Welcome to Hello!Lucky's collection of letterpress custom birth announcements and thank you notes! Our designs have been recognized by stylish new moms and the editors at Chronicle Books, Cookie Magazine, and American Baby as some of the most adorable custom birth announcements available to you.

Inspired by vintage illustrations, our adorable custom birth announcements are gorgeously letterpress printed on the highest quality paper and feature many hand-crafted touches, like glossy custom photographs, colorful card stock backings, and much more. In our bestselling Baby Frame announcements a tiny photo of your little one is hand-mounted on a gorgeous letterpress printed card, creating a beautiful announcement card and lovely keepsake. About our custom birth announcements

Grounded in clean, solid design principles, Hello!Lucky's range of custom birth announcements capture the joy of your new arrival. The collection includes boy custom birth announcements, girl custom birth announcements, photo custom birth announcements, multiple custom birth announcements, and adoption announcements. Our designs feature original illustrations created with a sense of whimsy, refinement, and classic charm, and our clients regularly tell us that our custom birth announcements are adored by all who receive them.

Why Hello!Lucky custom birth announcements?

At Hello!Lucky, we love babies. Our lovely original children's illustrations have made their way into two vintage-inspired baby journals published by Chronicle Books www.chroniclebooks.com and also grace many of our custom birth announcements. Classic, refreshing, and utterly adorable, these illustrations combined with fine letterpress printing to make our custom birth announcements truly unique.

What makes letterpress custom birth announcements so special and high quality?

Hello!Lucky's letterpress custom birth announcements are designed by skilled artists and printed by expert artisans. The exceptional craft involved in creating them creates a delicate, tactile quality that makes our custom birth announcements feel like tiny works of art, certainly worthy of framing to help decorate baby's room.

Letterpress custom birth announcements are made by pressing each plate into soft cottony paper. The pressure on the paper results in a crisp indentation that gives dimension to the design, and accentuates intricate details. We print only on the finest-quality 30% post-consumer waste recycled paper to minimize the impact of our custom birth announcements on the environment.

The inks used in letterpress custom birth announcements are saturated spot colors, meaning that each color is mixed and applied separately. In contrast, a digitally printed custom birth announcements use a process similar to inkjet printing - the colors are composed of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black. This tends to result in muddier colors and you can sometimes even see the individual pixels that make up the composite colors, which makes the announcements feel more commercial.

The thing that most sets letterpress custom birth announcements apart from the digitally printed announcements is the fact that letterpress printing a small-scale, artisanal craft, and it shows. Our custom birth announcements take many hours design, print and assemble, and the labor and detailed work involved is reflected everywhere in the finished product. In essence, letterpress printing has more in common with fine art than commercial printing - letterpress printed announcements bear comparison to a limited-edition fine art prints and, as such, are the finest custom birth announcements available.

Ordering your custom birth announcements

Hello!Lucky provides a design and ordering system online to guide you through personalization options and offer you complete control over the details of your custom birth announcements. Hello!Lucky's design professionals personalize each piece exactly to your specified requirements and also double check your wording. All of Hello!Lucky's custom birth announcements are letterpress printed using time-honored artisanal processes, and so we recommend that you allow 15 days for your custom birth announcements to arrive. When you and your family and friends receive them, we promise it will have been worth the wait. We look forward to working with you to create your own unique custom birth announcements.