Welcome to Verity Ink!

Verity Ink was born out of an eleven year old passion for cardmaking, with stamps and embellishments. And in May of 2010, I turned my sights from stamping to owning a letterpress. Our first press is a 1907 Chandler and Price 12x18 platen press we named Freedom. The second press we have acquired is a Kluge 10x15. With one eye on the bride, and another eye on the small business in need of business cards and other advertising, I am eager to create for the southwestern Ontario client that up until now has not had an opportunity to buy letterpress products locally.

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

My mom asked me a couple of weeks ago if I might make her a few cards for the doctors and nursing staff that has been so good to her throughout the last few months.  And she says because she would buy cards anyways, she would naturally pay me.  Haha.  Silly mom.  I would be delighted to help you thank them.

I blogged about my initial reaction to my mom’s diagnosis here: http://daughter0fzion.wordpress.com/2011/03/03/no-one-ever-told-me-that-grief-felt-so-like-fear-c-s-lewis/.  It has been about seven months since the first diagnosis.  Seven months of major surgery, and chemo treatments…  And tomorrow she goes in for her last round of chemo. Over and over my mom has told me she would not have traded this experience for anything.

We talked this afternoon about how she would continue with followup appointments, to make sure the cancer stays in remission.  I suggested it’s hard to keep it in the foreground – and she disagreed.  She does not want to ever be so far from this experience that she forgets how comforting the Lord has been. She does not want to forget how much even a simple card, or flowers, or sitting with someone through chemo days can mean.  She does not want to take any of life for granted.

Mom, I am so very very grateful with you for the staff God has blessed you with, for the care you have received, for the support you have had throughout this journey.  We are all be more appreciative of the breaths we take, and the memories we make because of the hard road you have been on.  Soli Deo Gloria.




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Mimetic Entertainment business cards

I’m actually tempted to get emotional on this one.  Gavin Michael Booth – you have been one of the dearest friends to my family for over a decade now.  We live hours away, and lead very busy lives, but have always managed to find time at least once or twice a year to get together.  You’re the only thing (besides gyros) that I really miss about Windsor.  You have been an inspiration to me, a faithful friend, and a creative mind to bounce ideas off of.  I was so very glad we could do these cards up for you and your staff – especially glad to have got them to you in time for the Toronto International Film Festival. (side note – I’m still a touch giddy that Billy Boyd liked them)

Find Gavin here: http://www.youtube.com/mimeticonline, or here: http://twitter.com/#!/gavinbooth, or here: http://gavinnaked.com/, or even here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gavin-Michael-Booth/104148993891.  I’m sure I have missed a couple as well.

On to business cards.  We went with a black 2ply rag board, and a silver ink.  The design involved a hit on both sides, and three different names and sets of contact info.  The end result is a soft sort of paper – clearly letterpress, on a thicker paper that is clearly memorable.  Gavin (and Brendan, and Marie) – I can not wait to see what the coming years have in store for you!




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Sarah’s letterpress birthday invitations

My best friend brought her hooligans over for the afternoon.  Not to be confused with the sort of friend who likes to sit around sipping tea and eating bon-bons, I invited Heather out to the garage to help me letterpress.  I really wanted to reuse a lace plate I have fallen in love with when I created April’s invitations earlier this summer, and Heather chose a fantastic shade of pink to ink up the press with.  I had no idea when I went back into my studio what I was going to do with all of the gloriously inked sheets of cotton paper I had now in my hands; so when Heather jokingly suggested making them into invites for her ten year old daughter’s birthday invitations, I jumped at the idea to play around with them.

I loved being able to combine satin ribbon, glitter (glow-in-the-dark no less!), stamping, and letterpress. Throw in corner rounding, hearts on the envelopes and I think we’ve created the ultimate ten year old invite.  These are incredibly girly, but still stylish.  Happy birthday Sarah!!




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Alicia’s Invitations

Alicia was a really fun bride to work with – she had an awesome engagement session with her talented photographer, Jer Wilcocks, and we incorporated a couple dozen of her favourite pictures into the different stationery pieces I was involved in – in particular her invitations, seating chart and table numbers. (To see Alicia’s stunning wedding, check out Jer’s post)

Alicia paid me one of the biggest compliments – when she let me know that:

“Everything looks great, I got lots of compliments on the invitations. People didn’t want to send back the reply cards, some just kept them and verbally told us that they were attending.”

I have the occasional client under the assumption when we first start to talk that guests just toss away their invitations (the horror!) – it’s nice to hear from a bride who says she can not even get her guests to return the rsvp cards because they were holding onto them as a keepsake.

We used a different image from her engagement session on each table card, and obviously a couple of her favourites for the invitation, rsvp cards, and seating chart.  The seating chart is the same size as the ones I have done in the past – 30×40 inches – and even with as many guests as she had, was very legible because of how large it was.




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RL Design Inc. Open House

I LOVE working with other vendors in the wedding industry. So, when Ryan asked me to design invitations for his open house, it was an easy yes. So was creating menus, place cards and table numbers for the table mock ups he had. Ryan’s work is always classy, sophisticated, and specific to each client.

My favourite concept was creating the candle place cards. A shout out to Brent Foster whose name I borrowed – another great talent in the local industry! The exceptionally beautiful cake, and delicious cupcakes were created by Amy of Bake Me a Cake - so, so tasty!!




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