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Geek-awesome Valentine’s!

Adrienne — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:42:56 +0000

For the Jedi or Treekie love of your life, don’t miss getting one of these this Valentine’s Day! Letterpress printed on Arturo’s blush, mint and blue papers. Sized as an A2 card, blank interior and matching envelope.

Love, Santa

Adrienne — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:34:09 +0000

If you haven’t seen it this year, we have re-designed the Love, Santa letterpress tags for all of Santa’s helpers out there. There is about 10-12 more shopping days for domestic orders if you want your letterpress goods by Christmas Eve. International orders better get hopping on your last minute US buying ASAP, we can’t guarantee anything shipped out beyond the 10th.

Letterpress printed on 110# papper and paired with die-cut gift pouches in either antique gold or light shimmer champagne. Sized at 2.25 x 3.5″ and will fit a perfect amount of cash, gift card or special note from Santa to adorn your gifts this season.

Are you ready for a GIVEAWAY?!

Adrienne — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:05:18 +0000

It has been such a GREAT week with the shop launch and #letterpressTuesday promotion that I just can’t wrap up the week without another special something for you awesome friends. While we will continue to have the bread and butter of Dingbat Press be mostly letterpress goods, we are dipping into the offset arena for our budget conscious customers (or those on a super tight deadline) and because you have requested it. Throughout 2012 we’ll be unrolling offset baby announcements, more holiday greeting cards and hopefully (fingers crossed) a finished – NEW – collection of offset wedding invitations. These designs will utilize the advantages of offset and 4-color process and hopefully be a place where visions that aren’t suitable for letterpress can be fulfilled with a flat printed option.

SO, on with the giveaway! Win a set of 100 offset holiday cards – tell me which design is the set you’d like to win in the comments, and for an extra entry you can tweet or post it to facebook (come back here and let me know you’ve done so). Tweets must include hashtag #loveDP to qualify, Facebook posts must link back here with a url in the comments section.

Open until Sunday Dec. 4, 2011 – We’ll ship these out to you next week with your info input along with a photo that you send us!

SALE on Letterpress Tuesday!

Adrienne — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:55:15 +0000

If you missed it on twitter this last weekend, we launched a re-design to our online shop! The BEST part is that we have new functionality where you can order custom products online – calling cards, wedding suites and letterpress ready-made goods!

I’m also excited to announce that we are participating in a new post-thanksgiving promotion with a slew of other letterpress printers – it is not Cyber Mnday, but instead Letterpress Tuesday. ENJOY 25% OFF EVERYTHING IN THE SHOP (including custom goods) for 24 hours only, tomorrow TUESDAY 11/29/11. When checking out use code DINGBAT25. Happy Thanksgiving!

Cold hard cash!

Adrienne — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:54:22 +0000

These are new in the shop, and are great for cash or gift card gifts.

Sold as singles as well as an assorted set of 6 (one of each pattern) for those hard to buy for friends or family members.

They are fun to get cheeky with too!

By the way, did you know that photoshop CS5 won’t let you open an image with more than 50% of a United States dollar on it for counterfeit reasons?

It recognized my hammered out $20 bucks!

Coast on into winter!

Adrienne — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:10:52 +0000

As you may know we live at a high elevation, which calls for not much of a spring or fall to my utter dismay. The only thing I have to look forward in conjunction with the impending snowfall is the warm cocoa (or steamed milk with a shot of hazelnut) and homemade marshmallows.

I’m excited to introduce some new offerings as well to go along with your beverage of choice while the weather gets cooler – COASTERS!

There are five different patterns based off our holiday cards from last year: Peace, Love, O Come let us adore him (above), Sleep in heavenly peace, and a new Hanukkah letterpress coaster.

All coasters are letterpress printed on 110# cotton paper with 2 waterfast inks per coaster. Packed as a set of 10 in a beautiful 4″ tin with a clear windowed lid.

To see the rest of the patterns head on over and grab a set for your coffee table for the holidays. Reusable, they’ll last you through this holiday season and into next!

PREVIEW WEEK: Day 5 – Easter anyone?

