Happy 79th Birthday!

That's right! Our Vandercook Press turned 79 years old last week. We had a surprise party for her, complete with birthday candles, a letterpress birthday card and cupcakes (thanks Mary). She's still running strong and in great shape! Happy Birthday ole girl!

Martha Stewart Weddings Feature

The new Martha Stewart Weddings issue is out and on the news stands! We're so excited to see Katherine and Jeff's wedding featured. We had the pleasure of designing their Save the Date, Invitation and Weekend Materials for this cute couple's celebration. See images from Martha's feature here. Enjoy!

Also, see the full list of the talented vendors we collaborated with on this amazing wedding here.

The Dieline

So pleased to see our work featured on the Die Line today. Read the full post here.

White Washing Wood

We love trying new things here at Sideshow. Our latest experiment; white washing wood for a invitation (we will share the full invite soon!). To achieve the affect we were looking for, the white washing turned out to be a 3 step process.

1.) We brushed on a thin coat of grey stain to blonde wood veener paper.

2.) We applied a watered down white paint over the top of the grey stained wood.

3.) We took to the sheets with a light grade of sand paper and spot sanded each piece.

The whole process was a nice reminder of how we love to experiment! The finished piece of white washed wood was letterpressed 1 color. We are thrilled with the out come.

Letter Perfect

We were thrilled to be included in Charleston Weddings article "Tips & Ideas: Letter Perfect".

Read the entire article here.

Calligraphy Map Invitations

A beautiful grey and yellow invitation from Melissa and Amy, the talented designers behind Atheneum Creative. We enjoyed being the printer on this job and bringing these thoughtful invitations to life.

From Melissa and Amy: Katy and Alex were look ing for a unique way to introduce and share their story—starting right with the invitation. Chicago is home to both the bride and groom; it’s where their relation ship began and it is where they will share their fist kiss as husband and wife. The city means so much and holds so many memories for them, what better way to tell their story than with a custom illustrated map of their personal Chicago land marks (such as their high rise apartment, the bench they got engaged on, the church and reception location, and many others).

The beautiful map illustration was done by Elizabeth Porcher Jones, stunning work as always.

The Goods for TheBadCharacter

Finally putting and end to the East Coast, West Coast beef, the ladies of Sideshow Press earned some street cred with our latest venture for the TheBadCharacter. The LA based design studio sought to combine offset printing with the accent of letterpress. What was born is one bad business card.

We're now offering letterpress printing to our fellow designers. TheBadCharacter business cards are just one of the many jobs we've been working on lately.