Mexico Map Letterpress Save the Date
This Mexico save the date from Spark features a vintage letterpress Mexico map to announce your upcoming wedding! For your classic Mexican wedding in Playa del Carmen, Oaxaca, Cancun, and beyond! The same map theme for your save the date can also be used for your wedding invitations.
How do you experience making a letterpress wood type Save The Date without an 800 pound printing press? With an Ipad, of course! John Bonadies, innovator, designer, and visionary artist along with his programming team started with an idea funded by KickStarter. He wanted everyone to enjoy the rich experience of creating letterpress and his idea lead to the LetterMpress app.
The left two iamges are designs created using the app. The right two photos are prints created by Letterpress Light from the LetterMpress files.
Bonadies and his team made scans of real vintage wood type in order to create the type and design options available in the app. You get to pick out and place your wood type on the screen, right on your virtual press bed. The team at LetterMPress designed the layout you see here for us, generating the “print” below (without any ink-stained fingers!). (Check out the cool videos of LetterMpress in action.)
We took this high-res image and turned it into these deep embossed Letterpress Light prints.
And here’s the back:
Check out the app, play around, create, have fun! (We did.)
One of our most popular wedding invitations is our embossed Talavera Mexican Tile design. We thought it was time to show it off in some of the many possible combinations of colors available! The original design uses very traditional Mexican colors of green, yellow, orange, and blue, but we love seeing it in unusual combinations like black, white, gray, and pink. Pair it with a bright pink pocketfold and it’s a whole new theme come to life.
Rose used to live next to the Uriarte store in Mexico City, an outlet for their factory in Puebla. Although Talavera-style ceramics began in Spain, the Uriarte Factory in Puebla, Mexico is the largest producer of Talavera pottery in the world. This factory was started in 1824 and has the top artisans in the region.
Artist painting a Talavera tile.
The colors can also be customized just for you, including embossing with no color in white. We can also custom design a tile from scratch if you want something just for you!
