We love it when we get to letterpress cool things for Syracuse folks, so we were so excited to letterpress up these cards for the Everson Museum, our local art museum. They’re designed by the fabulous folks at Eric Mower & Associates, whose designers are just bright baubles of joy to work with. The cards are available for purchase via the Everson. Since, over the weekend, Boxcar Press & Syracuse finally got its first substantial snow fall (hooray!), it seemed the perfect time to post pictures of these letterpress holiday cards that make us feel all warm and cozy.

We love edge painting (by hand) our letterpress printing! Especially in really bright, vibrant colors. Once you start looking at enough edge painting pieces, paper just looks naked without its edges all gussied up in color. The design and color dreaming of this job comes from Pickett’s Press. Kate @ Pickett’s Press was sweet enough to send one her fabulous ribboned boxes too, so we can see how great a presentation she’s created for the notecards and stationery that we letterpress printed for her.

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.