The complete package of items I made for my friend’s wedding, including the invitation bundle, place card and lined envelope
I had the most delightful conversation with my friend Meghann this morning. Meghann is getting married in December of this year, and she just received the package of wedding invitations the hubby and I made for her and her fiance. I’m so happy and relieved that she likes the results of our efforts (the hubby mainly used his biceps to help me with lifting boxes of cardstock, and he’s a whiz with a glue stick).
If you’ll recall, I volunteered to make Meghann’s wedding invitations for her with my little Gocco machine, a Japanese printing machine. For DIY’ers, the Gocco is better than a regular inkjet printer because you can print using light-colored or metallic inks on dark paper. It’s also worse than an inkjet printer in a lot of ways, but mainly because each card must be hand printed. In the case of these invites, where I used two colors, each card had to be handprinted twice.





So pretty!
Thanks, Tara!
You go Glen Gocco.
Stephanie: your comment made me laugh out loud. Remind me to tell you about another Mean Girls moment I had today.
hi, just thought i would let you know that your gocco posts got me interested and i ended up looking up some video’s on youtube (where else) and it seems you can use a ink block to print using more than 1 colour at 1 time….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJzkhfWwrXM&feature=related
Althie: thanks! Actually, I’ve printed multiple colors using the Gocco ink-blocking material before. The difficulty with these invitations is that I’ve discovered the metallic gold ink I was using and the navy blue ink have different consistencies, which meant that when I ran the screen as one ink-blocked screen with navy and gold, the navy ink ran while the gold ink barely printed. In the end, it was easier/better to run the screens in two passes to ensure that the ink got applied evenly. Thanks for your interest!