Preparing for Baby

Full nesting mode has taken off now that I'm 7 and a half months pregnant. I've been prepping the nursery area with wonderful gifts and hand me downs and have moved on to printing. My Aunt is hosting a shower in Ohio and my friends are hosting one here, but I asked if I could still do the invitations. Today I printed the Shower invitations, Thank you cards, and favor tags.  
Almost ready for baby!!!

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.

Baby Announcements are for Sale!

Up on Etsy for purchase now! Thank you to my dear friends that let me use these adorable photos of their kids :)

Baby, Baby

It's been a productive and relaxing weekend so far. The weekend has been full of baby talk. Friday, Coury found this video on YouTube and we can't stop watching it. It's called Baby trashes bar in Las Palmas. I'm super entertained that this little cherub looks a bit tipsy... as toddlers often do. I am also anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new nephew. My sister was due Saturday and still no baby. She is more than ready for the little guy to join us as am I! I started setting up the baby announcements last weekend and needed to get them done before I can print the school themed wedding invitations that need to go on the press.

I took a lazy route in paper cutting this weekend that I will not repeat again. Instead of hauling the paper to work to be cut down at my regular Kinkos, I opted instead to drive to the Staples in our neighborhood on Saturday. It still cost $2 a cut and I didn't realize until I got home how crappy of a job they did. I'll discuss the wedding invitations in a later post. The paper for the baby announcements were all crazy. The girl told me their blade was dull, but she added extra paper to insure a good cut. When I stacked the bunch together, I noticed how ridiculously skewed they are. They all had at least one 90 degree edge so I used that edge to print and will have to go back and trim each print later on. I'm kicking myself right now for trying a new place, but it is fixable.

The announcements took a long time to get lined up and printing correctly. Once I got rolling, I didn't want to stop. I decided to wash the blue from the press, break for a dinner out with Coury and return to print the second batch in pink. I plan on packaging them in sets of 10.
The frame holds a 2" x 3" photo.


Now I hope one of my friends will say yes to using pictures of their little dudes and dudettes to use as an example :)

The book Has Arrived!

I was so excited to receive my Reinventing Letterpress book yesterday! I'm working on another run of my little zoo animal creations as Birthday cards for all the little dudes turning 1 this year!
Page 59, reads Dawn Hylon Lucas (hyC creative) New York, NY USA
The animals on the cards shown here were originally drawn in Illustrator and then made into photopolymer plates by Boxcar Press. Metal type was used for the text, and the cards were printed using an Excelsior press with water-soluble inks.
page 13, Letterpress in Practice. Bottom Left: photopolymer plates from Dawn Hylon Lucas