Tuesday: Loving Letterpressed ~ Обичайки Напечатаното

I love books. I love old books. I love newspapers and letters. I love good fonts and nice handwriting. I love how the ink sticks to the paper in such beautiful union. It is like seeing the forever-after for a brief moment. 

The letterpress was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1439. And thank God he did it, because the evolution of mankind was going to be so different. Before the invention offset printing all was made by letterpress or by hand. But imagine it how difficult was to hand-paint 300 art posters... or even 100 or 50 of them. 

Now almost in every home we can find a personal printing machine. This is great and I can't imagine my life without one of those but I still love the letterperessed look.One of my wishes is to find one of these press machines, the smaller versions of course and learn to use it. Just for the real fun of making something unique. Sadly they cost a little fortune, they are hard to find, they seem to be even harder to find in Europe, the weight is a real problem and the supplies are difficult to find.

Here I present you some letterpressed goodies from Etsy. I love the designs and the feel they have. Enjoy!

Обичам книги. Обичам стари книги. Обичам вестници и писма. Обичам качествени шрифтове и хубав почерк. Обичам как мастилото залепва за хартията сливайки се красиво с нея. Все едно можеш да погледнеш във вечността за кратък момент.

Печатарската преса е измисляна от Йоханес Гутенберг около 1439 година. И слава на Бога, че е така, инак еволюцията на човечеството щеше да е толкова различна. Преди измислянето на офсетовият печат всичко се е правилона печатарските преси или на ръка. Но представете си колко трудно е било да изрисуваш 300 арт плаката... а дори 100 или 50 от тях.

Сега почти във всеки дом има персонална принтираща машина. Това е страхотно и азне мога да си представя животами без някоя от тях, но все още обичам вида на напечатаното. Едно от моите желания е да намеря една такава преса, някой от по-малките модели и да се науча да я използвам. Само заради удоволствието да направя нещо уникално. За жалост те струват едно малко състояние, трудниса занамиране, а още по-трудно е в Европа, теглото им е голям проблем и материалите също са апокрифни.

Тук ви представям няколко напечатани работки от Etsy. Много ми допада дизайна им и усещането, което носят. Наслаждавайте се! 

Saturday: Lovely paper and Origamic Architecture ~ Красива хартия и архитектурно оригами.

I confess freely that I go crazy when I enter a paper store. This is hereditary from my father (I love you, Dad!) and combined with my love for nice design (Thank you, Mum!!!) I tend to spend little fortune in those stores. Today I will write about paper. Something that we find so common that we actually miss how nice it can be when it is made with style. In the world of electronic devices it seems useless to give to the paper so much importance.

The first time that I saw Cromatico paper Stationery I fell in love with it. The paper colours were so vivid and bright, but nicely selected. The feeling they give was luxurious. It was no surprise to me that so was their price: a small envelope was more than 1 Euro, a big one nearly 2. The high end stationery range is from 13 translucent, mass-dyed colours. Here are some examples of lovely paper. This is their site: http://www.thibierge-comar.com.

Said that I shall point that because of my search in internet where to find this paper cheaper, I found by incident these cards. Named Origamic Architecture or Kirigami, made with Cromatico paper. They are so well done and so architectural. So I couldn't resist not to share them here. You can visit his Flicker gallery here. He is genius of multidimensional thinking. And when I think how the modelling classes in my university were so boring and awful, when there is so much to learn about dimensions and space trough simple piece of cardboard. 

St. Paul Cathedral in London

Tadj Mahal 

San Marco in Venice 

Have a nice weekend!!! :")

Tuesday: Spring! Letters, cards and butterflies! ~ Пролет! Писма, картички и пеперуди!

Happy Spring people!!! 

The mood and aroma is in the air. Although here there is no winter season at all, I mean no cold, no snow and no beautiful white mountains, it is noticeable that the weather is getting warmer. The trees are greener, some of them with first flowers. the sun is really warming and invites to go outside. The birds are going  crazy in the mornings and the first insects are showing. 

Talking about insects...Is there a person in the world who doesn't love butterflies? I surely do. Along with my all time favourite dragonflies. So when I got a wonderful letter with some hand-drawn butterflies I got my muse and created these cards. I hope that you like them.

The letter... :")

...and the cards I made. The figures are cut by hand with normal cutter. It took me quite some time... the cardboard is really thick.

And I am still looking for home for the cards in this post. If somebody wants them they are still free and come with four themed gift tags. 

Photos: me

Sunday: Presents, anybody wants some? Or a Giveaway?

Who doesn't love presents? 

I surely do! I love to make presents too! and wrap them nicely!!! And this is the main reason to participate in this nice and funny blog game in which you make something special for five people. I took the pledge some time ago at Plami's blog  Now is the time to actually do something about it. 

So I will give presents! Handmade especially by me. If anybody wants to participate, the only thing is that you need to leave a comment here below this post.The only rule is to go on later and give presents. But anyway the people that I need are five and because I doubt my ability to gather them if somebody want something small and made by me, feel free to participate.

This is not a Giveaway, but if no one shows up, I will host one here. Here I present to you some photos of things I made these 2 days. There are some mt tape cards I made which will go to the Giveaway. Have fun!!!

set of four cards on Canson Cardboard in Gris Ciel colour made with washi tape from Japan

The Blue ones

The Red ones

A small origami box, a handmade card on metallic green paper for my beloved one. Green and purple washi tape again.

A different "мартеница" made on Canson 300 grm Aquarell Board with Winsor & Newton Artist Ink.  

That's it. 

photos and creations: me