Monday
Jul262010

New Wood Table Numbers

They're in! Here are our new table numbers. They're printed in cocoa ink on wood veneer and are double sided. We have them in sets of 1-10, 11-15 and 16-20. Need more? Just let me know. I'll be doing some short runs for other numbers based on requests. They are available for order right here...

  

Wednesday
Jul212010

New Invitation | Luella

This is a design we custom made for a client about a year ago, however we've had quite a few requests for it recently so we've gone ahead and added it to our signature collection. Samples are now available, and I love this recent order thermographed in gold and cocoa ink.

 

Wednesday
Jul212010

Font Love | Lady Rene

Lady René, a collaboration with designer and illustrator Laura Varsky, is the latest release from Sudtipos. I'm drooling over it. It's available through myfonts.com for the bargain price of $59. It might just be the best money I've spent recently. It's given me hours of fun and never disappoints which is more than I can say for half of the movies I've watched recently. Stay tuned for the new vintage book styled invitation we'll be launching shortly which utilizes some of its finer flourishes. (oh... and the new invite will be offered at a discounted price while we print up samples... contact me for details.)
  

Monday
Jul192010

Finding inspiration in the strangest of places

Like other people in design based industries, I tend to find inspiration in some weird situations, but this past weekend I found myself walking through a cemetery snapping photos and thinking of how amazing all of the typefacing was on the head stones. We were in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts. It's famous for Authors Ridge where you'll find the graves of Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Louisa May Alcott. I just found it so interesting that we're still using the same types, curves, borders and shapes today that people were utilizing 200 years ago. While you may not want to see you invites as a grave stone, just think of how "cute" the curved text at the top of so many invitations look... I guess Cyrus liked it too! Some things are truly timeless.

    

 

Monday
Jul192010

New Free Menu Template

 

This is our latest free, downloadable design. It's in a plum colored ink... perfect for late summer and autumn events. You'll need to download the free template here... (or click on the DIY templates heading at the top of the page.)

The PDF is sized to print 2 cards to a page using a standard 8.5" x 11" sheet of card stock. You then need to cut the cards out using a straight edge and ruler or any other paper cutting tool, and add your numbers by either hand writing them, or sending them back through the printer. The final size should be 5x7. That's it! For the cards shown above I used a piece of card stock purchase at Paper Source, and our laser printer that we print out orders sheets on. If you'd like to print them out on a 5x7 card individually rather than 2 up on a page, just contact me and I'll post another template. Enjoy and share photos of your finished versions! 

templates for non-professional, personal use only