Giving these ferns plenty of sunlight to grow!😉🌿🌞 No fancy drying rack here, just ribbon and clothes pins, making room to make it work!📜 I like to make larger prints but naturally, they take up more room. You can never have enough prints or plant babies though. Fact. 🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚🌿
Afternoons in my office this time of year are *perfection* when it comes to the bright, cheery light!☀️😎✨ Loving this fern print so much.🌿💚 I originally had the idea to create a reduction print but when I did my first test print, I was surprised at how much I liked the just silhouette. I love happy surprises! I am dandy with not carving away any more on this printed plant baby. 🌿💚🌿💚🌿💚
I mixed up a color somewhere in between the bright and deep green hues on this fern.🌿 Gorgeous, I love this cheery green! 💚
Gimme gimme all the green!💚 Inked up again to print.📜
First fern test print.
This is how I entertain myself while carving.➰Curlicues for days.➰
Flexcut Friday around the studio.
Mirror image! 🌿Fern I + II🌿 Very pleased with the impression made from linoleum block to linoleum block!⬜️⬜️ Seeing them next to each other makes me so excited to get carving on the second fern!🔪
Carving the fern on the front porch.
Linoleum carving work in process.
Tracing over the pencil detail with sharpie.
Inspiration for the carving and start of the drawing, directly on the print block for this one.
Flower print experiment.
Blocks inked up.
Test print.
Inspiration.
Metallic moon prints.
Color variety for the moon.
Metallic ink in the light.
I love metallic inks the most.
Carving the moon.
Moon work in progress.
Drawing the moon on the linoleum block.
Cherokee rose print.
Cherokee rose prints, some two color some one color.
Key block.
Original drawing.
Block one and two.
Leaves of the plant.
Block and original drawing.
Sunflower linoleum block inked up.
Sunflower block and print.
Sunflower prints.
Detail of sunflower print - all hand drawn and carved.
Detail of sunflower carving.
The first sunflower block I carved.
Getting mathematical.
Drawing the sunflower.
Original drawing for print inspiration.
Detail of linoleum print, I finished this with iridescent mica powder on the dragonfly.
Linoleum carving in progress for a hibiscus flower.
Tracing over the pencil with sharpie marker.
Original drawing and inspiration.
Studio light with the hibiscus drying.
I made smaller prints using just the upper left corder of this linoleum carving.
Gold and silver ink on the linoleum block.
Detail of the hibiscus carving inked with gold ink for the first time.
Example of carving and print.
Silver ink.
Detail of overprint.
Silver ink shining in the light.
Overprint detail.
Tools for printing.
Carving in process.
Azalea print.
Completed azalea carving.
Azalea carving detail.
Original drawing transferred to linoleum block.
Printing in progress for custom "Olive U" card designed for Golden Isles Olive Oil Company.
Custom letterpress and linoleum print cards for Golden Isles Olive Oil Company.
12x18 Broadsides printed for 2019 Brunswick Porchfest.
Some of my favorite carving tools.
Example of overprint experiment.
Mixing ink.
Creating art with heart.
Magnolia print.
Original Magnolia drawing on linoleum block.
All hand set type with heart created using ornaments.
You are magical letterpress card.
Adana printer with lockup and inked to print.
Southern Ladies have Grits and Grace print.
Sunshine notecard.
Letterpress cards.
You are my shining star letterpress card.
Setting type.
Picking out type for card.
You are my shining star with gold metallic ink.
I ❤️ U card
I ❤️ U lockup
Adana letterpress printer.
I ❤️ U lockup ready for print.
LOVE YOU! letterpress cards.
Cute space robot for a love the goes beyond the moon.
Vintage space robot for a love that reaches the moon!
Vintage space robot print block.
Space robot on the Adana press for printing.
Ombré metallic silver and gold ink for this letterpress card.
Vintage trailer notecards.
Live in the Meow letterpress card -- PURRfect for the cutie-cat in your life.
Manatee notecards printed with vintage print block.
Metallic ink shimmering in the sun.
Letterpress lion notecards.
Letterpress lion detail.
Vintage manatee print block.
Shrimply adorable notecards.
Letterpress penguin notecards.
Vintage letterpress print block.
Two color letterpress print, Home is Where the Sweet Tea is Served!
Letterpress card with fun matching Georgia postage.
Brunswick print.
Kiss Kiss Paper
I create small letterpress goods to share sweet sentiments and pretty art prints to bring more joy to your mailbox and walls.
Kiss Kiss Paper is inspired by the term kiss impression. When paper, ink and print blocks meet—it’s beautiful print smooches. In printing; kiss impression is when the printer applies just enough pressure to the type or printing plate to give adequate ink coverage on the paper. Plus Kiss Kiss just sounds fun! That’s what I like to create: fun, light-hearted, sweet, happy things that make you smile.
