It's been over a year since I last printed, so this was kind of a daring move to print my own Christmas cards. Well you see it was like this: I have a party I'm supposed to attend tomorrow night, although weather may postpone it. Said party will be attended by people I work with/for and I cannot afford to give everybody a Starbucks card, so in order to give a nice gift this translates to a handmade card and home made cookies. I carved the blocks several days ago, mixed up the cookie dough for half the cookies today, baked other cookies last night. You know, it wasn't so bad. The printing I mean. I used some Nishinouchi and some Shin Torinoko white, both from McClain's, and I actually managed to moisten the paper not too much, not too little, and the registration held too! Helps that the paper is small. I printed the red and black twice on each print, and only screwed up 4 with a total run of 22 finished prints. I'm pleased with it, no tears!
To finish these, I will trim and glue them to the front of some pre-cut standard cards I have, then stuff them into envelopes. Oh the days get so short this close to Christmas!
Maybe now I will be brave enough to print the heron blocks I carved a couple of months back.
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