Recipe Cards

Recipe cards...  
When it comes down to it, I am a collector at heart.  I try to keep it in check, no sense in storing up riches... 
But, there are some things that I just hang on to:  favorite books, sea glass, great yarn, buttons, paint brushes, pictures, momentos from the boys, sweet reminders from the hubby, and of course recipe cards.  
   I like to search out recipes, I like to write them out, I like to share them and of course I love to cook them!  I adore new recipes.  I suppose recipe cards are one way that I collect cooking.  I like to write little notes on them, what I tried different, what worked and what didn't.  Or I write the date on it, as if I passed it after a music lesson! (you know, after you sufficiently accomplished a musical score you get the date put on it)
At any rate, recipe cards are on little paper product that I find endearing.  (Can I say that?)


Obsession with Pink
I can't put my finger on the exact date when fushia/ pink became a problem.  No, I wasn't a pink lover as a child.  There were no pink comforters and pillow cases, I didn't wear pink ribbons.  If you asked me what my favorite color was, I would have told you blue.
So what happened? I don't know.  If you ask my husband I am color blind, or suffer from color dementia; some days I just don't know green from blue....

I splash fushia/ pink with out shame across the blog and etsy site. I take artistic liberties with our name (Vermilion is not a fushia pink red, it is an orangish-red). I get tickled when I mix up that glorious color.  And Mr. Henry always, always looks best when his rollers are inked in that color.


If I were asked to pick a color that best described me, I would not pick pink...
I must be in pink denial.

Eat Your Cake Too


Photographing your letterpress isn't always easy.  I mean, it's a flat piece of paper!  There are no angles on paper, again it's flat!  So I have to get creative with the photography.  Looking at photo after photo of pieces of paper gets menotinous pretty quick. Not to mention I loose motivation.
So generally, I end up using props.  (Sounds so silly to say it).  Props of something that is related.  
Today= PINK CAKE!!!


And yes, I ate some....  I thought it made the photo...

Here is another treasury with some cute recipe cards....

Letterpress Free Sunday

Tomorrow is Sunday.

Tomorrow is Letterpress Free.

Wow!

Breaks are so important!

I thought that I would just put up a few photos of some current things I have been working on.

This is one of my favorite vintage fonts.  It is called Bernhard Tango and was design in the 1920's.  I bought it vintage- thus it is missing capital "k" and a few of the letters are dinged.  Making it hard for me to offer this font to customers until I can find more of it.  (It is not made any more)

Aren't they marvelous tags?  Thick cotton paper, vintage type, silver ink and of course handprinted.

Another simple and bright tag- if I don't sell them all I might just use them on my packages.

Finally- Coasters- A Light at the end of the Tunnel

I am almost reached the end of my stack of orders. (I can see the light!  That means I will have time for Shopping, Gingerbread Houses, Decorating, Cookies, searching out those hard to find gifts...)  Unfortuantly, I realized that I had one order that was in a color that I printed last night.  (Ugh!!  See- you can only print one color at a time, and cleaning the press is time consuming.  You have to clean all the rollers- the ink disk...  All of which takes time.  So when printing I line up the invoices by color- and try to print as much of one color as possible.  I MISSED ONE.  Wanna kich myself.
That and I am sick.  On the holiday rush...

See all the ink- it all has to be cleaned before you can print a new color

Anyway- I am gonna do the drawing for the little coasters.  Way over due--- guess I'll have to throw in something for the ladies.
Thanks gals- by the way.




1.the wonderful Soap Seduction
2.the wonderful Soap Seduction
3. Becky (who likes the Very Mod Callings cards)
4.Becky (who also pointed out that I need to have other ways for individuals to follow- working on the Facebook- sigh!!!)
5.Random Creative
6.Maitri
7.Dori
8. Patricia
9. WilksOak Studio
10. Mamma Sharp


And- there was only one person that seemed to do my "proofing" for me.  If she could resend/ contact me that would be great.

NUMBER 5!  Congrats- after the long wait.  Coasters are yours...

Giveaway- Win Our Coasters

These coasters are so much fun!!! (I suppose I am a little biased)

Anyway- they are the perfect little package to slip into a stocking, give to a co-worker, or even hang from your ceiling and dance under.  (A little extreme I suppose...)

I thought we would make this a little fun! Contest ends December 1st.

Rules:

a. Become a follower (my lonely blog would love your face on the sidebar!)

b. Edit my letterpress tag! (this is the fun part- see images below)

c. Pick a favorite from my etsy shop (let me know you did that)

d. All the above (get an entry for each)

Here are the tags that I printed.  They are handset type (meaning each letter is a little piece of lead with a letter on it.  The tag on the right has the mistakes.  This font is 8pt (Bernhard Gothic Light) and  one of my favorites.

Find The Mistakes (Hint- I believe there are only three)

Send me a comment and let me know what I messed up on!!!

Mr. Lincoln will give you an idea of the size we are working with.

And this is what it looks like- the back of the tag is on the bottom half.  At the time I printed the tags - I also started printing recipe tags.  So this picture illustrates the Recipe tag.  (to save time I printed both sides at once and then cut them.  Originally I thought I would be able to fold the tag at the bottom and save time- nope it looked ucky.)

Good luck- you've got lots of ways to win!  These are on sale in my etsy shop if you want more- we have other styles too!

The Letterpress Story

I never was good at talking about myself or art.  So, it was extremely difficult for me to make this up for a shop that will be selling out Christmas coasters.  I knew it was time to put a face to the work...