Decorating my dining room table this time of year is so much fun! I change it up often with the seasons, and take every opportunity to see what unique place settings I can do next. If I can personalize it for dinner parties – even …
Specialty Printing
Work-and-Turn Your Way to Elegant Two-Sided A1 Note Cards
Learn about the work-and-turn technique of two-sided letterpress printing in this post by Jim DiRisio of The Norlu Press.
Chromatic Wood Type Greeting Card
Print in three colors from two inks using modern production chromatic wood types.
Ink-on-Stock Sample Cards for Your Shop
Printing Ink-on-Stock sample cards saves time and lets you see, or show your clients, how your favorite inks print on “house” or new paper stocks.
Scaled-Down Letterpress Bookmark
I wanted a bookmark to fit in an A1 envelope, but home-based print shops with small format presses may also find this technique helpful when you need a bookmark that will fit on a smaller size desktop press.
Letterpress Butterfly Print from Two-Color Wood Dies
The extreme thickness and weight (220#/595 GSM) of 220# Neenah Cotton Ecru Letterpress DTC Card Stock makes it an excellent medium for printing the Petrescu/Woodtype Customs letterpress dies (which are made from French polished, end-grain beech wood) with a lot of impression.
Letterpress Irish Blessing Greeting Card
This is my first project for the CutCardStock blog, and I am really excited to share how I used Curious Metallic 5×7 Aloe Folded Card Invitations. The cardstock took vegetable-based inks really well, and I created a greeting card for Saint Patrick’s Day, or any …