It's become tradition in our house for the girls to give Valentine Day cards to all of their classmates. Last year and the year before that, the girls made the card of foam sheets and cutouts from the dollar store.
This year we decided to up the ante by printing custom cards for the girls. I involved them in the process and they were willing participants even if it meant just moving the cards from the printing table to other surfaces for drying.
I based the design on the famous I ♥ N Y rebus created by William Glasser in the late Seventies for the New York state marketing campaigns. The font for the heart is a free font from Dafont.com.
This was my first experience with mixing process (CMYK) colors and we achieved a fair enough mix for the heart. The front and the rear were printed a few hours apart as Acrylic inks dry very fast.
As an afterthought I decided to print the heart on the envelope as well carrying the theme through both the card and the envelope.
The cards laid out to dry
The rear of the cards. I tried to do this 'Postcard' style
The envelopes. I'm glad I did this
Awesome job D.... looking nice.
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