A local photographer come to me with the charge of creating packaging for his business. He hands out a lot of CD’s when he does photography for clients and wanted a unique solution for how they are protected and presented. We created a custom die-cut and printed chipboard with red on one side and gloss varnish on the other. the result was a nice tactile piece that he could be proud to give his clients.
As I packed up samples I found a few things that I decided to take pictures of to show things that we have done in the past here at It’s Fancy. This is a custom baby announcement where the images tuck into a custom die-cut pocket with the announcement.
Invitation and insert: Letterpress Printed 2/0 (Light Green + Brown) on chipboard.
Envelope: 2/0 with green on green and a brown overlay.
I had a great opportunity to work on wedding invitations for a friend and his bride recently. There were no real constraints but a request for something poster like. They has a few colors that they liked but left the major choice up to me. After I played with standard 5″ x 7″ formats and nothing seemed to flow like I wanted it to so I started looking at #10 policy envelopes that opened on the end. Once I switched the format everything just started flowing together nicely for this custom letterpress invitation package.
I had a incredible opportunity to print a wedding invitation designed by a bride from Spain. This invitation needed to be printed and shipped on a truncated timeline. It ended up being a 2 color 2 sided invitation with a blind deboss the front. We printed it on Lettra 110# Pearl White cover.
Sugar Skull Letterpress Poster – six colors
Size:11×17
Price: $35
Limited edition of 200, signed by both artists
Using the unique art of David Lozeau we hand cut linoleum, hand set type and ran multiple passes of ink for countless hours to create this incredible letterpress poster.
The Sugar Skull designed by David Lozeau combines Carnival, Day of the Dead, and tattoo imagery. Underneath it we layered multiple colors of wood and metal type to create a rich composition. This poster is limited to a run of 200 and is signed by both artists.
Gilbert paper makes a great, but expensive, line of papers. Esse is the line I am talking about. This wedding package uses the Pearlized Latte 100# textured cover. I LOVE IT! It however needs a bit of specialty ink so it can fully dry. We had to find a fully oxidizing ink because the paper will not absorb it. But the end product definitely has got some FLASH. This package consists of a Save the date, 3 part main invitation, reply postcard and thank you card. Needless to say it has been a HUGE learning curve. This project has definitely taken me twice as long figuring out the best way to run this paper on my presses. The great part is it was all worth it!
