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Got my invite design back from the letterpress printer...

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    escapekiken    October 10, 2010   Mountain View, CA

    Mrs. Cupcake's engraved invitations lead me into doing a lot of researching on letterpress...I decided not to print them myself (due to time and cost for now) but I did want to design them. 

    There's something to be said about using a 19th century craft! 

     

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    ccranetobe    August 14, 2010  

    aww gorgeous!! love the colors! great work!

     
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    parfait    April 2010   Chicago, IL

    Ooh, beautiful work!

     
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    Ms. Meowerson    May 12, 2012  

    WANT....who did you use??

     
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    Gemstone    July 2011   Cincinnati

    Lovely!!! I'm impressed. :)

     
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    jgkittymom3    July 31, 2010   Living in PA, marrying in NJ

    Gorgeous!!!!!!!!!

     
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    smith207    October 2, 2010  

    Those are great!

     
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    cardigan    January 7, 2011   Austin, TX

    Gorgeous!

     
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    jjwedding    May 14, 2011   Victoria, BC

    I love it!! simple but very pretty

     
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    Tswife4ever    May 28, 2011   California

    WOW!!!!!! SO PRETTY!

     
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    tksjewelry    June 25, 2011   Omaha

    Very Pretty!

     
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    Aimee_Surprenant    September 24, 2011   Marco Island, FL.

    love them, they look great... Tacky questions- but about how much does that cost? And for how many? Thinking about doing something similar but curious what the cost would be.... thanks. 

     
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    escapekiken    October 10, 2010   Mountain View, CA

    Kseniya Thomas of Thomas Printers printed these out for me...I don't want to disclose the exact cost but her cost was even better than Aerialist Press and Mercurio Brothers who already have really great pricing for letterpress. I believe just about any letterpress printer will work with you to use your own design.

    http://theaerialistpress.com/

    http://mercuriobrothers.com/

    What's I think is awesome about letterpress it's not just made by a machine...someone has to place each piece of paper into the press and ink them. And that it's a 15-19th century craft that people have turned into small businesses. 

    If you want to see my invite inspiration/design process you can checkout my blog post here:http://iwant10courses.blogspot.com/2010/06/invitations-are-here-invitations-are.html

    This is pretty awesome video of reprinting the Pictorial Webster by old school methods of making books (letterpress):

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4zL4UN0Gc

     

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