Printing beautiful and versatile beverage coasters on Neenah Cotton Letterpress Finish 220 lb cover stock
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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.
Birthday Card of Many Fonts and Many Colors
Lots of fonts and lots of stocks are the makings of these attractive birthday cards.
Chromatic Wood Type Greeting Card
Print in three colors from two inks using modern production chromatic wood types.
Fourth of July Greeting Card with Antique Flair
Just like the Chotchkie’s restaurant manager, this patriotic greeting card is all about the flair.
Printing a Patriotic Eagle on an Envelope Flap
Printing envelopes on a platen press can be challenging, but this post takes you through each step.
Mother’s Day Word Cloud Card
When you don’t have letterpress art for a design, create your own by composing a word cloud.
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 …
Nothing Is Impossible
Nothing is impossible with a little glitter either. Glitter is a great way to glam up a card and make it extra special for a gal friend. I really like the Silver and Gold POW Glitter Paper that I used on these two cards. Both are …
It’s in the Cards!
Several years ago, while attending the National Stationery Show in New York, I met a writer for Southern Living magazine and we exchanged business cards. Four years later I received a phone message from a friend congratulating me on the photo of my business card …
