New Stuff

It's been a long while, but I have been working on a couple of things lately. One of my new fun things is my gocco printer. I've recently been meeting new people who have been giving me advice about what I should do when I graduate from UW, and I didn't have any thank-you cards around and thought this would be a good project. I bought like 200 colored note-cards from Target and went to work.

Here's my production process--in true Jenn-fashion, it's a little less than orderly and like all of my projects occurs on my dining table. :)


Here's what they look like up close--and I got a corner cutter, so that they're rounded, which I think is a nice touch. I printed with brown ink on the letters and the stars are gold (how cute is that?!). Ooh, AND I even got cellophane envelopes to put them in so that they look pretty professional, if I ever end up actually selling these things.

So I actually haven't been making books lately, but suddenly this weekend I got my stuff out again and made THREE books this weekend. And they're all blue--I'm not really sure what that says about my mood (probably nothing) and here they are...

The first one is for my Dad. I told him that I'd make him a book for Father's Day--so more than a month later, it's finally made. I think it turned out really nicely. It has a navy cloth cover, light blue wave end pages (de Medici Ming), and 18 white pages (80 lb cover, French Paper Company). Oh, do you like the Kleenex pack? So I realized in my last photos you can't really get an idea of size--so here's my attempt at "as compared to what?" This book is 9.5" wide and 11" tall.


Here's another pretty one. I'm really getting into making books with a plain cover, but with more extravagent/fancy end pages so that when you open the book, it's like a surprise. This one, again, has a navy cover, endpages from de Medici Ming, and is filled with 48- 80 lb text Violet Mod-Tone from the French Paper Company. You can't really see it in the picture, but the pages are a very light blue, printed with white starbursts. It's 6.25" wide and 8" tall.


This last one is going to be sent to my Mom (probably when I send the big one to my Dad). My mom asked if I could make her one that could fit a 5" x 7" picture, so this one's 6" x 8" landscape, filled with 18 pages (80 lb cover, very slightly blue, French Paper Company), end pages are yellow and the cover paper I think is Mulberry and was bought at the UW bookstore.

In totally unrelated news, here's a shout out to my friend Renee (my best friend from High School--she knows all my secrets) and her new little family. Pictured below is Miguel (her husband), Renee, and their newest addition, Elias Antonio. Isn't he darling?! He's a big boy at 9lbs and almost 10 oz, over 21" long. Congratulations!