Announcement Postcard

I turned one of the Shimmer Studio designs into an announcement postcard! This postcard features the jasmine flowers design on the front and the client's information on the back. The card was letterpress printed with two colors on the front and one color on the back — the ink colors are turquoise and teal. It is a standard postcard size and can be sent at the USPS postcard rate.

To celebrate the custom project Shimmer Studio is going to offer a summer postcard sale! Choose any Shimmer Studio design for the front of the postcard and I'll customize the front and the back. Contact me for special pricing. I'm going to offer the sale price through September.

Thanks for taking a peek at the new project! Contact: info@shimmer-studio.com

hot off the press

Here's a little peek at three brand new letterpress cards for 2009. All the cards are fold overs and include envelopes.

The above card is gold ink printed on turquoise cardstock.

This is the newest card design and I call it "My Melancholy Butterfly" because she is thinking "Le Sigh." Teal ink on turquoise cardstock.

This last card is named "Cherry Glow" and features pink and gold ink. It really pops!

color studies

Another method to my madness is how I do color studies. I like to do my color studies by flipping through magazines and pulling out the colors I like and then I glue them in a hodge podge mess and throw them in a sketch book. It looks like controlled chaos but I like doing them this way because I can open a few pages and look at a lot of my personal color picks and see how they interact together at a glance. I do need to focus on doing some more specific color boards right now, specifically a fall color board filled with oranges and reds. I tend toward the cool side so I am going to conciously focus on warm tones. The second color study spread is the one I used for the current Shimmer Studio line of stationery.

Welcome home!

My Heidelberg Windmill arrived on the scene this AM and that is it outside the Ravenswood building. It seemed to stop spritzing just long enough to move this in without having to worry about the rain. Yay! Below are some photos of how the studio is coming along. I still have some more things to get over there and some major organizing to do. The C+P is Cindy's press — don't they look great together. Her press is beautiful. I can't wait for both of them to be up and running.

Ravenswood — here we come

Pics of the new space on Ravenswood. It's empty but we will be working to start filling it up this weekend and next week. Cindy's press is moving in Sunday and my press is moving in Monday. My splat flat studio is almost packed up and ready to go. I'm so close but I've run out of boxes and I have to take the bookcases and one more table apart so we can carry them down two flights of stairs. My back is aching just thinking about tomorrow.

a little belated studio tour

The above pics are of my studio at The Splat Flats. I totally enjoyed my time there and I will miss my cute little studio. But it is time to pack it up and move to Ravenswood and get the letterpress going and the paper flying.


The new digs are at 3729 N. Ravenswood Ave., Suite 135A. I will try to do a better job of posting the move and the new space.

"Lotus Glow" limited edition print

I have a new limited edition print titled "Lotus Glow" available in the etsy shoppe. It is a four color letterpress print and there are 75 in this edition. This was the first print with more than two colors that I have ever done. I am really excited about how it turned out and to the great responses I have received.

And all the "Mandala" limited edition prints are up in the etsy shoppe as well. They are available as singles or as sets of three or six prints.