My sister is getting married soon, and I had the opportunity to design and letterpress her invitations. They are printed on Holyoke Antique Paper 140 lb. I actually noticed during this project that I completely messed up on the polymer plate making process. If you notice where the orange and blues leaves are, the stems where not suppose to show through. I accidentally forgot to fix that in the illustrator file before sending to get the plate made. Even though its clearly a mess up, I actually kind of liked the look of it better.
I designed these cards a few months ago, and finally got the time to letterpress. They were done on Crane Lettra Fluorescent 110 lb paper. I also used a creasing matrix on the press, which was pretty easy to do. The cards were sewn together at the top, thanks Tricia for you help on this. I did run into some issues with having it not ink in certain areas, so there was a lot of make ready to do beforehand. I ran into some headaches with this project, but overall am very happy with the outcome.
A friend of mine needed some tags made for his clothing line called Bang! Whimper. The tags are done on Mohawk Fine Paper Proterra, 110 double thick cover (298 gsm). The paper has a kraft looking feel to it, and really goes well with the clothing line that is coming out soon.
So I finally purchased a scoring rule and some creasing matrix from NA Graphics. The scoring rule is a piece of metal .918 height that when pressed onto the creasing matrix applies a score to the paper. The Creasing Matrix is applied to the Typman paper where the paper sits on top and gives it a crease. See images below.
Here is an image of the scoring rule and creasing matrix. The Creasing matrix (Yellow piece) has a sticky side that sticks to the typman paper.
This is how it works, the scoring rule press the paper into the creasing matrix.
Creasing Matrix applied to typman paper.
Scoring Rule locked up in the Chase.
Final test run done on Crane Lettra 110lbs paper.