Adrienne — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:01:12 +0000

Go ahead and roll your eyes seeing that we haven’t even hit St. Payy’s day yet. But these little guys are plated and will be for sale in the shop for spring showers, tagging baby gifts, and decorating that beautiful Easter table! Which colorway should I print them in?

Weeks 3 & 4, 2011

Adrienne — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 21:10:57 +0000

It’s that time again to check in with my resolutions for 2011 and check-list. First off, I still haven’t bought anything for myself yea! Although iPhone 4 (yeah the one with the cracked screen 3 weeks after buying) has met an even more depressing demise- it dropped again, this time bumper cover and all, about 18″ and the rest of the screen shattered. I can’t really read anything anymore, but the touch functionality mostly works. It’s been taped up with packing tape. June couldn’t come fast enough for iPhone 5. Sheesh!

Wedding invites were out the door for my brother-in-law – 650 of them, another sheesh! That made for an insane weekend!

Things accomplished for NSS – The Book was previewed. There was a price cut on the Lettra 600 GSM – but not enough to temp us. So we’ve officially switched house papers to the fabulous Legion Eco-rag which not only prints better, but is less expensive. PRICE CUT on the 600 GSM stuff – wohoo for everyone involved!

Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards are officially done, printed an photographed.

Wrapping up the 2012 calender for NSS, and a new line of mini-enclosures that are going to rock it!

Submitted entries for the Louies! Judging happens tomorrow and the 3rd – eek!

2010 Taxes are DONE! 1099′s are going out today!

And unveiling one of our new wedding designs for Valentine’s : Psyche & Eros - coming to a weding book near you – May 2011

Valentine’s w/ Grace and Mumford & Sons

Adrienne — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:26:36 +0000

I’m a total sucker for some wailing banjo music, and even more so when they lyrics are A M A Z I N G! As I’m sure you’ve noticed a theme going on with the letterpress Valentine’s Collection 2011 – here is yet another set of cards inspired by my love for music. Calligraphy was done by the fabulous Grace Edmands Calligraphy and then incorporated into design for 2 really pretty Valentine’s Day Cards. Grace, thanks for collaborating on such a fun project – you really made these rock!

Let Love Grow (above) inspired by Mumford & Sons Winter Winds:

Love, it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free…

Here is Mumford & Sons live with Sigh No More (inspired above) – you have to listen to the song change about half-way though and then go check it out on Amazon or iTunes. It’s truly magical.

Cards Letterpress printed on Arturo 4Bar notes with blank interior, paired with matching envelopes and sold in singles in our Etsy shop. 2 inks, deckle edge, it doesn’t get much better than this.
Calligraphy ©2011 Grace Edmands , Design ©2011 Dingbat Press

LOVE goes on and on!

Adrienne — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:47:46 +0000

If any of you have sentiment for this song in Robin Hood (and recently in Fantastic Mr. Fox as well) then you will want this limited edition print we did in honor of love, life, and its eternal cycle. Every time I hear this, it brings me back to my childhood nostalgia of young love & innocence.

Letterpress 8×10″ print in 2 inks (red/charcoal) on 110#/300GSM paper. Signed and numbered edition of 30, you can get yourself one in the shop here or by clicking on any of the images. Give the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day, as a bridal gift, or anniversary gift – I know I’ll be keeping one of these for myself!

Lyrics by Nancy Adams. You may remember this tune from Disney’s Robin Hood©
or Wes Anderson’s Fantastic Mr. Fox©.

Who loves WOOD TYPE?!

Adrienne — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:59:55 +0000

You may recognize this if you follow me on Twitter – it is a larger than life original X piece of wood type. Antique, patina and all around gorgeous, I acquired this baby on eBay back in 2001 along with it’s soulmate O. They are so large in fact, that they extend beyond the press bed (and print area).

So to work this baby out – we had to shorten our dead area (usually there is a dead bar at the front of the press which keeps the grippers from hitting the printed form and damaging not only the grippers but the type as well). To shorten our dead area we had to be extra cautious, and a small piece of furniture was inserted in replacement of the dead bar (see that wood block on the press? that’s called furniture in printer’s speak).

