i spent this past Saturday making letterpress valentines with Kelly from May Day Studios. Her workshop was so incredibly fun and informative. We spent the day mixing and matching metal and wood type with vintage cuts. She even baked cookies, made tomato soup, and had a sandwich bar for our lunch! Couldn’t have asked for more on a snowy winter day.
Kelly has a bunch of neat retro designs and old-timey wood type. Her variety made it really hard to settle on one design to start. I used an ampersand as the starting place for my valentine. After composing the design, I had to fill the open space around it with metal spacers. Once the design was set, it was time to print. I used the Vandercook press which seemed to produce a cleaner, deeper print than the Pilot, a smaller proofing press. My cards came out so nicely! Some pictures of the process follow.
oh the romance.
The Chandler press
Printing on the Vandercook
Finished valentine printed in a rust red. Love!
