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my very first gocco project is complete.
i was asked to create invitations for my grandpa's
eightieth birthday and family reunion.
so, i figured it was a fantastic time to test out the little baby.
the gocco process would have been easier had i not rushed into things without really reading any form of instructions whatsoever.
i watched a tutorial by weddingbee's miss penguin and just kinda jumped in.
my first mistake was that i didn't use a laser printer. i used my inkjet and, while everything else in this first run went smoothly, the ink did not come through the screen well enough - leaving me with messy, half-prints.
secondly, once i went to office depot and printed my image on their laser printers, i stupidly flashed without a screen... it ended up burning the image onto my blue filter. (duh, laura...)
thankfully, my wonderful seller, judy, at northwood studios told me that my blue filter should still work just fine.
my stupidity aside, i am proud of my meager goccoing results:
date and location blurred for privacy.
this was not the best print (as you can see by the sloppily printed pail), but all the good ones were all packed up and ready to go when i thought to take a picture.
the paper is 100% recycled, handmade paper with wildflower seeds. these babies can actually be recycled even further by planting them in the ground. i bought the paper for $2 a sheet (one sheet made six+ invites) from the lovely ladies at greenfields paper company. (the sheets are normally $4 each, but i was able to buy "imperfect" ones at half price. they looked perfect to me, and they had a ton of the blue and red specked paper in this half off pile, so i was sold).
for envelopes, i used this template that i created
and lined it with polka dot paper from a local scrapbooking store.
i taped them with scotch double stick tape... it was a welcome change from the rubber cement im used to scrapbooking with.
finally, the insert included extra information and some wordy messages that my grandpa wanted to include. i ran out of time, so they were printed on my inkjet. (i had dreams of more gocco-ing and cardstock lining and joy, but what i ended up with work just fine.)
so, there ya go!
my grandpa is very happy with them, so all's well.
what can i gocco next??
i was asked to create invitations for my grandpa's
eightieth birthday and family reunion.
so, i figured it was a fantastic time to test out the little baby.
the gocco process would have been easier had i not rushed into things without really reading any form of instructions whatsoever.
i watched a tutorial by weddingbee's miss penguin and just kinda jumped in.
my first mistake was that i didn't use a laser printer. i used my inkjet and, while everything else in this first run went smoothly, the ink did not come through the screen well enough - leaving me with messy, half-prints.
secondly, once i went to office depot and printed my image on their laser printers, i stupidly flashed without a screen... it ended up burning the image onto my blue filter. (duh, laura...)
thankfully, my wonderful seller, judy, at northwood studios told me that my blue filter should still work just fine.
my stupidity aside, i am proud of my meager goccoing results:
date and location blurred for privacy.
this was not the best print (as you can see by the sloppily printed pail), but all the good ones were all packed up and ready to go when i thought to take a picture.
the paper is 100% recycled, handmade paper with wildflower seeds. these babies can actually be recycled even further by planting them in the ground. i bought the paper for $2 a sheet (one sheet made six+ invites) from the lovely ladies at greenfields paper company. (the sheets are normally $4 each, but i was able to buy "imperfect" ones at half price. they looked perfect to me, and they had a ton of the blue and red specked paper in this half off pile, so i was sold).
for envelopes, i used this template that i created
and lined it with polka dot paper from a local scrapbooking store.
i taped them with scotch double stick tape... it was a welcome change from the rubber cement im used to scrapbooking with.
finally, the insert included extra information and some wordy messages that my grandpa wanted to include. i ran out of time, so they were printed on my inkjet. (i had dreams of more gocco-ing and cardstock lining and joy, but what i ended up with work just fine.)
so, there ya go!
my grandpa is very happy with them, so all's well.
what can i gocco next??
