Letterpress Rainbow

Hillcrest Cottage is "Encourage with Words". The way I have chosen to accomplish this encouragement goal is through: hand lettering, calligraphy, and letterpress. 

Gone are my days of selling vintage treasures, sewing denim knapsacks, creating trolley signs, painting furniture, doing children's personalized name pictures, designing painted nursery room walls, and my "I do any art for money" odd job mindset.

It feels good to say "no" to art job offers which do not fit under my umbrella's focus. Because, being the jack-of-all art only led me to a dead end cul-de-sac. It is true that all my odd hustling was expedient for the moment, but  it was not effective for accomplishing my long-range goals.

When people think of me, I want them to think: hand lettering, calligraphy, and letterpress. I still do wedding calligraphy. (Yay!) And I am in the process of developing some very cool calligraphy fonts which I will reveal in another post.

Super excited about getting the new fonts in my head onto paper!

At long last, Hillcrest Cottage has printed 5 designs in a variety of colors to contrast with the incredibly fun envelope colors.

CALLIGRAPHY + LETTERPRESS = AWESOME

It's a letterpress rainbow!

Printing on vintage paper is also a product Hillcrest Cottage is excited to offer. It will combine my love for vintage paper with my letterpress designs. A camp meeting hymnal from the 1930's becomes an encouraging statement. The pages can be used in as many ways as can be imagined.

Psalm 31:15

A 1950's dictionary, yellowed paper, 1930's hymnal, and old poetry book pages have been selected for printing. These pages are the result of a very cool used book sale that I stumbled upon recently.

Philippians 3:14

And, I, too shall press on toward the goal of Christ Jesus, but also toward making my printing dream a reality. My goal is to begin very simply and add to the mix as I grow and develop my

own personal style. 

Emphasis added to "my own personal style" because Hillcrest Cottage is not about comparing myself to others; Hillcrest Cottage is about exploring my very unique and individual creative passions. This will be my artistic fingerprint which will be like no others'. It will be a discovery of who God has made me to be, and I am looking so forward to the journey.

It has been a long 9 months but I am thrilled to have birthed this new letterpress baby of mine.