The stationery I create is hand printed with a lot of love on an Adana 8x5 press from the 1950s. I use antique wood and lead type, and vintage print blocks; each card is printed one at a time. Some of the vintage type is distressed and worn so that every card is unique and there may be differences with ink coverage making each feel special.
The art prints are created by drawing, carving and printing from a linoleum block that is hand-inked and each printed one by one. I’m inspired by nature, bold silhouettes and delicate line details.
I started printing in 2016 when I adopted my lil' lady Adana press (painted teal-love!) and began printing as Lady Hanover Press in a studio that overlooked a park called Hanover Square. I was lucky enough to take print classes at Ashantilly Press to learn more, improve technique and just have fun geeking out on all things print. I enjoy the creative process of learning more as I go along. I’ve been practicing, studying and sharing my love of printing through creating greetings cards, participating in markets and sharing what I know at intro to block printing classes.
The stationery I create is hand printed with a lot of love on an Adana 8x5 press from the 1950s. I use antique wood and lead type, and vintage print blocks; each card is printed one at a time. Some of the vintage type is distressed and worn so that every card is unique and there may be differences with ink coverage making each feel special.
The art prints are created by drawing, carving and printing from a linoleum block that is hand-inked and each printed one by one. I’m inspired by nature, bold silhouettes and delicate line details.
I started printing in 2016 when I adopted my lil' lady Adana press (painted teal-love!) and began printing as Lady Hanover Press in a studio that overlooked a park called Hanover Square. I was lucky enough to take print classes at Ashantilly Press to learn more, improve technique and just have fun geeking out on all things print. I enjoy the creative process of learning more as I go along. I’ve been practicing, studying and sharing my love of printing through creating greetings cards, participating in markets and sharing what I know at intro to block printing classes.
Abode Studios in Savannah, Georgia.
Welcoming students to class.
Class setup.
Class setup.
Students drawing on their carving blocks.
Students working.
Example of student work.
Student carving flower.
Students carving their work.
Working away.
Carved block.
Students concentration.
Brittany making a pretty floral print.
Student carving.
Completed carving.
Puppy carving in progress.
Fern carving in progress.
Working away.
Getting inky.
Vinny the dog.
Student work.
Inking up the block.
Student work.
Amazing work!
Students and their work.
Students and their work.
Gorgeous bull print.
Student skull work.
Pretty hand drawn monogram.
Example of student work.
Inking up the block.
Block and print.
Students working.
Pattern play for this student, lovely!
Happy, smiling printers.
Prints and blocks.
Carving.
Bull print.
Inking up the block.
Experimenting with inking up the block.
Students working.
Having fun printing.
Busy printing and carving.
Carving the skull out of the block.
Skull and the printout the student used as inspiration.
Students working at their own pace.
Transferring drawings to the block.
Tracing over the drawing with sharpie.
Abode Studios
One of the great joys I have is being able to share my love of print and design. I led an Introduction to Print Block workshop periodically at Abode Studios in Savannah. I love to teach and share my enthusiasm for art and creating with those willing to learn.
In the class, participants were introduced to the process of relief printing including tools and materials to use, how to draw on and prepare the block, carving and printing.
Cover of WellWed magazine, invitations were featured.
WellWed feature with the wedding stationery I designed.
Outer envelope and wedding invitation.
Invitation design.
Outer envelope.
Return addressing.
Die cut invitation featuring the Maine coast.
Photographs featured in WellWed magazine.
Invitation detail of the Maine coast.
RSVP envelope.
Invitation detail.
Invitation.
Invitation.
Sea themed details.
Invitation with crab.
Invitation.
Crab sticker seal.
Crab detail to tie into the place settings for the wedding.
Invitation design.
Detail of the invitation.
Reply card.
Sticker seals for the envelopes.
Photos from the magazine feature.
Envelope seals.
Place card.
Example of placards.
Place card.
Instructions for guests to leave a note.
Custom notecards
Photograph from WellWed magazine featuring the notecards.
Variety of notecard options.
Notecard details.
Seahorse illustration.
Hors d'oeuvres menu.
Hors d'oeuvres top menu detail.
Hors d'oeuvres bottom of menu detail.
Dinner menu.
Dinner plate matches the dinner menu.
Detail of the top of the dinner menu.
Detail of the bottom of the dinner menu.
Drink menu - Shees to the Wind.
Detail of bar menu.
Detail of the bottom of the bar menu.
Dessert menu.
Octopuses illustration.
Menu shots from WellWed magazine.
Bar menu and dinner menu photos from WellWed magazine.
Place settings.
Wedding details.
Place setting.
Wedding details.
Daisies & Pearls - Wedding Invitation Design
Worked with owner Sarah Goodwin to create one-of-a-kind wedding invitations with a theme based upon a ghost tale of a bride who cheerfully inhabits an inn on Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
The shoot was staged to promote Ms. Goodwin’s event planning business and has been featured in WellWed Magazine. I created save the dates, sticker seals, address labels, invitations, RSVP cards, place cards, stationery, table cards and menus for the dinner, dessert and drinks.