Cow Cards

Recently I took on a project for Ashley from Monster Bites (which featured Tweedle Press on their cool blog a few months back). Ashley wanted to send me some old programs and flyers from one of her college's alumni events, and have me hand recycle them into new sheets of purple paper for note cards. I added some purple flecks from my own stash of scrap paper, and letterpress printed cows on the fronts. We came up with a joint message that states how the note cards were made, and they'll be handed out to other alums at an event. What a great idea! Talk about sustainable. And bovine-chic.

I love how my hand recycled paper takes a letterpress impression - it's so squishy and absorbent, and prints beautifully with my vegetable based inks.





Ever sine Paul came down to give Leonard a once over, he's been behaving rather well. My previous inking issues have been almost completely solved by adding roll bearers to the forme, and now I know how to adjust platen pressure myself. Leonard still has a problem with maintaining consistent pressure, but at least I can achieve the prints I want eventually. At some point I'll need to invest in a Vandercook, but this is working for now! Leonard is just big with the makeready. Oh well.

Happy New Year!

Whew...now that all the holiday craziness is over I welcome the calm of January. Time to reassess, re-motivate, recreate, and blog! First up, I'd like to announce my new blog Under The Wild Rose As Weasels, where "A city mouse with a country soul [me] attempts to mitigate the impact of 2 humans, 2 cats, 2 cars, and 2 big ass TVs by implementing realistic earth-friendly changes." It's been a blast so far.

As my first Tweedle Press offering for the new year, I've just made available these lovelies:


That's right, now you can get scrumptious letterpress printed stationery, on sheets that are recycled individually by hand from your own junk mail! Choose from unique designs to be personalized with your name. This is almost certainly the most eco-friendly, extraordinary way to reuse gift wrap and other scrap paper from your home.

I'm really happy with the designs I've come up with for the stationery


Tomorrow I plan to go into production on a few of the things that got pushed to the side during the holidays. I'll continue to release Personal Recycling products, and will be coming up with some spring-y designs soon too.

Pulp & Press Soundtrack: "Hooting & Hollering" (Wild Beasts).

Personal Recycling now available!

Just a quick entry to let all of my lovely blog readers know that Personal Recycling is now available from Tweedle Press. What exactly, you might ask, is this service? You can read the full explanation on my website, but in brief:

When you send your junk mail, used office paper, crumpled gift wrap, and paper packaging off to a commercial recycler, a lot of energy and water are used sometimes along with bleach and other chemicals to make it usable again. If you instead send your materials to Tweedle Press, I will personally make something beautiful (without the use of any nasty stuff) for you to use again. It's true that I use a small amount of electricity for my blender and one big bucket of water, but everything beyond that is entirely human-powered.

Currently I've only got Plain Sheets priced and available for purchase, but very soon you'll be able to get custom letterpress printed good on your personally recycled sheets as well. Just in time for you to send me all the used gift wrap you're about to collect!

Pulp & Press Soundtrack 12/17/09: "Night Time" (The xx).