Cat's Envelopes (sample round)

I'm doing the envelopes for lovely Cat & Dan's upcoming nuptials (in France!), so I sent them a few samples. This is the outer envelope with simple Copperplate, done on a diagonal. (Although it has no real relationship to the script, I love the Yosemite National Park commemorative stamp.)

Thank You Card: La Dolce Vita

This is a thank-you post card I made a few years ago on letterpress. It was actually pretty labor-intensive: whenever you want to change colors on the press, you have to clean the press, mix the new color (and by the way, pantone inks on the mixing palette look nothing like how they will eventually print--you have to pay close attention to ratios), re-ink the press, and re-register everything (this is also why when you get custom letterpress, the price increases exponentially from one- to two-color to three-color process). I have a stack of "dummy" versions of this card due solely to registration issues. Nevertheless, I love the work of letterpress and so enjoyed making this one. The backside is blank.

JJ's Table Numbers

My friend JJ asked me to make the table numbers for her wedding--such an honor. Each one is made from a 9x12 cardstock, folded in half, and stands vertically, like a greeting card.

I did illustrations on the outside that referenced things about the couple (their hobbies, hometown, colleges, etc) and on the inside, we came up with prompts for the guests such as "advice for the bride and groom" or "places the bride and groom should travel to in their lifetime."

The best thing about the project is that materials-wise, it's relatively inexpensive. We bought two pads of 9x12 bristol online for about $4 bucks each and I used 3 pens for the drawings: a thin pentel unisco micro-tip, a thin-felt tip for the first layer of the numbers, and then a sharpie to darken the numbers. The total was less than $20.