gift printing

After all these years of having a press I had an ah ha! moment (followed by a Homer Simpson Doh!) in realizing that I could have been making personalized note cards as gifts for friend's wedding + baby showers. When a friend recently got married I learned how many packs of thank you cards one needs for all the events involved. Fast forward to last night's baby shower for another friend, I printed 50 cards with the name they assure me is the one they are going with. 

This was my first time using this particular border + it's mounted on a thin piece of wood which has warped from age. There is a bit of wonkyness to the printing, which is part of the process. This type of printing really helps me work through some control issues. Wabi sabi.

havin' a laugh

Sometimes I just want to read some mind candy + have a good laugh, so over the past several months I've read a few recently published autobiographies by some really funny people.

• Tina Fey Bossypants
• Steve Martin Born Standing Up
• Mindy Kaling Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
• Sarah Silverman Bedwetter
• Rob Lowe Stories I Only Tell My Friends (honorable mention because he's funny on Parks & Rec)

So all this leads me to my new postcard, which ties into the above list because it's a Steve Martin quote. Have you gotten the picture thus far that I loooove Steve Martin? Well I do.

I was going through a list of his quotes + this one jumped out at me. I immediately knew how I wanted to execute the design, but not feeling terribly motivated to be in the studio, it took a couple months to actually print the postcard.

A set of 3 are available in Le Etsy Shoppe.

And I'm progressing quite nicely on some more new designs, so the next one won't take a couple more months to produce.