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Author Archives: Alexia
About Page Live on Etsy
Months after Etsy released the option to add an About page to shops, I have finally gotten mine done! I know, I know. It shouldn’t have taken me so long. But I’ll use the excuse that I just had so … Continue reading
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Tagged About Page, Alexia Rostow, Artist's Statement, Etsy, letterpress, porcuprints, printmaking
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Porcuprints Spring Craft Fair Schedule
April and May have turned into a couple of VERY busy months for Porcuprints! I will be attending some great craft shows here in Portland over the next two months, so come on out and support your local artists! PORCUPRINTS’ … Continue reading
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Tagged artists creating a better world, charity event, craft fair, crafty underdog, crafty wonderland, crafty wonderland super colossl spring sale, lake oswego, lakewood center for the arts, local artists, mcmenamin's, mcmenamin's mission theater, oregon convention center, porcuprints, spring schedule
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Elk Notes
In my last post I mentioned that I had a new notepad design coming up. Well, here it is! The image on the cover is from an antique letterpress block I purchased on Ebay. The block is a zinc plate … Continue reading
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Tagged elk, Etsy, letterpress, notepad, notes, teal blue, wedding gift, wedding invitations
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Letterpress Notepads
Hello all! I want to share with you another one of my letterpress adventures I have had over the last few weeks. I found a box of scrap cover stock left over from someone’s die-cutting project. These pieces were a … Continue reading
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Tagged cover stock, die cutting, fuchsia, helen reddy, I am woman hear me roar, letterpres, metallic gold, notebook, notepad, pi, pie, scraps, woman
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Baby Got Letterpress!
I have been embarking on a lot of “firsts” recently, and last week was no exception. I assembled and printed my first two color letterpress broadside. It all began with a silly parody poem, and ended up being a fabulously … Continue reading
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Tagged Baby Got Back, Baby Got Letterpress, broadside, cranes lettra, letterpress, metal type, parody, poster, wood type
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Happy Pi Day!
Happy Pi Day Everyone! It’s March 14th (i.e. 3/14) and I have just the thing for your geeky loved ones. A Pi letterpress notepad, perfect for writing down those pie recipes, mathematical equations, or anything else you might need to … Continue reading
My First Foray into Custom Business Cards
This February has been full of firsts, not the least of which was my first set of custom letterpress business cards. I made them for my sweet and wonderful friend Jina. This simple project turned out to be much more … Continue reading
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Tagged business cards, custom, custom letterpress business cards, Jina, letterpress, owl, printing press, printing problems
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C&P Press Alterations
I finally took some pictures of the alterations that Doug and I made to the C&P. These changes were needed in order to slow the press down and make it a bit safer. First, we replaced the large pulley on … Continue reading
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Tagged C&P, e stop, emergency, motor, printing press, pulley
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Homemade Boxcar Base
This past weekend Doug finished making me a couple of aluminum bases for deep relief photopolymer plates! He milled down the aluminum to .853″ (+/- .0005″!). I never realized how difficult it would be to get such an exact tolerance … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum, boxcar base, laser-engrave, milling machine, photopoly, photopolymer
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Girls on Presses
I spent today pulling apart the motor on my C&P. Well, Doug was the brains of the operation, but I added some much needed muscle. I want to slow the press down, so I need a new pulley for the … Continue reading
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Tagged C & P, Chandler & Price, letterpress, motor, printing, pulley, woman
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