees here in the studio. We have lots of new stationery and letterpress goodies and we are super excited to show for the very first time this weekend!

The markets are on from 10am to 5pm both Saturday and Sunday at the beautiful Old Museum. You can find out all the details here. If you attend please do make sure you pop by and say hello!

morgan & iain :: wedding stationery

It has been a very pretty wedding season here in the studio of late. Lots of gorgeous wedding suites featuring florals in soft and pretty tones, we love getting all pretty!

And of one these weddings was the super lovely Morgan and Iain who we worked through via Victoria at The Little White Wedding Co. With a beautiful wedding planned here in Brisbane of simple elegance, the brief for their invitation was for something classical with the introduction of a botanical floral illustration.

Using our gorgeous peony flower, their invitation featured a blind impressed background coupled with classic and elegant typography printed in a grey ink (oh so popular this year!). This pattern was repeated into the reply card and also made a stunning envelope liner - just gorgeous!

weekend plans

My goodness, it is Friday afternoon already, how can that be?

We have had a very busy week here in the studio, we are in full swing wedding production mode with lots of weddings being delivered for late winter and spring weddings. There have been some really beautiful ones, we must make sure we show you soon.

This weekend we will be busy printing, but of the non wedding kind. We have our new print we will be printing - have you entered our giveaway for the very first print off the press? We will also be extending our greeting card range and preparing lots of our lovely swing tags, hello notecards and other stationery bits and pieces for next weekends Finders Keepers.

Today we also took delivery of some new stationery which will hit our online store soon - it isn't letterpressed, but it sure is lovely and is going to make a lovely little edition to our store of stationery goodies.

The above card is one which we have had in the online shop for a little while but haven't had a chance to show you - it is a tiny tad cheeky, but perfect for the musical kind, and that tuba sure has got a beautiful impression into the cotton paper.

See you again next week friends!

xox

giveaway!

Its been quite a while since we have done a giveaway around here - so I think it is about time to do one! We have a new limited edition letterpress print planned to make its way onto the press sometime in the next week - and sweet blog readers we would love to give you the chance to win the very first print which is pulled off the press! We can't let you know just yet what it looks like... but we do promise that it will be very lovely indeed!

Nothing fancy required to enter, just leave a comment below and we will randomly choose a winner. Entries will close two weeks from today - Midnight Tuesday the 6th of July.

Good luck!!

sheryn & michael :: wedding stationery

Today we have images to share with you from a recent wedding stationery suite we completed for Sheryn and Michael. Sheryn works in the wedding industry at a gorgeous couture bridal studio in Melbourne, however when you live and breath weddings we know all too well how overwhelming it all can become to design and plan your own day!

Sheryn and Michael have chosen to have their reception at the stunning wine bar Comme in Melbourne, and with a classic, elegant and a touch of opulence theme we think they have made an amazing choice.

When it came to the stationery they were a little unsure as to which direction to head so we designed a series of invitations to suit their classic yet opulent theme. With a love of peonie flowers, Sheryn and Michel's favourite design was the above featuring a beautiful hand drawn floral illustration with classic, yet opulent typography.

Their stationery suite include a 2 colour invitation, reply card, gift card and envelopes to suit. The illustration received an amazing printed impression which really highlighted the valleys and mountains produced by our old letterpress beasts.

It was such a joy to work with Sheryn and Michael, we adored their design and when we received a gushing email to say that they had arrived, we were super pleased to hear that they were in love with them too!

words of advice

Hi Friends, it is crazy manic here at the moment with way too many things on the go at once, and far too many things going wrong - Letterpress sure can be one big frustrating adventure. But taking words of advice from the press are keeping calm and keeping our blower holes clean. It is after all, very important.

Also I have been meaning to tell you, we officially named our new press Helga. Such a beast of a lady, it seems such a fitting name. Strong, bulky and quite the brute of a girl. In her heyday I reckon she would have worn breeches and been the strong lady at the circus. What do you think?

Many thanks to The House of Dust and Fur for the naming suggestion!

brisbane finders keepers 2/3 july

Brisbane folks, Did you know that it is almost Finders Keepers time again? Are you super excited? We sure are! We will be there with all our letterpress goodies as well as some brand new stationery we are super excited to share with you guys first before it hits our online shop and retail stores, yay!!

You can check out the amazing line up of designers who will be attending here and find more info here. Oh we have shivers of excitement already!

Have a great weekend friends!
xox

p.s how cute is the above flyer - designed by the super fabulous Brisbane illustrator Mel Stringer, too cute!