Stationery Saturday returns

Ever wanted to see, up-close and personal, how letterpress printing works? Tomorrow is your big chance. Stop by the Lunalux studio store during our regular hours (11:00a.m. – 6:00p.m.) for Stationery Saturday. We’ll be creating customized stationery on the spot for all interested parties. The design this week: a 5×7 100% cotton notecard blind-embossed with up to 9 letters across the top edge. Cards can be paired with your choice of red, white or blue envelopes. For $29, you get 10 cards and envelopes, plus a one-on-one letterpress-printing demo. Complete details can be found on our Stationery Saturday page. If you miss this weekend’s event, we’ll be doing it again in October.

Design + Print: tiny calling cards

Remember when Kitty joined the Lunalux crew last August as an intern? She’s recently been promoted to part-time employee, as she’s such a help around the studio, with everything from creating window displays to packing orders for our wholesale accounts. She’s a joy to work with, and more indispensable each day. Her birthday is this weekend, so do stop in the shop on Saturday to wish her another great year!

We recently made some fun calling cards for Kitty. Because she’s fascinated with Tiny Things, we made the card Very Small – it measures just 1.5 by 2.5 inches. But it’s also printed on 220# 100% cotton Lettra cover, making it both one of the smallest and one of the thickest cards we’ve ever created. We bind-embossed a folksy floral image all over the card, and then imprinted her basic info in black ink. With the soft paper and dramatic texture created by the deep impression of the graphic, the card feels remarkable. So much so, I’m kinda jealous – it’s maybe even cooler than my own business card!

First Anniversary: paper

Ages ago, someone made a list of traditional presents for wedding anniversaries. We all know that 40th wedding anniversaries are honored with silver stuff, and for the 50th we give gold. But would you ever think that tradition dictates a gift of bronze or appliances for the eighth anniversary? As stationers, we at Lunalux are particularly glad that the first anniversary is acknowledged with gifts of paper.

So when David Hale came into our store and asked me to work on personal stationery for his wife as a gift for their first anniversary, I was both happy to help and impressed that he was honoring the tradition of giving paper to his wife Meghan on their first wedding anniversary. I hand-wrote an elegant note explaining that we were at her service to create custom stationery to her liking, and David gave that card to her on their anniversary. During subsequent meetings with Meghan, we considered many different motifs, fonts and color combinations. Ultimately we decided on a design that honors her Irish heritage: a shamrock pressed, without any ink, deep into thick white paper (we sometimes refer to this as “blind embossing” even though it’s really not), with her name printed in gold ink. We also printed the same shamrock on bright green A7 envelopes. In the end, Meghan was thrilled with her personal stationery, and we give David a gold star for his thoughtfulness!

« Previous Page