Poppy now on Madeit.com.au

I'm in two minds about madeit.com.au

Essentially it's the Australian etsy, with far less features. It's a little harder to find out what you need to do to list an item, and you have to purchase credit just to be able to list. Nevertheless, I'm willing to give a new(ish) site a try.

I'd love to send you the link to the new Poppy Letterpress madeit store, but you know what, I have no idea how to find out what that is. I can only see it now when I login to my details and find it that way. If anyone does figure out how to find my store (without just searching for letterpress), do let me know!

New base, new products

So it's been a busy couple of weeks, and now I finally have time to sit down and tell you about it!

Firstly, Joe from Monaro Printing has once again come to my rescue. I've been printing on the Collie with the metal base I had made for the Adana. So although the Collie's chase is 10 x 15", I've only been able to print 7 x 4". The new base is A4 and has a grid on it and will make my life so much easier now. Here's a photo.

Etsy-wise, I've been learning as much as I can on the site. I can't believe how much you can do on one little site. I also posted a new product:


The mini cards are 90 x 60mm and packaged in sets of 4. Another three colour design, this time using silver instead of a grey. Lesson learnt: you can't overprint silver. Even with black, the metallic creeps through. Still look okay though.

So these guys are up on etsy now. But in more exciting news: I made my first etsy sale! A buyer in the US bought my Groovin' Dudes card, so I can't wait to mail that out.

Poppy now on etsy.com!

For today's not-so-lazy Sunday afternoon, I printed the 3 little dudes that my (now) husband designed for me a while ago. I think they were originally squished onto the very first run of plates I had made, but haven't had much time to print them. Today I printed them in a little under 3 hours (a bit longer than planned, due to a couple of makeready issues). I'm getting pretty quick at changing colours on the press now.

What makes this card design so exciting for me is that they are my first item listed for sale in my new etsy shop! Check it out here. Tomorrow I'm printing the galah design that I had plates made for in January, so the dudes won't be sitting on etsy on their own for too long.

First cards

Front and back.
Front and back.


I wrote a long post in the first couple of days that I had the press, but that still needs work, so for now... here's what I've been up to!

Two card designs are printed. The first uses versions of the floral plate that I used on my wedding invites, in both blind deboss and teal. The second is one of my fiancee's designs, printed in a luminous lime green (looks more yellow here).
I'm blown away by the difference in quality to the Adana. And it's so much easier. And cleanup time is still 10-15 minutes. I get even impression every time, and each print looks just like the one before. No test prints necessary, just ink up and print away! Getting Collie was the best decision I made in '07.

I was so excited to print the yellow flower dude, that I didn't realise I printed the cards backwards - opening from left to right. My fiancee calls this the left-handed person's greeting card! So although I'm happy with the quality, I'm not happy to sell these as they are. I'll do a proper run for my etsy shop, which I plan to open in the coming weeks.

So, I have a few copies of the yellow flower dude card to give away! If you're interested in a free card, let me know in the comments. Because I'm not sure how to receive international payments for postage costs at this stage, I'll be shipping these free of charge. Free free free.

So the etsy shop is in the works, but in the meantime, if you see any designs on my blog that you'd like to purchase, shoot me a comment and I'll see what I can do.