New lace goodies on Etsy!

Thanks Courtney of French Country Cottage for posting about us on your blog! She's hosting a giveaway for our new set of paper goods on Etsy. These lace inspired cards and mini notebooks are just in time for spring!

Ashley + Ben save the dates

It's a nice break for me when a client comes in with their own design. This way, I get to sit back a bit and focus on the printing. Ben is an architecture student and was planning on laser cutting their save-the-dates himself on a piece of wood. Super cool. I love mixing wood with paper...

They just needed me to letterpress the enclosure and envelopes and to consult with them on production. It was very thoughtful of them to send me a complete set, I love how it all came together. Great job!

Cavallo wedding #2

Finished these Save-the-dates for another Cavallo wedding this time in August. Vintage/Americana themed paper goodness with a folded map and custom pattern inside. Lovely calligraphy in gold by Neither Snow with an assortment of vintage stamps collected by the bride.

Envelopes were hand-made, just folded text weight navy paper, glued the seam in the middle and ran one side through a sewing machine. We closed by folding the other end and sealed with custom letterpressed address labels.

We came across this envelope addressed to the White House while assembling. Apparently if you send the president an invite you will receive an official congratulatory letter. How fun, right? The bride and groom have a great sense of humor. I love this notion :)

Will be walking these up the street to the post office tomorrow. After spending so much time designing and crafting a set like this, letting them go is always so bitter-sweet. But the idea that people will be receiving these lovelies in the mail always makes me smile. So all the hard work is always worth it.

Cavallo wedding #1

Just delivered this Japanese-inspired wedding suite for clients Rachel and Blake who are getting married at Cavallo Point this spring. When we first met a couple of months ago the gingko trees just started to shed their pretty leaves and the image resonated with me. This design is organic from it's conception to final product. Love it when things just happen naturally :)

Stitching by Mira Aster -- Anne's attention to detail is exquisite.

envelopes were individually hand stamped

These were my setups, trying to get the yellow just right. The top ones were too dark for the job but I still really love the copper color base.

belly band with their monogram double "SS" that created a heart shape. cute.

On Style Me Pretty today

Thank you to Edyta & Kaella for putting this inspired photoshoot together. All the vendors did an awesome job make sure to check them out here. Thanks SMP!

(part 5): Printing lace

One of my goals this year for the shop is to produce more goods to sell online on my Etsy shop. I think this would be a fun way to explore creating things I haven't yet found the right custom project for. So why not make it for myself?

Julia and I were brainstorming one day and were inspired by lace. She remembered seeing a friend print it before so we decided to re-visit and try for ourselves. So with a bit of lace, a lino block, some hot glue, and a couple of hours later on press, we made ourselves a collection of notecards and mini-notebooks!

Products coming soon on my Etsy store, stay tuned!

Palm Desert Suite

Kyla and Michael's invites from this past spring, more to come from my website currently in the works...

This design inspired Kelsey (The Whole Cake) to make this 3-tiered interpretation during our spring soiree in April:

In progress...

Sorting through my new portfolio photos for my website re-design--so much to do still! Just a sneak peek of what's to come from Christine & Jeremy's wedding this past May. (Thanks Design Lab for taking such great photos!)

Dog + Letterpress

I'm so excited to announce two of my favorite things brought together this month! My art print collab with Natalia of Design Lab Creative Studio is now up on my etsy just in time for the holidays. A portion of the sales will benefit The National Disaster Search Dog Foundation. Nat also has the print up on her online store, buying from either place will benefit the same cause. We're all about sharing the love :)

In more dog+letterpress news, the current issue of Bark Magazine features a great article about my two favorite topics of convo. I was lucky enough to be brought into the mix as my shop was the backdrop for the photos in the article (how cool is that?). Nat and I were serendipitously brought together as she and her husband Bill took the photos and designed the article. This small creative world keeps getting smaller. Max even makes a cameo (that's him in the center on the right page)!

More info of the process can be read on her blog post here.

This is a really special tribute to our four-legged-friends, I'm so proud to be a part of the print and the article. Thanks for your support! xo

New biz cards!

After 7 years of not working on my own business identity, I finally got around to making myself some new cards. Now time to work on re-designing my website to match. I feel like I opened up a can of worms!

Prints + Jewelry

Join me and Hillary Huffard next Friday Oct 7th as we show off our latest collaboration being held at Marisa Haskell's Oakland boutique. Deets here:

To Japan with Love

I donated a few special edition prints that I published here at Olive-Route to bluemoon letterpress in Japan. They are putting together an exhibit called Letterpress of Pray to help raise awareness and funds to aid tsunami and earthquake relief efforts.

The exhibit site is up, I know it's mostly in Japanese! But please take a moment to check out my artists as well as the other exhibitors in the show. Thank you Nat, Jane & Hillary for the inspiration!

On Press: Animal art prints

Hot off the presses...These are some process pics of some art collaborations I have coming up!

This 3-piece set of animal prints were illustrated by good friend Hillary Huffard who has been part of the Olive-Route team for the past couple of years. I'm producing these prints to help promote her as the amazing artist that she is :) Hillary will be watercoloring each print by hand and we're hoping to show and sell them locally soon. Details to come!

They're finally here!

After a couple of months of talking about it and another few months of slowly getting this through my production queue (held up in between wedding projects)...The Jenny Pennywood notebook collaboration project is finally ready!

We only produced a very limited edition (less than 100 sets) and we're working on getting them into some of our favorite stores. Keep checking back for more info on where to purchase these puppies!

French Country Cottage

Thanks to Courtney for posting some beautiful photos of the business cards we made for her on her  blog! She posts about interior decorating and styling and anything that has to do with Shabby Chic-ness :) Lots of great eye-candy on her site!

I've known Courtney for many years and she's always had a knack for thrifting one-of-a-kind pieces and re-purposing them into something fresh and new. She always has some great finds and ideas to share on her blog so make sure to check it out if you're looking to get inspired by some French Country...

Thanks Court! xo

On Press: Harbour Island wedding

We're at it again! Busy getting this awesome wedding suite together. Chock-full of beautiful beachy letterpressed colors and of course, more book binding!

Off the Press: Jenny Pennywood notebooks

I'm super excited about this collaboration with Jenny Pennywood!! Just looking at these notebooks makes me happy...Will keep you posted on where these can be purchased soon.

Pray for Japan

These letterpressed prints I made a couple of years ago in collaboration with artist Jane Kim will be exhibited in Japan at the at Books Kubrik Gallery and Paper Inn Gallery in Fukuoka this fall, hosed by Bluemoon Press. 100% of the proceeds from this exhibition will go directly to earthquake child support group in Iwate prefecture. 

They will host another exhibition of letterpress work in the winter at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum and I will be submitting new artist print collaborations for it which are currently in the works. Will keep you updated. 

More info regarding these exhibitions can be found on Bluemoon Press's FB page here.

These prints entitled The Elements are currently featured on my Etsy shop.

Jenny Pennywood notebooks

One of my favorite parts of the job is collaborating with other creatives. I have a few fun projects brewing this year and am super excited about this one coming up with another good pal Jen Garrido of Jenny Pennywood! I'll make sure to post more once I have them ready (shooting for sometime in August) and expect there to be lots of bright color, fun patterns, and hand-made goodness :)

For now, here's a quick pic from her website of a custom card we made.

Chewing the Cud cards

I recently printed a set of letterpressed cards designed by my pal Viola of Chewing the Cud which she debuted at the National Stationery Show this year. She's got lots of other goodies (bags, wraps, rubber stamps...) so make sure to check out her site. I have more CTC collabo stuff coming up soon so stay tuned!