As mentioned in an earlier post, the invites were designed and printed by our friend Allison Baer, one of Courtney's coworkers at Tacoma Art Museum. Allison is the artist behind Lettuce Press in Tacoma, and the proud owner of a 1907 printing press that she keeps in her living room. She did a lot of work this past week, and Courtney helped some, to get 100 or so poster-invites, matching envelopes, and accompanying RSVP postcards 2-color printed on aformentioned press.
Here are some pictures of the process:
Allison's printing area in the livingroom; mixing the ink. Allison mixed the blue to match exactly with Courtney's wedding dress, and the green to match the chartreuse envelopes we ordered.
Courtney and Allison operate the press; Allison tools with the plate for the invite.
The invites and RSVP card after the first round of ink -- just the blue. We did them all on white paper, then realized the blue looked even better on the chipboard (the cardboard material), so we made some on that, too. Luckily the green came out better on the original white, so it all worked out best in the end.
...And the final products, coming soon to a mailbox near you!
Man, I appreciate the free blog space and all, but Blogger sure makes it hard to arrange those photos and text.
ReplyDeleteWow. that is sooo cool that you created your own invite. I mean the fact that you guys put it together and the design itself is so you! So happy for you! I want to tear up (maybe it's those pregger's hormones)
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