This is the business card I letterpressed on the Vandercook SP-20 for my little girl to hand out announcing the upcoming addition to our family (arriving May 2009). I'm really happy with how they turned out. Overall it was a fairly easy project. I found the most difficult and time-consuming aspect of the project was making sure the artwork was aligned correctly for printing.To create:
- I designed the artwork in Illustrator and sent it to Boxcar Press in NY to turn the artwork into photopolymer plates for printing.
- I hand mixed the ink based on Pantone formulas to get dark brown and pink. The pink ink was difficult. I wanted a lighter color but the transparent white ink which I added to tone the pink down was not very tacky which made the ink spread easily and not print as well.
- I designed the artwork in Illustrator and sent it to Boxcar Press in NY to turn the artwork into photopolymer plates for printing.
- I hand mixed the ink based on Pantone formulas to get dark brown and pink. The pink ink was difficult. I wanted a lighter color but the transparent white ink which I added to tone the pink down was not very tacky which made the ink spread easily and not print as well.
- I printed the image on Crane's Lettra Superwhite and then cut the business cards down to size.
3 comments:
You don't know how jealous I am right now! I love your darling and cute idea! The more and more I keep looking for cute invite ideas the more I see letterpress. After the holidays we may need to take a trip to the letterpress and create some things...no baby business cards for me yet.
You don't know how jealous I am right now! I love your darling and cute idea! The more and more I keep looking for cute invite ideas the more I see letterpress. After the holidays we may need to take a trip to the letterpress and create some things...no baby business cards for me yet.
Congratulations! What a fun idea!
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