Tip #7

This tip comes from Sarah Noreen, an excellent printer who designed the December page in the 2011 PA Letterpress Calendar. To facilitate registration, she does test prints on tracing paper.... SO smart! I know I've shown some of you how to do tests on copy paper and compare alignment using the lightbox. It's the same idea, but this way is so much simpler! Just do your print on the tracing paper and then line it up with your actual paper to see where it'll print in relation to your paper's edges or previously printed colors!

Sarah's card had a little cutout window, so she used the tracing paper to place her pretty border around the window:

2011 Pyramid Atlantic Letterpress Calendar

I've finally crunched all the numbers and it looks like this year's Letterpress Calendar fundraiser project raised over $1,500 for Pyramid! The calendar (edition of 100) sold out in less than two weeks after its debut at this year's Book Arts Fair.

Since I haven't posted any photos of the calendar on this blog yet, here we go...

These photos were taken by Alyson Hurt (January designer):



Here are some photos of our assembly party taken by Alyson, Erin Brophy (February designer) and myself:


And lastly, a little video that Bridget Stoyko took while we were printing the second color of her March design:

Thanks again to everyone that participated:

• Calendar designers: Alyson Hurt, Erin Brophy, Bridget Stoyko, Sarah Hanks, Matt Hyson, Hadiya Williams, Sara Shaffer, Erica Schuetz, Moira McCauley, Melanie Karlins, Tess Sammarco, Amelia Smith and Sarah Noreen
• Paper cutters/assemblers/ribbon tiers: Patricia Lee, Anne Clewall, Jocelyn Chiu, Beck Levy, Megha Even

Stay tuned for next year's calendar!

Atlas Holiday Market - Saturday December 11th

Melanie and I will be selling some of our stationery, along with goodies from Pyramid printers Moira McCauley, Sarah Noreen, Sarah Hanks and Steve Cole at the Atlas Holiday Market this Saturday!

We'll be selling letterpress holiday cards as well as stationery/prints/posters that would make great gifts. Come visit us between 2-8pm (Atlas Performing Arts Center, 1333 H Street NE)!

Here are some of Melanie's holiday items (also available at her etsy shop):

• Some really cute/funny gift tags:

• Wood type holiday cards:

• Holiday cards featuring a trifecta of typeforms: wood type, metal type and photopolymer!

And a couple of my holiday items:

• My "merry christmas" cards done in 4 colors (yep, a registration nightmare):

• And some Christmas tree gift tags decorated featuring tree decorations entirely from letters and punctuation in Baskerville: