Metallic gold stripe tape.
Printing: Spent the afternoon after Thanksgiving showing my dad how the press works.
Paper: French Paper, Pop-Tone, Sweet Tooth, 140lb Cover
Ink: Tan Varnish (oil base)
Catnip noses
I have a cat. I think I have a fairly healthy relationship with him and don’t see a future for myself as a crazy cat lady. I am inspired to find amusements for my feline friend. One of them turned into this card.
Under the nose.
Printing: About 4.5 hours on my letterpress
Paper: French Paper, Dur-O-Tone, Newsprint White, 80lb Cover
Ink: Black, Warm Red (oil base)
Noses: Made of wool and catnip and are meant to be pulled off to be chewed and mangled by the recipients cat.
Blog cards
This was a good excuse to use my letterpress and use up ink on the press from other projects.
Printed on Pearl White Letra
In print and virtual print
Chen Design Associates has created a beautiful follow-up to their original Fingerprint book, Fingerprint part deux (2). The book features design work with an element of handmade. I’m excited to have a project in the book. The book is dense with inspiration and I can’t wait to give every page a thorough looking.
Check out the book more on the Fingerprint 2 Facebook page or you can get a copy here.
Also this little blog was recently “so noted” in virtual print on the Felt & Wire blog.
Pretty good week.
San Diego wedding invites
The month of May was filled with the letterpress printing of wedding invites I designed for a friend’s upcoming San Diego wedding. While it took a bit more time than I’d planned it was a pleasure to work on this project and provided many learning lessons for me on my press.
This was not my first printing project on my small press but it was my first complicated printing job. In all I printed 6 plates for a 4 piece invite which included a folding card (3 plates), bookmark (1 plate), rsvp (1 plate), and envelope (1 plate).
I was able to use a friend’s C&P treadle press for my first time using folding rule.
The diagonal quarter point lines above left were filling in to much so I had one plate remade during this project. I’m learning that there are some limitations to the deep relief box car plates that I use with my press. I will also not attempt quarter point dotted lines again either as they tend to break.
Paper: Pearl White; 110 lb Crane Lettra and A7 envelopes
Ink: PMS 072, PMS 158*
*I mixed the PMS 158 myself which provided one more lesson. The Lettra paper soaked up way more of the ink than I expected so I was inking the press every 10 prints and furiously mixing more ink as I went along. Luckily the orange is only seen once in each invitation because the color did shift from the first print to the last. The blue was used straight from the tube so no mixing needed.
