I took a letterpress workshop this past weekend at Porchlight Press to make holiday cards. I loved looking at all of the interesting equipment around the printshop, and it made me wish I could reproduce some of my own work as letterpress prints and cards.

These are photos I took of some of the things around the shop.

Examples of lead type

Examples of wood type

An assortment of images we could use in our card designs.

A beautiful Heidelberg Press (which we did not use).

My card design all inked up on the press as we were printing.

The finished Christmas card with hand drawn details added to the decorations using metallic gel pen.