Last sunday Hello!Lucky greeting Cards and I held a prize raffle for a 20 letterpress postcard pack. Thanks for all your love and retweets! I’ve collected all your names and held a good old random raffle.
How were the winners picked?
Tradition is throwing all names in a hat and pick one, but to be honest, that’s not how I roll my dice. Instead, I went to www.random.org and parsed your names into the list randomiser. As you can see, people who both twittered and reblogged doubled their chances by doing so. I simply hit the randomise button and first one on the list would become the winner of the pack.
So who won?
See pic below, first one up was applesforjonah! Congrats! Just send me your contact details by e-mail, and the 20 Letterpress greeting card pack will land on your doormat very soon!
To everyone else, thanks a lot for partaking! I’ll send some finely wapped long lasting good vibes your way.
What’s the story?
Hello!Lucky are a San Francisco based boutique printing house, specialising in gorgeous letterpressed greeting cards and customisable holiday cards. You can see several of my letterpress designs in the Hello!Lucky online store.
This year, Hello!Lucky asked several illustrators for a special holiday collection, and I feel honoured to be one of them. You can personalise the designs with your own text, multiple photos and personal holiday wishes! The special holiday card store has just gone online, you can have a look at my holiday designs and many others here!
(Photo by Edyta Szyzlo)
To celebrate, we have a special giveaway contest for you! We’ve got an collection of 20 assorted Hello!Lucky letterpressed greeting cards by Esther Aarts prize pack to raffle among you dudes and dudettes.
How to enter?
Spread the word about Hello!Lucky’s new Holiday Card collection by:
• Liking this post on Tumblr
• Reblogging and commenting on this post on Tumblr (bonus points!)
• OR by retweeting this post on Twitter! (You can use the share link below)
After you’ve done so, you’re entered in a drawing to win the 20 Letterpress Card pack from Hello!Lucky. You can enter till wednesday 18:00 Amsterdam time. If you won, I’ll let you know by mail/tweet/post pigeon! Good Luck!
Stand by for a Hello!Lucky Letterpress card give-away!
Hello!Lucky prints gorgeous letterpressed cards and adorable custom holiday photo cards. I had the honour to work with Hello!Lucky on many designs including their new range of custom holidays cards. The cards featured here are letterpressed on a vintage vandercook letterpress.
It was about time to pick up my favorite pastime again: Making marker doodles. This is part one of a series of a not yet known amount about cryptozoologistic gentlemen.
Mermen.
Mergentlemen, to be precise.
Map to Ghost Town. Want it as a t-shirt? Vote for it at Threadless.
“One idea for you, coming right up. Would you like some extra smarts on top of that, sir?”
On my Ipad, of course!
Nothing better than the latest technology to get the job done. Look at all my apps!
My favourite markers are an Edding 400, a Sharpie and a Copic Ciao. The white gouache is from Dr Martins and does a decent job covering up whatever needs to be covered up, and flows well from the brush.
I start with a rough drawing in cyan. When I’m happy with my rough, I go over it with said markers. The bleedproof white is then applied to take out white lines and shapes.
After I’m done, I scan the page. I adjust the hue to get rid of the blue sketch lines and adjust the levels slightly to obtain better contrast. Presto!
This marker doodle eventally became a bonafida Threadless T-shirt design!
This wordplay illustration came about after encountering the word “kvetching” (whinging), which is a rather strange and funny looking word to me. I couldn’t resist to merge it with a word I’m more familiar with, and this is the hand lettered hybrid result.
Now, how about drawing your woes away with your skvetchbook?
