Could there be a friendlier industry gathering of 11,000 people, 8,500 store owners and 800 exhibitors? Thousands of happy, friendly paper artists, designers and printers, all armed with engraved, pressed, foiled, stamped, numbered, hand-tipped, die-cut, hand-sewn, raffia-tied samples? What's not to like? The NSS is really just a massive Cuddly Kitten Convention. ...

The Beauty of Letterpress from Neenah Paper is an online destination that shows how this ancient print craft continues to excite the most progressive designers today. The website is resource center, a gallery of work and place where anyone can discover some of the most talented letterpress operators in the United States. Go to the blog post or head straight ...

Neenah Paper introduces The Beauty of Engraving, an innovative, engaging and informative online experience offering a trove of engraving examples, historical background, resources and contacts, technical tips and tricks, printed paper samples and links. The campaign features a delightful small film that brings the rich art and craft of engraving to every designer’s ...

Brides and grooms! Listen up! Haute Papier of Georgetown offers a contest prize that will get you to the church on time. Read all about it. Mais oui!

When Your Haute, You're Haute! When you not, you're not! When you're wrong admit it, too: our editor posted the wrong valentines to the feature on Haute Papier Collection. Call it love blindness. So many cool hot valentines coming through he got them confused? Our apologies... and here is the post again with the right Valentines.

{Above, card detail from Lady Bug Press of Boise, Idaho} These warm lovely winter days bring to us thoughts of Amore, Amore, Amore… no? Do you have a beautiful Valentine Card printed on a Neenah or CRANE® Paper sheet? Send in your best work. Throughout the next few weeks, we will be sharing the love [...]

What a great idea from Bennett Holzworth and his friends. Tapping into the same energy and collaborative spirit he uses in letterpress projects and blogging, Card to Art is a greeting card that easily transforms into a matted work of art that is ready for a standard frame.

Winter Wedding Plans? Old New Borrowed Blue is back with Abbey Fowler, proprietor of 625 Paper in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 2008 Abbey left her job as Art Director at a publishing company and started Syd Design to concentrate on custom wedding stationery. After three years of growth, she re-branded as 625 Paper (her wedding anniversary is June 25th) and moved ...

Sometimes I still think I'm crazy for jumping into this business without having a formal printing or design background. But then I retreat to a land of ink and iron to make something beautiful with my hands and the doubts leave. — TJ Strandberg, http://www.inkandiron.com

Ladies of the Letterpress at National Stationary Show May 16-19. Kelly McMahon withMay Day Studio hard at work pictured above. Their backgrounds are varied, they live in cities and towns across the country, but the Ladies of the Letterpress share one thing in common: a passion for the craft of fine printing and fine printing [...]