Next we had to FLOOD the press with ink. Printing large image area is a totally different ball game than business cards. Business cards require the most minute amount of ink – too much and the ink will muck things up and make your type horribly ugly. However with large areas, a lot more is required – and when doing multiple prints (without an ink fountain that automatically feed the ink on the press) I had to ink up quite a few times.

In the end, there is an amazing variety that happened with these prints. Both the X and O had unique wear to them so when over-printed (the process of laying one image area over the other) those details came out in this fabulous western wood type way. Distressed and tasteful and beautiful! On some of the prints we added a third color (pink) which was under the gold and offset by about a 1/4″ to give a drop shadow effect – those we kept for valentine’s gifts but were equally cool.

I can’t believe that after all these years of my X and O sitting on the shelf that I never made time to get them on press! Finally they are ready and I’m giving one away to a lucky reader/tweeter/FBer!

The Specs: 1 (one) letterpress extra-large poster of the XO. sized 13×19″, 2 inks (red/matte antique gold). Signed and numbered of an edition of 50. unframed – and shipped in a tube for safe mailing.

TO ENTER:
You can comment for 1 entry,
tweet for another entry with hashtag #XOposter and make sure you metnion @DingbatPress and comment back here with your tweet,
and for a third entry post it in your feed on Facebook (and again come back and provide a link :)

You have until Jan. 14 midnight MST to enter. A winner will be selected at random and announced by the end of the week!

Or if you want one RIGHT NOW, just hop on over to the Etsy shop and get one. These babies are ready to ship!

Ringing in 2011 – letterpress style!

Adrienne — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:40:24 +0000

So it’s another new year – and I’m a resolution kind of gal. So after you look at these pretty New Years Eve letterpress invitations, then check out the goings on planned for 2011 and sit back and watch it all happen as we blog and grow Dingbat Press.

Letterpress New Year’s Eve wedding invitations. Printed on 110# Ecru paper in matte metallic antique gold, and matte metallic pewter ink. A7 (5×7″) finished size for the invitation, and 3.5×5″ reply paired with printed matching envelopes.

Personal Resolution #1

I’m not buying anything for myself this year. No clothes, toys, pretty things what-so-ever. National Stationery Show is the only thing I’ll be splurging on :)

Obvious Business Resolution #1

Grow Dingbat Press!

In the coming year, the following goals will be blogged about – as we pass them off – its our biggest event yet and I can’t wait to share it with you all!

Finish 2011 Collections: Wedding, Ready-Made and Digital (yes we are venturing into the offset arena for our customizable goods!) Print New Biz Cards: and with that, master the die-cutting on the windmill. Put together THE BOOK: you know, the one that goes with the wedding collection. Design our booth for NSS: and fire-proof it, build it and ship it to NYC. Finalize our signage for NSS: and get our wholesale price-lists, order sheets, promotional material, and press kits ready. Send out our Pre-show promotions: letting everyone know where we’ll be at! Book flights: confirm hotel reservations, booth space, set-up and take-down. PRINT PRINT PRINT! all our new collections. Launch: Our wholesale catalogue…and much much more!

The Holidays are under way GIVEAWAY!

Adrienne — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 20:01:34 +0000

The Holidays are among us – enter to win by Monday, December 6th at 10pm MST…

A set fo 25 letterpress greeting cards, in the pattern of your choice…

Comment to enter, and tweet for an extra entry…

and tell us which one is your favorite!

Letterpress printed on 100# cotton paper, paired with matching envelopes and a blank interior. Sized at 5.5×5.5″.
Or to get yourself a set now, pick one up over at the Etsy shop!

UPDATED! Congrats to Meredith – we’ll be in touch to see which set of cards you’d like :)

Ornament letterpress gift tags

Adrienne — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:05:36 +0000

These letterpress gift tags were so fun to print on the Heidelberg – I feel like with these I finally am getting there with good registration on 2 and 3 color work on that press. Below are the three color-ways available in the holiday section of the shop and below that is some matching gift wraps that you can match to your tags make your gifts look pretty! To order tags, click on any of the images in the post to be linked to their listing in the shop for ordering.

Giveaway on FRIDAY!

Adrienne — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:40:04 +0000

Here’s a sneak peek of a little something I’ve had up my sleeve for the last month! Check back Friday for the full unveiling and to enter for a chance to win.