past weekend's gocco fun!

our rehearsal dinner invites 

(sorry for the blurs, gotta protect our privacy)

i say fun, because this gocco print job was pretty smooth sailing!

oh that's a lie actually, i did gocco all of the project just to show them to my FI and him tell me the RSVP phone# was wrong!... arg....

so back to Paper Source i went, picked up 2 packs of new B6 cards and spend my saturday

trying again! =) i was helping out FMIL by gocco'ing our rehearsal dinner invites, which

by the way turned out awesome (this is the smooth sailing part)

here's a picture filled step by step of the process:

putting my screen to good use by running other colors for upcoming bridal expo merchandise. 

gocco screens don't really preserve well, so if you aren't doing a large quantity run, you aren't getting a good return on your $3 screen!

gocco'ing also happens to take up A LOT of space, ie the dining room table, a coffee table, and our antique desk (pictured here).  if you'd like to avoid this.... buy lots of card drying racks, and i thought 3 would be plenty  ha ha!

this is as i was about to begin my second run on the invites for the text - you have to let it dry if you have to do multiple passes ( more than one screen)

the coordinating envelopes... just tying it all together

i love these even without the invite text - you'll be able to find these in my etsy store soon!

i laid out my laser printed master, and burned my screen - here you can see the ink blocking foam, and how i separated colors, this is the brown ink only.  i block really close to the text to trap the ink, and also so i don't waste ink by letting it run all around the screen.

here we have the brown and gold inks, almost ready to print!

peeling back the master copy 

hint: if you leave the mast stuck to the screen until after you apply the ink, you don't have to worry about the ink getting on things or smearing prior to starting.

close up to give you idea of the detail of the gocco print quality - if you look closely at the R in dinner, you'll see that i wasn't keeping a close eye on the ink, some areas of the screen do tend to burn through ink very quick, so pay attention to each print, you do have to re-ink some areas even on short print runs!

i believe this is misty's first appearance on the blog... but she was lending blogging moral support while i sat here and typed.

anyone else gocco'ing everything in sight???

next gocco projects on my list:

invites

cocktail napkins

programs

menus TBD

gifts for some special someones =)