Around here, we certainly understand why brides opt for letterpress when thinking about wedding invitations. But a bride who wants to take on her wedding invitations as her first adventure in letterpress printing? Now that is something we can really appreciate!

Lindsay’s wedding invitations were recently featured on The Little White Book after she took advantage of the opportunity to take a letterpress class at The Bowehouse Press in Richmond during her final semester at Virginia Commonwealth University. She used metal type for all of the text, printed in a cool mossy green, and KF95 plates for the flower design, printed in cream. A big congratulations to Lindsay on her awesome first printing job and on her upcoming wedding!

[Photos by Lindsay Benson]

We were thrilled to see letterpress printing on the COVER of this month’s Real Simple, as well more letterpress inside the issue in a multi-spread page story about giving thanks. We got even more excited when we learned that our friends at Sesame Letterpress did the printing (with the help of Boxcar plates & the Boxcar Press). What great letterpress love! We asked Breck Hostetter to give us the scoop about printing for Real Simple, and this is what she told us:

“We used Boxcar’s K95 plates mounted on our Boxcar base (we’ve had this for so long that I don’t remember which one it is). We had a couple weeks to plan for the project and select the papers and ink color but the artwork came at the last minute. Real Simple provided us with the text and we used our own borders to design the cards. The magazine wanted a mix of cards with and without borders to consider when doing the photo shoot. So we printed each card with the border and text on a couple different papers and then we removed the plate from the base, cut the border off the plate and printed the plate with just the text on the papers. Thanks to the adhesive backed polymer plates, this was doable. We had to rely on Boxcar’s dependable 1 day turn around processing and UPS’s overnight shipping. We printed everything on our Golding Jobber. We have a Vandercook and Heidelberg but we do 95% of our jobs on the Golding and have just increased our fleet to include a couple Golding Pearls….”

Great work, Sesame Letterpress! The printing looks awesome – crisp, clear, deep, and gorgeous.