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Posted on October 30, 2017October 12, 2024

Italian Villa Advent Calendar: Maralyn Crosetto

Advent calendar detail

 

In 2010, Maralyn Crosetto of Waterland Press and Maura Shapley and Jack LeNoir of Day Moon Press embarked on a joint venture to produce Maralyn Crosetto’s Italian Villa Advent Calendar. The first copies were completed in March, 2011.  Continue reading “Italian Villa Advent Calendar: Maralyn Crosetto”

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Had these as a little die cutting demo at the Wayz Had these as a little die cutting demo at the Wayzgoose last week but there’s a small stack leftover so I finished them out for the Etsy store! Related thoughts and style to some other stuff I’ve done. All part of, hmm, studies for a larger project I’ve been percolating on for a while. Anyway if you’d like the tooth that came out along with the little print there’s a button for that :)

Set in Caslon 471.

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Finishing up last details on new stuff for @tacoma Finishing up last details on new stuff for @tacomawayzgoose tomorrow! Including a little demo with the tiniest die cut in the tiny press 🦷✨

So so excited to see all you printers & print enthusiasts!!

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A block of my uncle’s! He printed a couple copie A block of my uncle’s! He printed a couple copies for friends and family years ago. I asked if I could print more for the shop and he said yes; I asked if I could print them in jolly rancher colors and he said, I said…….you could……print them…….. which was not a no :))

Arches 88, 14.75 inches square

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Doing my dang best to finish some new things for @ Doing my dang best to finish some new things for @tacomaisforlovers this Sunday (27th)! This lizard is a wood block my grandmother carved something like 30 years ago, pre-arthritis. Love his funny little eyes.

The block was made for some kind of fabric printing—we haven’t found any samples of it to know what kind for sure—but anyway it isn’t particularly planed or level. I fixed what I could in the bed but even then there’s one toe that needs some touching up by hand. Pretty simple on the type form but I took some extra time with it, feeling picky about decorative pieces that go best together.

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Lovely marigold yellow ink for @henrymandellstudio Lovely marigold yellow ink for @henrymandellstudio ! 

I always test the QR code to make sure it reads in color and, pleasant surprise, I found no issues with this one on a new-ish phone or ancient iPad.

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Furthering my Impramatur for Poetry Purposes agend Furthering my Impramatur for Poetry Purposes agenda :)

(I found a couple different versions of punctuation for this excerpt, but the recipient had if I recall correctly first read the poem in a book they found in a used bookstore, and provided a transcription from that copy.)

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Design by @fruitsuper for @kingcountylibrary 💙🤍 such a very clean & satisfying design for relief

The vacuum, my bestie, my buddy 😆 I suppose I could’ve backtrimmed all 4.5m sheets on all sides but I’m pretty sure that still would’ve taken longer than pulling out the vacuum between every pass.
Last minute restock again for the final sale of my Last minute restock again for the final sale of my season! I’ll be @thegrocerystudios from 2-5 pm this Saturday & Sunday, along with a bunch of other artists there AND @freshmochiart just across the street!

These little mini reloadable journals have been doing well which is great since they’re very fun to make :) I get to utilize all sorts of cloth & paper scraps & experiment with making one of a kind patterns. The books are sized so you can make your own reloads really easily at home—one signature is just 1 piece of 8.5x11 printer paper cut in quarters, 2 signatures/book, easy 32-page refresh. You don’t even really need to sew the signatures, even though I do; loose leaf they’ll stay in the cords just fine.
Only other printers would even know to ask for thi Only other printers would even know to ask for this and that’s the best thing about working with other printers :D All credit to @pipletterpress for hand-holding me through the color palette, and editing the details rendering this beautiful building they’re moving into. Can’t wait to see the space on Friday!!

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Must reprint QUICK in time for sale @ the Mt Baker Must reprint QUICK in time for sale @ the Mt Baker Community Club this Saturday 🎉

My uncle Brian did the original linoleum block of these gremlin Santas and he is so funny about it. Mildly surprised when I tell him I am reprinting yet again. Of COURSE I am, they catch the eye everywhere I take them.

