First wedding show of 2011!

Ah, winter. Your arrival is marked by sometimes beautiful (mostly gray and muddy) snow, an onslaught of Etsy shops we like to promote to you on our Facebook page for your holiday shopping (it's fun because it's like shopping without spending any money!) and our participation in a wedding show or two!

This year, the first will be the "Love at Breathtaking Heights" show in the Sears Tower (ok, ok! Willis Tower) at the Metropolitan Club on January 7th starting at 5:30pm. This is a tre chic show, so put your fancy pants on for this one:

We will be there with our friend Nina from Tweedle Press to debut our hybrid flat printed/letterpress printed style we've been cooking up. It'll be worth the visit!
See you there!

Red and Black Invitations

Check up the upper right hand corner of this collage created by Heather Parker for the Bradley/Holmes wedding from earlier this year...it's the red and black invite with wax seal we did for them. Thanks for including us, Heather!


Also featured are flowers by Wishing Well Florists, make-up by Briette Madrid, hair by Theodora Bourikas, and the Tower Club.

Invitations Inspire Crafty Presents

It's always nice to hear from our clients that their family and friends loved the invitations we did for them, but sometimes we're blown away by how much they seem to like them. Take Mary Ann and Darel's wedding for example. They had friends actually make them gifts out of our invitations!

First, the invitation that inspired the gifts.....


Here is a custom cake topper their friend Ty made for them....


And here are a couple of photos of a vase made from the invitation and their engagement picture....

Bright Lights, City Wedding

Check out the great photos by Edyta Szyszlo Photography from Kristen and Gene's wedding. You'll see a sneak peak of our "Chicago Theater" invitations- a visual focal point from the Wit Hotel where the wedding was. Love it when it all comes together!


It was nice to have an excuse to go downtown so we could take some pictures to use as inspiration for the invitation design.

The Eagle has landed!

It's official! We've had our first card spotting at Target!
There was a little bit of a delay with stocking the shelves (the Target elves were busy with holiday stuff I guess), but we can now OFFICIALLY say our Spilled Ink Press logo has landed at at a Target store near you!!

If you see these cards in the "Just for Laughs" section with other Recycled Paper Greetings cards, follow these instructions:
1. Pick it up.
2. Read it.
3. Throw your head back and laugh very loudly, vigorously enough that you cause a scene.
4. Put it into your cart and repeat.

inside: ...just be sure to save some cash for cake and ice cream.
Happy Birthday

inside: Consider these shots "cupcakes" and the rest of the bar your class.
Have another cupcake.
Happy Birthday

inside: Before your taste in booze gets more expensive.
Happy Birthday

Celebrate Early. Celebrate Often.

Just a few weeks removed from the last election, I thought we were done with political commercials on TV. I was wrong. Ads for the mayoral election have already started. It seems like it's always voting season in Chicago, but of course we can find a little time to fit in the Christmas season too. Sure, we're used to voting early and often, but we can also celebrate early and often. And what better way to celebrate the holidays in Chicago than with our Christmas cards that poke fun at the city's questionable political history.

Card inside text:


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And we're working on ideas for our 2010 Christmas card... no one is safe.... stay tuned!

Check it

Whoa... hello blog. How the heck haveya been? Last time we spoke it was... lets see... August? No? Really? Come on.
--gulp-- Ok. Well- the good news is we've been very very busy at Spilled Ink Press headquarters.
We did some invitations... or 2... or 100... we've been banging out greeting cards like we own the joint. It's good times, good times.

To prove it, someone in the "real" media actually took note of it. Our friend Sarah Terez-Rosenblum of Sun Times blog fame, "Our Town" asked us a few questions and we very happily answered.
Here it is folks.
Enjoy!

PS- Sarah is also an excellent writing instructor at StoryStudio. The winter classes are up on the block folks, get em' while they're hot.