PRINT SALE!

Hello last minute shoppers and procrastinators!
If you ever admired one of our prints, here is a chance to get one for 50% off. We are feeling the holiday spirit and decided to reward those of you who took their time shopping this year. This offer is only good until December 21st so take advantage!
Happy Holidays from Byvik Ink!

Holiday giveaway with Bark n Knit

Hello there! We are having a giveaway! Okay, really my sister is handling the entries, but we are providing the prizes. My sister, an avid knitter, dog-lover and mom to almost two runs the very popular blog BarknKnit. To win a set of our Partridge in a Pear Tree cards or a mixed set of our holiday gift tags visit her blog and see the many ways you can enter.

Hope you are all having fun shopping for gifts and decorating for the holidays. Have a great season and thank you, Natalie, for partnering—if partnering means being in charge of—with us on this giveaway!

Flower Prints {letterpress}

We printed our Summer Garden Show prints this past weekend. We did an edition on recycled paper but decided to print them on the softer cotton and we are so happy with the results. Picking the colors to use is always the hardest part for me - so many options. I guess that's why we printed two versions. I like them both, but the orange one will go perfectly in our kitchen - plus, I like the way the orange and green inks mix to make a brown that matches our RIBBA frame from IKEA. These prints will be for sale in our shop just in time for the holidays! Have a great weekend!

Type Drawer Shelf {letterpress}

My husband and I went to the L.A. Printers Fair at the International Printing Museum in Carson, CA a few weeks ago. It was so much fun looking at all letterpress printed goodies, meeting other printers, and drooling over the old platen presses and paper cutters. There was wood type and metal type galore, and anything else letterpress you can think of. We picked up a type drawer for $5 thinking we could use if for something - not type, since we mostly use photo-polymer plates for our printing. I power-washed the drawer with our hose and let it dry in the sun completely. Then I sprayed it with multiple coats of clear semi-gloss spray paint, added some picture hangers to the back and hung it toddler-high for hours of entertainment for our little guy. I can't help but smile every time I pass it. I also can't help trying to find more goodies to stuff into the little spaces. Too much cuteness all around!  -Happy weekend!

Football Wedding {letterpress}

Football season is here again and I thought it would be a great time to show off our Football Wedding Invitation. It is done just like our Baseball one - folded with a die-cut shape on the front flap so all you see is a football at first. When you open the card, it is pure elegance - no smelly sports to be found! I wish my fantasy football team performed as elegantly this week. Oh, well, that's what I get for sleeping through the draft this year.

If you love this invitation, check back at our etsy shop soon - we will be adding more wedding packages to our shop shortly.

Go Chargers!

Big Wave Wedding {letterpress}

We designed and printed these Big Wave wedding invitations for a wonderful couple recently. Angie and Costas were absolute dream clients - easy to please, quick with their decisions and prompt with their wording, proofing and payments. Did I mention how nice they were?  We printed the main invitation on the double thick 100% reclaimed cotton Crane's Lettra in Fluorescence White. The deep impression we got with this design was awesome. I think this is the design we would use if we could do our wedding invitations over again. We wish Angie and Costas the best on their upcoming wedding. Mahalo for being the best clients ever!

Only one month until Mother's Day!

We printed a new Mother's Day card a few weeks ago. I was working on a wedding invitation with this daisy and got inspired. I really love how the green and yellow turned out. The little accent on the back is actually an extension of the daisy on the front. This design lets us print two cards per full sheet of paper and not waste any paper when we cut them in half. I love being able to get a bleed without waste! (A bleed is when a design runs off the page.) Don't forget your mom this year! Or in my case, I shouldn't forget my "mom-friends" and sisters. Thirty days and counting!

Put a bird on it! {letterpress}

Here are some new bird cards we printed recently. They are both in the more petite A1 or 4-Bar size (3.5 x 5 inches.) They are printed on thick 100% reclaimed cotton paper. We got a great impression on these cards - nice and deep. I just love how the highlight on the balloon turned out! For the "put a bird on it" reference, see this hilarious video of Portlandia.

Butterfly Stationery {letterpress}

We printed these note cards for our good friend, Teresanne, from Teresanne Creative Studio. Her logo is a beautiful, graphic butterfly that we printed in blue on 100% reclaimed cotton paper. We paired them with faded blue envelopes. I just hope she is not too stingy with them. Set them free!

Child's Play {letterpress}

This poster, letterpress printed by Studio on Fire out of Minneapolis, is absolutely precious. It was a collaboration between a father and son. It was hand drawn by the son who is six years old! It was then rearranged on the computer and letterpress printed to be the work of art you see above. I never tire of checking on this letterpress studio's blog called Beast Pieces. Studio on Fire is hot!

Nena Baby Shower Print {letterpress}

We printed these baby shower invitation/prints for our friend, Gloria. She created a piece of art that we could print as her invitations, but could also be framed as a print and fit perfectly in an IKEA RIBBA square frame. I love the retro illustration of the girl she came up with! I designed the rest of the invitation far enough down so it could be cropped out in a square frame or fit in a 5x7 frame if you wanted to keep the type. They were printed on double-thick 220# Crane's Lettra reclaimed cotton paper. We also printed extra of the pink plate and I cut them into cupcake toppers. The shower was just lovely. See my friend Ani's blog to see way better pictures and learn all about the food at this event. Ani is a photographer, dog lover and food expert - you will not be disappointed.
Now all we need is for little Nena to show up - she's already late!

Bridal Shower Invitation {letterpress}

This is a bridal shower invitation we printed for Alchemy Fine Events and Invitations. The deep purple and golden yellow printed beautifully on the double thick Crane's Lettra cotton paper. I wish we could print on that paper all day! Have a nice one.

Hello Birds {letterpress}

We reprinted our bird cards! We had run out and we weren't sure whether to reprint or not - then we got a wholesale order for these cards. Time to get the press running! We printed them in a smaller 4Bar size (3.5' x 5') because that size is our new obsession. It seems cuter and sweeter. Just enough room for a few choice words. We kept the colors close to the originals but tweaked the pink to Pantone 205 - the closest match to honeysuckle, which you should all know was voted the color of the year for 2011 by Pantone! Our birds not only pop, but they are hip too.

Bridal Show Invitation {Letterpress}

Here is a job we printed designed by Vanessa from Alchemy Fine Events & Invitations. It is for an upcoming bridal show put on at the US Grant Hotel in San Diego. It was a double-sided, 2-color job on the 220# Crane's Lettra. Crane's recently lowered their prices on the extra thick Lettra a whopping 26%. It's still pricey but much better. It prints like a dream.

Automatic Business Cards {letterpress}

These business cards were printed on French Paper Speckeltone Black 140# stock. We used silver ink and blind impression. I must say I wasn't sure how the silver would print on the dark paper, but I was happy with the result. It's not a super shiny silver because they paper is not coated stock, but it looks like galvanized steel in the larger areas, which I love.

Automatic Media is a new company by the founder of Automatic Skateboarding Magazine. "The Mig" is also our neighbor!