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WHAT a cool weekend at Wayzgoose 2024 @hamiltonwoo WHAT a cool weekend at Wayzgoose 2024 @hamiltonwoodtype 💚💜 It was my first time attending and literally everyone I met was so welcoming, so kind, so interesting & interested in other people’s work and experiences, so excited to teach & learn & exchange knowledge. I didn’t take any GOOD pictures there, sorry, I just sort of swung my phone around wildly to show my parents & friends at home how cool the museum is and how much stuff is happening there, but here is only a sample of all the rad printed matter I got to bring home ✨

Thank you to @pipletterpress & LEAD for the opportunity to speak as a Print Futures rep, and the guidance that helped me make a presentation I can be proud of! Thank you to @gabbguy & @mintliu.svg for doing it beside me & making it easy to stand up there on the stage.

Thank you to all the Wayzgoose volunteers & organizers!! It was all very bird above the waterline from where I was standing but I know it was much harder than you made it look. & thank you to every speaker who brought their process to share—I am BUZZING with ideas, too many to ever do all of them, but maybe by next year I will have done some & perhaps 🤞 will see some of you there again & we can show each other what new ideas we’ve tried

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@desertbusforhope starts today! 🎉🎉 I shipped @desertbusforhope starts today! 🎉🎉 I shipped off a prize this year which will be up for silent auction starting tomorrow, Saturday the 9th, around 6 pm PST 🎉🎉

Went for a different format of card deck this time—hanafuda is a Japanese deck structure where there are no pips or values printed on the card faces, only illustrations. Classic Hanafuda decks have suits themed on flowers and plants, in 12 suits of 4 cards each. I've done a little re-design themed around Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, with each of the 12 suits oriented around materials, animals, or items in the game.

each card is so small—about 1 3/8 inch by 2 1/8—and current ones are this thick chip with laminated faces and some kind of slick coated paper over the back? Anyway mine are still chunky but by being two sheets of cross-laminated 120# cover. back sides with the Sheikah Eye printed from linoleum reduction; faces with hand-drawn lineart and little linocuts for each color.

i very much like the color palate that came out of it; since the pen drawings went down before colors i printed the grey first to find the bottom end of the value range, bookended it with the yellow, and filled in the middle. my favorite color of the bunch turns out to be the soft brown, or maybe the “gold” with no metallic in it.

and if you’re asking yourself, hey, even with overage it’s only like 5 copies of each card to get one perfect deck, why not hand color the cards? i also asked this. i tried some things and unfortunately did not like the texture at all. Only 88 little lino cuts would do for my brain worms.

anyway! check out the stream, check out the many many cool prizes up this year, & donate towards Child's Play :)

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RESPECT YOUR DEVICES AS THEY RESPECT YOU. Petting RESPECT YOUR DEVICES AS THEY RESPECT YOU.

Petting the cat is a two-handed operation, she is sure, and she is correct. A2, 120# Mohawk hemp. Set in Standard Condensed, Venus Extended, and Anzeigen Grotesk. On Etsy at daymoonpress.

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There nothing to compare to for scale in the final There nothing to compare to for scale in the final piece but I think it’s important that you all know this is a real cat and she’s 16 pounds

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Hang tags & business cards for beautiful fabric ar Hang tags & business cards for beautiful fabric arts from @foodshelterclothing in clean, classic Goudy :)

Makes me think about the old sheepskin my sister & I slept on as babies. They’re in the cedar chest now for safekeeping, still so soft and comforting.
Always a good time to play with the @pipletterpres Always a good time to play with the @pipletterpress CMYK color stylings ✨ This particular good time was months ago, I’m very behind on offloading my wip recordings, but that’s not the point! The point is, thanks to everyone who supports Partners in Print, and thanks to PiP for supporting printing & printers!!

I’m additionally a big sucker for any color you can describe like a food. Wasabi. Lavender. Edible secondaries. PiP said be free with the design and I said great I would like to be several incompatible flavors of ice cream 💚💜 Chonks of color in wood type and just a little embellishment in lead.

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