One reason I haven’t been posting much to my blog in the past few weeks is that I was working hard on letterpressing these “Save the Date” cards for my good friends Sara and Chris. (Remember Sara? She taught us all how to make homemade vanilla extract.) This is a fun project for me, because their wedding has a very different vibe and theme than our wedding did. Ours was naturey and full of browns and blues. Sara and Chris are planning a classy (although comfy!) wedding in black and white with red accents. Sara can’t get enough of black swirls, which work oh-so-beautifully on the letterpress.

Here’s the letterpress all inked up in black. Isn’t she a beauty? The chase is only 8″x5″, so we can’t make anything too large.

Closeup of running the black ink plate. We get these plates made from this great company Owosso Graphic Arts, Inc. out of Michigan.

Lots of “Save the Date” cards!! Sara packaged them up in cute red envelopes and stamped the backs of the envelopes with a “Shuffle off to Buffalo” rubber stamp. I hope her guests all marked their calendars accordingly!