hyc Creative on We Heart Letterpress

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updated hyc Creative website!

The new and improved hyc Creative website. Now with Skreened tees, Videos,
New Wedding Invitation Designs, and more.

Monogram Business Cards

This was a whirlwind and fun order. I received a call Thursday night from this gentlemen.
He wanted business cards to take with him out of town this week. We met Thursday night to
discuss design and they were printed tonight! I really like the way they turned out.

And I also loved that I tried a few different colors, sent him proofs and because
of today's awesome technology he could get right back to me with approval.

New Wedding Invitation Designs

Available on our Etsy page. 

These are professionally printed using a 4-color process on
100 lb recycled white matte stock with matching envelopes. Not Letterpress.

Some of the Designs can be changed slightly for Letterpress.

Jolly Father Christmas

This Jolly Ole Saint Nick was created under my mom's request. She love a jolly Santa on her Christmas  cards.  I printed plenty extra without the personalization for you!  

They are on Etsy sold separately or in sets of 8 for $20.
Also, have sets of last years jolly Santa design in sets of 8 for $20. 

Christmas Trees make my spirits bright

It felt a little strange printing these Christmas Cards before Halloween, but I'm glad I got a head start. This was my first attempt at some many overlapping colors on one card. I'm really loving the combination of colors and this amazing Savoy paper. My Holiday cards have come a long way from 2010. I also learned that I went a bit too fine with the lines on some of the ornaments. The ink spread and they just look like solid bulbs. I think they needed more white space. 

Overall, I'm super thrilled and I hope Owens Electric like them! I printed some without the Owens. They are available on my Etsy site as single cards or Sets of 8 for $20.

New Video! Printing Telegram Thank you cards

It's a little rough considering I just started playing around with Imovie on my new computer. I was inspired by Coury and I think I did a fairly decent job for my first try.

Next time, less mumbling and more smiling... I promise.

I love this whole set of invitations, place cards, and Thank You cards. It was a great time working with this couple. I wish them many years of happiness.

Blocks and Trains and Footprints, Oh my!

I just got a new plate made full of Christmas and baby cards. I started a few of the baby cards this weekend and finished tonight. A few more to come. I love this new paper. Savoy Cover. It leaves a lovely impression. I'm excited to take these to Honey and Hazel kids that now carries my cards.

After Coury finished my other video it inspired me to learn Imovie and do my own. I'm in the process of editing a How to now. (at least a how to Dawn's way) Coming soon.

hyc Creative's first Video!

Check it out! My lovely husband just finished the video we shot while making this wedding invitation earlier this year.  More videos to come!

October means prepping for Christmas here

Started working on a new Father Christmas and a Christmas Tree.

Graphic Baby Card, does it work?

I tried a new pattern paired with a metal baby block. Do you think this works? Coury and I have been discussing it a lot tonight. I only printed a few and moved on to printing other cards. I'd like to print this pattern blind for different cards. It might be too large for me to get a good impression on my little press though.

 I'd love to know what you all think?

I'm digging this one below.

Custom Cards for a little lady

This project has been in the works for a little while and I'm glad to say it's finished and ready to be packed up and delivered. A mother requested Letterpress cards for her new arrival to use as Stationary and Thank You notes. She saw this handmade paper I've used in the past on my site. I love using it, but it is a pain to tear down. I use water and paint brush to soften the line and then carefully tear the edges.  I also recreated the floral sprigs from a design that was given to me by a friend who's wedding invitations I printed.  It was well worth the tediousness. They've turned out lovely. 

Fresh Georgia Air

h is for hyc Creative!

We just took an amazing trip to Georgia for a friend's wedding. It was an inspirational, calming, and motivating weekend.  We took several hikes in the Georgia mountains, saw 2 beautiful waterfalls, and reunited with old friends. It was just the break I needed to get me focused for Fall and printing Holiday Cards!

Governors Island Jazz Age Lawn Party

I was so excited to be a part of the vendors on the island last weekend! I partnered with my friends NecksTuesday and we set out for a fun day in our Jazz Age outfits. It was an absolutely lovely morning. We were all a bit sleep deprived, but had the perfect people watching vantage point. I love the fact that some shoppers don't even notice the vendors behind the table. It's interesting what you can pick up.

It was an experience driving my car onto the ferry and driving around Governors Island too. It's just an eerie place. No one lives there so it's a lot like a ghost town. There are 2 pools, a church, and lots of houses that are no longer in use. They put up a Dance floor in one end of the Great Lawn and dance the day away. It was dreamy and surreal.

It felt like we were far far away from New York City.

Lots of beautiful people and even a Bill Cunningham sighting.

Lots of folks bought cards and I would love to do it again next year!

Laughing and playing and printing, oh my!

With several cards in mind, I dedicated the last two evenings to print. In an attempt to make more matted prints, I found 2 quotes that tickle my fancy. I hope others like "It's never to late to have a Happy childhood" ~ Berke Breathed and "Earth Laughs Flowers" by Ralph Waldo Everson. I dig them and I guess that's all that matters, but I do hope they sell.

Probably my favorite thing about printing is the happy accidents. I wasn't really sure how the prints were going to work out or even what colors I was going to use. I was thinking blue and pink for the Flower quote. When I had the rust color on the press, I decided to add a bit of mustard yellow to the ink plate and see what happened. I love this rusty orange result. If it hadn't been so late in the evening, I would have printed more rusty orange flowers for other cards. At some point I had to stop. I'm glad I used so many different colors of paper though. I was planning on printing just on the ivory, but grabbed a stack of colored 5x7 sheets. I didn't end up getting a very good print of the text on the watercolor ivory paper and I love the purple and light yellow pieces. Fun stuff. Can't wait to see how they come together.

I also used Savoy paper for cards for the first time. I was trying to get away from scoring and folding the cards on my own, but the quality is so nice and worth the extra work.

3 colors and lots of new cards and prints.

I made a trip to AI Friedman for mattes. Framed printed quotes coming soon!