After quite the wait, I finally got around to photographing the invitations I letterpressed last week. I’m very happy with how they turned out! The paper I used was from a Strathmore “make your own cards” kit. After I was finished printing, I simply cut the paper down. Though it’s hard to tell in the photo, the ink is actually purple. This is because of Purple Day, an epilepsy awareness day. The purple ink turned out to be quite a hassle though, because the stuff I started out using was so very old that it was “tacky” (to put it lightly). So tacky that it was actually causing the rollers on the vandercook to stick and the whole machine to make awful noises. Luckily it did just turn out to be the ink and not a more serious problem and switching inks resolved everything.

Hopefully I’ll find more excuses for printing things, because I had a lot of fun making these (and they were a lot less paper cutting than the little books, which was an added bonus)