Niche- Market Bazaar December 2014

Been a very quiet year for markets this year but this doesn't mean I haven't been doing anything.

To start with I have moved my  from my front bedroom at home to a proper workshop in Latrobe where I can now have all my big printing machines, type and an enormous guillotine, it is nice to have a space for everything. 

Anyway I am very excited to say that I will be having a stall at this years Christmas 

Niche- Market Bazaar on the 6th of December at the Albert Hall in Launceston,Tasmania

 I hope to see lots of familiar faces and  meet some new ones and I am looking forward to sharing all my new Christmas designs with everyone, I have really missed the markets and I am thrilled to be back at Niche this festive season  and I hope to see you there

Narelle xx

Ruby Victoria Letterpress has a new website

That's right!  after what seems like forever I have finally gotten around to setting up a 

Ruby Victoria website where you can see what I have to offer and where you buy direct

I will have lots of new products posted up on there for sale as well as some old favorites 

I will also be offering Custom Birthday and wedding stationery so if anyone would like to talk to me about some lovely stationery please feel free to leave me a message   :) weeee!! so excited 

 just follow the link and it will take you to my site 

www.rubyvictorialetterpress.com

It still is in the process of being set up so please excuse any teething problems but if you would like to subscribe to keep posted on what new stuff happens I would be ever so pleased and comment are most welcome too  

I hope to see you all there :)

 Narelle

Wedding Expo this weekend

I am very excited to announce that we will be having a display at this weekends Weddings at The Albert Expo in Launceston yay!
I will have a selection of my linocut letterpress decorative papers for wedding stationery as well as gift tags lovely floral garlands and greeting cards all printed on one of our vintage letterpress machines.

It has been a while since I have attended any major event or markets since moving back to the North West Coast so I am really looking forward to meet lots of new people and future clients :)
So if you are planning a wedding  or know of someone that is that might like to come along and take a look at what is on offer to make your special day magical come along and say hi :)

Sharing is fun :)

Though it would share some more photos of my gift tags we because they are just such pretty colours and they make me happy hope they make you feel happy too :)

Ruby Victoria on Facebook

Due to my disgraceful lack of activity on my blog here, I would like to invite you to join my Facebook page where you can see what I am up to in the studio and speak to me directly if you would like to :)

Just follow the link and come say hi

Narelle 

Ruby Victoria Letterpress on Facebook

Christmas Cheer offer

To Celebrate the opening of my new Handmade online store I would like to offer
For every $20 you spend at either of my stores, I will throw in a pack of  
letterpress Christmas gift tags like the ones in the photo
this offer is for both my Handmade.com.au and etsy store
Valid till this coming Sunday 10:30 pm Eastern standard time

https://www.hand-made.com.au/rubyvictoria
https://www.etsy.com/au/shop/rubyvictoria

Please drop in to my stores and take alook at what I have to offer lots of lovely bright colours to decorate your presents and home :)

Narelle x

Gift tags and greeting cards by Ruby Victoria

Spent yesterday going through my stock and decided to re-photograph everything here is a collecting of some of my work available on my etsy store, Madeit store and for wholesale to retail store in Australia and Internationally.

If you are a retailer or if you know of one  that might like to take a look at my work please feel free to share my details with them :)

Narelle X

100mm  Linocut/ letterpress coaster gift tags

C6 linocut/letterpress greeting cards

POP UP Launceston

As Part of the Annual Junction Arts Festival in Launceston,Pop Up! Launceston is a community driven arts initiative that utilises one of the many vacant shops in Launceston's CBD... Run as a co-operative, artists 'pop up' for events, exhibitions and artists garage sales...

 

Christmas wholesale

Christmas is fast approaching and I would love to hear from any lovely gift shops, florists, bookshops ect. that maybe interested in stocking Ruby Victoria this Christmas season.

