Fabulous Fall Wedding

Wedding invitations. They set the tone for the big day in a big way. So when you agree to work on a family wedding, the pressure is on! Thankfully, it was a smooth ride. And the results are, if I do say so myself, freekin' fabulous. Check out the photos below::

The workspace – aka the dining room table. Oh, how I long for a bigger house with a giant office! Photo features our great Gocco machine – we are still mourning the possibility that it will be extinct soon...


Detail of the invitation. Font is Bickham Script - with all it's gorgeous glyphs and Open Type features. Love love.


Thank you cards.


Finished invitations and RSVP cards. Incorporated the organic swirls into the basic lines on the RSVP so it looks super finished and cohesive.


All packed up and ready to go! Sometimes simple twine can make things look really classic and beautiful.

Until next time... Cheers!
Tamara

Moving Card

We've been busy with more custom work...

The guillotine cutter is an invaluable time saver!

Inking of the Gocco screen.

Printing...

And ta-dah! Fabulous, custom designed moving cards.

More Gocco

In order to get some more practice with the Gocco, I decided to design some Invitations and Thank Yous for my daughter’s first birthday. With my husband's help we were quickly able to produce some wonderful new creations. Here we are inking the screen:

After creating all the invites, we then proceeded to make the Thank Yous. We did this by using the same screen with some paper taped over the area we did not want printed:

Here are the cards drying:

And the finished product:

This whole process has been a lot of fun and I am so excited to create even more things with it. Can’t wait to start the next project!

-Ellen

Loco for Gocco!

It's been a while since our last post... but believe us, we've been busy! After months of playing around with our new Gocco, yesterday marked our first official project. For those who don't know what Gocco is, it's basically a way to silkscreen, all contained in a little machine. Check out our step by step from beginning to end!

Ellen is creating the screen. Two toxic (seriously!) lightbulbs go off and your screen is burned from a printout of your work.

The screen after it has been burned (the printout is still attached to the screen).

Using weird foamy strips, you can divide your screen for multiple colors.
On this pass we used two: red and gold.

Then you apply the ink.

We used two screens for this project, one for the top, and a second for the bottom. Here, the top portion is drying before we ink the bottom.

The finished product!

We are very excited with how this turned out, and can't wait for more projects to use with Gocco.
Insider info: We're currently working on custom wedding invites!
Cheers!
Tamara & Ellen