Cards!

These were the trial run through the press; there are a few important things that I learned:

1. don't leave the paper catchers in the way when you're printing on a boxcar base. it will a. try to hurt the base, and b. not allow you to print. my base now has a small dent, fortunately in an area that will never be printed on.

2. those metal clips for registration are not worth it. I definitely have a dent in the base from that, and after i realized it I threw the little clip thing across the room and yelled at it for denting the boxcar base. Have since come up with a newer and better system, in my opinion.

3. printing is exceptionally gratifying. I knew that, but it reinforces the fact.

Happy Earth Day!

Spin Art

My little cousin has a spin art thing, so naturally we had some time creating spin art. It's going on my wall of inspiration things in the print shop.

Today I didn't do so well with earth friendly, other than remembering to recycle, and also accidental carpooling--accidental because it was only a practical thing, not a planned "enviro-friendly" thing.

Haven't heard anything from Boxcar to say that my base has been shipped; but I'm planning on being up in the press shop for a while tomorrow, starting to print cards, or at least work through the bumps of first printing on a platen.

Oh, and going to get shirts for the cool crowd that is getting tee-shirts.