We are having so much fun with our little press. However, with it came in a huge wooden crate. As of right now it is siting in the middle of our living room. I can’t bring myself to part with it. There has to be some good use for it, right? I’ve been racking my brain and have yet to think of one.
The first step was to decide what we wanted our first print to say, set the type by hand, and lock it up in the press’ chase (the frame that holds the type or artwork). We chose to print the name of our blog in the first typeface we purchased last year; 18pt Clarendon.
This is our very first letterpress impression pulled. Words cannot describe how excited we were to have finally had the right tools to create a design that you can actually feel. As recommended by our printmaking professor from JBU, we bought two large sheets of Rives BFK printmaking paper from Blick art for our first set of prints.
We experimented a little bit trying to control the amount of embossing the lead type made in the paper before unlocking the type. It means so much to us that we decided to buy a frame and display our very first prints.
As soon as we were done with our first design we wanted to try out our second typeface; 36pt 20th Century Medium. We also had a few ornamental borders that came with our press starter’s kit that we wanted to try out, so we quickly put together a thank you card and tried to lock up the type as best we could. We quickly realized it was like a puzzle that had no reference. But eventually we made it work and for not knowing what it was going to look like, we were pretty happy.
I just wanted to quickly encourage you to start following our blog if you enjoy it and to join our page on facebook if you have an account. We love to know who we’re writing to and how you’re liking our blog. Plus our facebook page has exclusive updates that don’t get posted here.
source: Sparkly Pony
This Etsy shop has a lot of funny and well designed items. Check them out!
Relax…and read a book this weekend.
I love a good book. My favorite is To Kill a Mocking Bird. Do you have a favorite? I would love to add it to my ever expanding list.
Normally photo of the week only has one photo, but there were too many great photos to choose from on this roll. So this week we decided to post all of our favorites.
This past Christmas I bought Jamie an old film camera. It’s an Olympus PEN 35mm half-frame camera from 1959 (half-frame means it exposes two images per frame of film). Our digital camera is also an Olympus PEN, but it was made just a few years ago. I found the film camera on ebay and the seller wasn’t sure if it even worked or not. We were hopeful though, and loaded in a roll of film and shot away while we were in Colorado during Christmas vacation. We sent the film in to snapfish to get developed and a few days later we got to see the photos we had taken. The camera worked flawlessly. Here are a few of our favorite shots (click on an image to see it larger).
Jake and I fell in love in London. So naturally we can’t get enough of it. Jake’s dad shared this video with us. It has brilliant cinematography and the fabulas type treatment gives you a taste of British culture.
I’ve already watched it twice.
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