Saturday, February 5, 2011

Idea Thief

I wander through Paper Source and other stationery stores fairly often looking for ideas for my letterpress class. One thing that's always caught my eye at Paper Source is their business card sized cards that have simple words/sayings printed on them. This gave me inspiration to make my own today.

"I love you" Cards

These are 4bar sized cards (hand cut by my teacher since I forgot to bring my own). They're essentially twice the size of a business card. It's much more precise and easier to print on a larger card twice and just cut them as opposed to printing on a small business card, so we prefer to do things this way. I used 36 point Bank Script and selected a bright, Valentines-y red to print in. I'm considering doing these in the colors of the rainbow and tying them together to give out as presents (while keeping a bunch of my own to use, of course). Oh. The first few I printed had the "u" in the wrong font. I had to clean the print off, pry out the "u" with my fingernails and find the proper replacement. But.. the crisis wasn't as bad as it could have been because the spacing turned out to be identical and I didn't need to fiddle to find new lead/copper/brass to fix it. One day when I'm less scatterbrained, I'll do a better explanation of letterpress.

I'm aware that this post is written in terrible English. Lo siento.