Stationery Saturday: Two projects, one day
Stationery Saturday on December 3 will feature two different projects. Personalized photo cards will be running on the Heidelberg Windmill, while the Vandercook cranks out Americana buckslips. Whichever you choose, you’ll go home with a unique set of cards, printed just for you. First up: Holiday Photo Cards! We’ve created three different designs, pre-printed with a seasonal greeting and a decorative border. Choose from the cherry red Merry Christmas, aqua Happy New Year, or lime green December Whatever. All cards measure 5×7 inches, are letterpress-printed on shimmery bright white card stock, and have room for a horizontal photo. The press will be inked up with jet-black ink, and we’ll print your family name or other brief phrase along the bottom. All you have to do is slap a snapshot on there when you get home, are they’re ready for the USPS. And to answer your question, we recommend a glue stick. The photo cards include matching white envelopes, but you can upgrade to even fancier lined envelopes for an additional $1 per piece. These are gonna knock the socks off everyone on your mailing list!
We’re also revisiting one of our favorite Stationery Saturday projects from this past year: Americana Buckslips! We created this suite of four designs over the summer, but we think they look pretty good this time of year too. You choose your favorite motif: patriotic bunting, arm & hammer, stars & stripes, or time flies. The name or phrase of your choice will be printed in black ink using 24-point Huxley Vertical, a slender & elegant font, on the hand-cranked proof press. You can even try operating the press yourself if you like! Cards measure approximately 4 by 9 inches, and will be paired with your choice of parchment-style open-end envelopes. We’ll tie a letterpress-printed tag to the package using lovely baker’s twine, and the set is ready for gifting (or hoarding).
While we try to change things up a bit each time we host a new Stationery Saturday event, some things remain the same. The presses run all day, from 11a.m. to 6p.m. We’ll have homemade baked goods and fresh coffee to nourish the body, and lots of good cheer to nourish the soul! Quantities are limited, and guests are served on a first-come-first-served basis. Cost is $29 for a set of 10 cards with plain envelopes (additional cards with the same imprint are available for $2.00 each). Visit our Stationery Saturday page for more details. We’ve even created an event listing on the Lunalux facebook page, if you’d like to R.S.V.P. and/or invite your pals to come along. Give us a jingle at 612-373-0526 if you have any questions.
Stationery Saturday: Patriotic Buckslips
September 7, 2011 by Jenni · Leave a Comment
As the summer winds down, we’re feeling nostalgia for mom-baseball-and-apple-pie kinds of comforts. With love of country in our heart and the national anthem on our mind, we created a series of four red-white-and-blue buckslip notecards. During the September 10 Stationery Saturday event, all four designs will be available for personalization while you wait! The 4×9 flat cards will be pre-printed with navy and scarlet icons. The Heidelberg windmill press will be loaded with gray ink, and our case of 14-point Caslon Italic will be at the ready. Stop by our shop between 11a.m. and 6p.m. and we’ll do your stationery biding – the name or phrase of your choice can be printed on a set of 10 cards for just $29. Cards will be paired with parchment-style number-10 envelopes (your choice: gray, tan or natural white). It’s gonna look nice and old-timey!
Our store is jam-packed with great greeting cards, notebooks and other papery treats right now, so there’s good shopping to be done while you’re waiting for your turn at the press. And we’ll have coffee and homemade cookies to share as well. There’s really no reason for you to not stop by this Saturday.
We’ve created a facebook event for this weekend’s Stationery Saturday, in case you feel like RSVP-ing and/or inviting all the stationery-o-philes you’re connected to. And if you can’t come in this Saturday, no worries – you can order on line! We’ve added this weekend’s designs to our online storefront at feltandwireshop.com.
September Stationery Saturday: Minnesota Buckslips
September 8, 2010 by Jenni · 2 Comments
It’s Stationery Saturday time again. And you know what that means: personalized stationery letterpress-printed while you wait, for just $29.00. This Saturday, September 11, we’re offering note cards featuring four handsome motifs: a Minnesota silhouette, a Minneapolis stamp, a St. Paul stamp, and three stars. We’ll print the name or phrase of your choice (25 characters and spaces, max) in red ink using a newly acquired font of vintage Huxley Vertical lead type. These buckslips (that’s a 3.875×9.25-inch flat card that fits into a standard business-size envelope) are printed on 100# natural white Strathmore Pastelle felt-finish cover – it’s a hefty stock, feels very substantial, and takes the letterpress impression very nicely. Finished cards will be paired with matching deckle-edge envelopes, and packaged with ribbon and a letterpress-printed Lunalux tag. All the names/phrases on the cards shown here were chosen by our fans – we had a contest on the Lunalux facebook page, and the winners’ ideas were used to print samples. You can visit our Stationery Saturday page to read more about the event, see a list of other upcoming dates, and view photos of past Stationery Saturday designs. Or use the event listing on facebook to RSVP and tell all your paper-lovin’ friends about it too. Stationery Saturday runs 11a.m.-6p.m.; we’ll also have coffee and homemade cookies to share all day. We’re excited to hang out with all y’all!
For folks who are dying to get their paws on some of these limited edition cards, but geography or their schedule doesn’t permit them to visit our studio on the 11th of September, we now have a way for you to order Stationery Saturday cards online. Just visit the new Lunalux shop at feltandwireshop.com, a curated stationery marketplace, where you can view product listings for all four designs, and order your favorite. This is a new experiment for us, so we hope someone will try it out and we hope it goes smoothly!
Enter to win free letterpress stationery
We’ve just unveiled the designs for our September Stationery Saturday event, and we need to personalize some of each to use as samples. What should we print on these samples? You decide! Enter our contest for your chance to win one of four sets of personal stationery. Winners will receive 15 buckslip flats, imprinted in red ink with the name or phrase of their choice (one line of text below the image, up to 30 characters and spaces), featuring one of four designs: Minnesota silhouette, three stars, Minneapolis stamp or St. Paul stamp. The hefty natural white felt-finish notes will be paired with blank #10 envelopes.
To enter the contest, visit www.lunalux.com/saturday to read about Stationery Saturday and review the four design choices for September; then tell us about your favorite by writing on the Lunalux Facebook wall. Your post must mention a) which of the four buckslip designs you like best, b) what you want printed on the card, and c) how you will use them. We’ll pick four winners, one for each design, and post the results at facebook.com/lunalux
Entries must be live on our wall by Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 3:00p.m. CST. You can post an entry for more than one design. The winners’ personalized cards will be used to promote Stationery Saturday – we’ll put pictures of them on the web, and display them in our Minneapolis shop. We’ll ship the cards to you (or to a friend, if it’s a gift) after the September 11 event.
