Moving announcements can be loony or simple

Moving announcements are such a practical thing – when you relocate, it’s important to notify friends and family of your new contact information, so everyone can stay in touch. Getting custom-designed letterpress-printed moving announcements can be a fun way to show off your personal style, on a piece of mail that’s going to be sent to all the most important people in your life. We’ve worked on two great moving announcements lately, for very different circumstances.

I met Kristi shortly after she and her family moved from California to Minneapolis this summer. She was excited to find our store, as she’s a fellow paper addict and had seen our products in shops on the west coast. So we had a lot of fun designing custom moving announcements, wrestling with weighty details such as The Perfect Envelope and the right shade of white paper. Wanting the announcements to include a clever nod to their new home state, Kristi settled on a loon theme. The custom illustration and modern typesetting is printed on Lettra paper and paired with a feisty orange envelope, appropriate for an autumnal mailing.

This moving announcement, on the other hand, was created for a real estate agent to give to her clients as they settled in the new home she’d helped them purchase. We’ve used this pink floral motif in the past, both on business cards and on scratch pads we sell in our store. We used Strathmore Pastelle for this project, a paper that Lunalux has relied on for years for a wide assortment of wholesale and custom projects. The natural white cover stock has a felt finish, which many customers find very appealing. It’s thinner than many of the other papers we use, but it’s also relatively inexpensive, for how fancy it looks.