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I have been able to spend more time in the studio the last couple weeks (thanks to my part-time status in the summer) and it’s been invigorating.  J wanted some postcard sized business cards printed so I got down to business.  I chose Kabel for the typeface primarily because I had it in a variety of sizes and light and bold.  And I had a linoleum carving of a chicken that I did a few years ago that seemed to work well for his business — The Chicken Barn Recording Studio.  The text was all printed in black and then I mixed a bright red with brown to get a brick red for the chicken. 

He also wants some similar cards for another business so I drove up to Rock, Paper, Scissors in Wiscasset this afternoon and as always found exactly what I wanted.  The shop owner had lots of chipboard kicking around so I got a nice big stack that we’ll cut up to use for the rustic looking cards.

I also revamped my inspiration board.  The contents had been up for far too long.  Here’s the update:

Hopefully I’ll have lots more to share in the coming days and weeks.
Have a great weekend!

I have yet to post anything about it, but I participated in a letterpress print exchange a couple months ago.  I made about 50 prints and sent them off and patiently waited until a couple weeks ago when I received the batch of prints in the mail (thanks to Kelly of Paper Stories for all her work organizing and executing this exchange).  What a treat!  Everything was fantastic and the swap contained very diverse styles.

For my print I used wood type to spell out TOOLS and then I carved a linoleum block with a spade, saw, pitchfork and hammer.

Now there is a giveaway being done on Poppytalk so if you’re interested in winning some fabulous letterpress prints, head on over and follow the instructions.