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Monday, September 12, 2011

NEW products - TAGALICIOUS

Gift tags for all occasions.

Buy them now in my ETSY shop here: Fluid Ink ETSY shop.

MAN TAGS
A series of 5 different tags suitable for the man in your life.
Printed on Kraft re-cycled paper, using black ink.
The images used were printed using vintage printers blocks that I scrounged the virtual world for.
They are vintage themselves. Some of them needed a heap of filing on the edges as the borders were printing as well as the image and I managed to hurt my palm from taking the chase out over and over to file down the block, put it back, pull a print, take it out file it down etc, etc...... Thanks must go to husband for allowing me to clog up one of his files in the process.


DOILY TAGS
Produced by punching out of the 'reject' doily save the date cards - the ones that didn't quite turn out perfectly.

BRANCHES TAGS
Again produced by using the 'reject' save the date branches cards- of which there were quite a few- first run and all!.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Doily save the date invitation - Front Page of ETSY

This means people like my work! Its a big deal and Im wrapped!

Visit the treasury HERE

Belshazzr's Feast

In celebration of the WASO - West Australian Symphony Orchestra performance of Belshazzar's feast, I thought it would be fun to create some coasters with phrases from the great work to share with my fellow chorus members. (and get some much needed practice of hand setting type - as you will see, I need it!)

I find it challenging locking up text in the chase. I never seem to have furniture of the right size and my lock up is very dodgy..

Also, I only have one letter each of the alphabet in my wood blocks, so I had to be picky with my words but it worked out well even if it did take all day to print 10 of each....

Black text - hand set 18pt type.
Red text - various wood block type.





Saturday, July 30, 2011

Lonny online mag

OMG! Check out this online mag.
Its all about home wares and design so it may not float your boat, but you have to be impressed with its awesome format! There are probably other mags online that are presented in the same way for IPads etc but this is MINT!
It is presented in magazine format, and all pages look like magazine pages but with an animated twist. The editorial page 'From the editor' blah that is usually on the fron few pages (that I usually skip over) is actually the editor in a 2 min movie talking to you about the edition. The ads are 'clickable' taking you to their website. Totally cool!
http://www.lonnymag.com

Monday, July 11, 2011

Save the date wedding invitations - doily

Yay. The official product launch.
Set of 8 imprintable save the date cards
With matching letterpress envelopes

These can be changed into a formal invitation by printing or letterpress the invitation words instead. And if you have a different occasion instead, we can leave off the words 'for the wedding of'.

to get your hands on these, visit my shop HERE





Friday, July 8, 2011

The Analog Underground
















"It’s a dinosaur’s approach, to be sure, born out of nostalgia and faddism and an idiosyncratic desire to unplug from our overly digitized existence. But there’s obvious appeal in being a (very) late adopter: “Analog objects seem like new technologies to those who have never experienced them.
For full story, click here:
http://nymag.com/shopping/features/analog-2011-7/