 If you are a business owner or know someone that you think might like my work please feel free to contact me or pass on my details  on and i will be happy to forward a current wholesale list

I can be contacted via email rubyvictorialetterpress@gmail.com 

or Facebook 

at https://www.facebook.com/rubyvictorialetterpress

BIG PRINT SALE on Facebook

Hi everyone 

I just wanted to let you all know that I am having a big clean out in the studio and have decided to sell all my prints at a rediculiously cheap price to make room in my paper draws for new work.

All you need to do is follow the link to my personal Facebook page take alook at the prints and if you would like to purchase any of them send me a private message and we can workout the finer details of getting you lovely price of origional art work to you asap 

 

the prints will be wedged between two pieces of 310 gsm card and posted in a post pack safe and secure

all prints shown here are printed on 100% cotton rag paper, with oil

based printing ink, meaning they are colour fast if displayed out of direct sunlight 

paper size for all of these prints are 150 x 210 mm they fit perfectly in an 8x10 inch Ikea frame or something similar so no expensive trips to the picture framers :) 

If you are interested please follow the link to my face book page and take a look ,and if you feel like it please follow my Ruby Victoria letterpress fan page  on Facebook

 I would really like that 

Narelle x

Made With Love This weekend

This Saturday I will be loading up the car  hitching on the caravan and making the trip to Wynyard for The Made with Love Market

Butterfly for Jane

Butterfly linocut printed on coaster card

finished linocut ready to be printed

I am so please with how this linocut turned out I just had to whack it on the press and print something with it before it is posted off to a lovely friend of mine down in Hobart

Narelle x

new stuff and a wedding

 This week is was very lucky to become the owner of this possibly very old screenprinting unit it was given to me by and old friend and printing colleague its pretty neat and I have been wanting one of these for ages but I hadn't been able to find one, it was in pretty messy condition ink caked all over it but after a bit of TLC it has come up really nice I just need to replace the actual silk screen this week as the original mess was totally knackered, the really cool think about this unit is that it comes with it very own carry case with compartments for ink , a squeegee and anything else you might need for a print run :)

 

 I also received along with the printing unit some never used letterpress type and some unopened foil for my foiling unit so I cant wait to start playing with that soon. 

 

 This past week has also seen me printing wedding stationery and a lovely big order of gift tags destined for 

Campbell& Bradley Florists in Greenslopes Queensland so I have been kept pretty busy :) 

ready to be posted off to Campbell & Bradley Florists QLD

Off to Qld this week :)

 Lastly here is the wedding stationery that I have just finished for the lovely Whitney and her fiance Stephen.

wedding stationery with custom linocut stamp

 I have decided to include the custom linocut in the package as a special memento of their special day.

 The linocut is backed up onto a Tasmanian black wood  block great for display purposes :)

wedding stationery with custom linocut stamp

wedding invited and RSVP cards

Leftovers IV

finished Linocut prints

lino cut inked up and read to be printed

It's on again the Wingtip press leftovers mini print exchange and exhibition

 and this year I have finally gotten my act together and printed my very own mini print to send to Idaho to be included :) I am very excited as in return for my 14 prints that I send I will be sent in return 12 prints from 12 other artists

 I love getting this kind of mail :)

all dried and covered with protective acid free velum read for packing

all packed and ready to be posted to Idaho :)

The history of Leftovers:

Leftovers began in 2009 as a result of finding too many scraps of leftover printing papers jamming our flatfiles. We put out a call to artists to use those scraps to create an edition of prints no larger than 5" x 7" and receive a random dozen prints in 

return.  We have grown from an initial 60 participants to 155 in 2012.  Artists now produce 14 prints, receive 12 in return. Of the two remaining prints, one is used for exhibitions and the second is featured in a Silent Auction to raise funds for Hunger

 This popular portfolio has become international in scope - not only with international printmakers but with exhibitions in the US, Wales and New Zealand. This year's 2013 Leftovers IV portfolio has been invited to Australia!  They hope to continue the exhibition schedule to include Wharepuke Gallery in New Zealand and Swansea Print Workshop in Wales and welcome the opportunity for additional exhibitions so if you are a gallery and would like to support this then please follow the link below they will be very happy to hear from you

Relief.  Follow the Leftovers blog at: http://leftoversanyone.blogspot.com/