We're in the midst of designing and printing invitations for Summer 2011 weddings.  It is refreshing to ink up the presses in cheerful colors and think about bright flowers, lush trees and outdoor celebrations!  One of our favorite details on an invitation is an unexpected pop of color painted on the edge of a card.  Here is a detail of a set of pink edged cards.  It almost seems a shame to have to separate the stacks to send these out!

Our friend Charlotte Rivers, author of Reinventing Letterpress, is giving away a set of our mini silhouette tags today.  Please visit her beautiful blog, Lottie Loves, for details.

If you're in the NYC area, please come visit us at the Brooklyn Flea on Saturday the 12th.  We'll be selling cheery valentine cards, tags, stationery sets... Our friends at Bonbon Oiseau will be selling lockets and other lovely jewelry.  We've collaborated on some special gift-boxes, each with a pair of Bonbon vintage charm earrings, a Sesame letterpress card and a bag of Papabubble Valentine candies, for $45. The Gift-box profits will go to the American Heart Association.If you're feeling darker, we'll also have some skull items.  Please stop by to say hello.

We always love printing baby announcements because the images and colors are so sweet and happy.  This snowy sledding design is one of our favorites!

We've really loved collaborating with West Elm to design plates and platters this year.  They've been so nice to work with and it's been fun to see our work on something other than paper.  Our Spring Garden plates are now available in West Elm stores and on their website.

We're in love with tissue-lined envelopes right now!  The delicate textures and bright colors add a really nice dimension to simple white envelopes.  We're working on a new line of note cards to compliment the lined envelopes, because we can't just make and sell plain envelopes (or can we...?).  Here are a couple photos of the designs we have at the moment.  We're packing these as sets of 50 in our new deluxe gift boxes.  We think the hearts cards or the tandem bike cards would make particularly nice Valentine's Day gifts!

Our studio is located in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY right under the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan Bridge. During the 12 years we've been here, the neighborhood has gone from something out of a gangster movie "disposal" site to something more along the lines of SoHo.

Our studio filled with Victorian Era presses has been a steady mix of old cast iron machines, crisp white papers and bright inks. Add the smells of solvents and coffee and some NPR or old French music... and the photos below... and you can imagine a little slice of our days in the studio.

Here is a shot of some of our latest personal stationery projects.