Let it swim
Just wanted to make a quick announcement that I have found some of the poplar Live What You Love prints after cleaning around (yes, they were buried…) — brown ones and special edition (mounted!) — please grab them as I won’t be printing these for a while…
It was time to restock my chipboard “thank you” cards for my shop… (You can see my Hello! cards and Thanks! cards by clicking the links) I actually printed “Enjoy” cards before, but never had a chance to share on Heart Fish and I printed some more… and this time, “Smile” cards, too :) When you order something from my shop, you will get one! With my hand-written thank you notes!
Type setting — printing 2 cards at the same time. I was working with some metallic ink (ohh, I can’t wait to show you guys what I was working on) and I loved the metallic blue ink so much that I decided to print my cards with it, too.
Everything looks so lovely on chipboards, don’t you think?
and here they are.
Enjoy and Smile! :)
**Also, visit me at Poppytalk Handmade Artists blog today, I talked about these not-for-sale thank you cards! :)
Poppytalk Mixed Tape Market is starting today — I’m participating again this month!
Please come visit my virtual booth here. I hope you like what I have selected…
Good morning :) Hope you all had a nice weekend and are ready for a new week! It’s going to be September… so fast… I didn’t like the heat and bugs bites (oh, I hated them!!!), but when I think about the summer is ending, I miss it already…
Anyways. I printed 3 more alphabet greeting cards and they are available now at my shop :) Here are some behind-the-scene photos as usual!
Mixing ink… I always think about if the word has a color, what color would it be before printing. Mixing pretty sky blue for…
C / Congratulations! I think sky blue is nice, fresh, happy and very celebratory for any occasion. Printing wood type “C” and the plate at the same time.
1st color printed.
Moving on to next… mixing pretty green…
for G / Get Well — this wood type “G” was a special one, has lots of textures! Hoping this lively green makes your loved ones feel better…
1st color done.
and moving on to the 3rd one… mixing nice orange…
for A / Anniversary :) I thought of red at first for the love related anniversaries, but rethought and decided to go with orange — can be sent for a shop anniversary, a blog anniversary, a work anniversary… any kind of anniversaries!
Setting wood type and the polymer plate, ready to print.
I like the orange, the 1st color printed.
2nd day — the brown color day!
Setting up the polymer plates. The border and “is for”.
Adjustments, adjustments, adjustments…
until it’s in exact spot! :) Print away…
and here are the finished products :)
You can see the wood type “G” texture more here.
This letter “A” has a very nice texture, too!
Hope you enjoy.
More cards to come soon! :)