Questions...

Hi Chaps! I need to know a few things before I start printing properly tomorrow. They're tiny but they do make a difference to the end result.

1) The impact of the letter press - do you want it very noticable ie so that you can see the imprint on the reverse (to the point it shows - see image 2 - this is effect is done using a blanket rather than a metal plate) We can get a really clean punch on the front without doing it but I wanted to check if you wanted it so embossed that you felt it on the back. Lee thinks it looks more 'professional' when you can't see it but Craig and Jonathon think it looks more 'special/hand pressed' if you can see it. I think it's makes it more tactile and I like it but then again i like both. They both are as 'letter pressed' on the front.

2) Colour - we printed it with a nice warm black onto white paper and an off white (creamy colour - my preference) I know we said brown but this may complicate the print colour for the additional pages (which i'm printing from my ink jet) I'm afraid we'll not quite match the browns up, which i think will look funny. It'll be much easier to print in the soft black - which when printed on the cream gives a sepia style effect - not sure if you can see this in the photo. So questions here are... brown or black ink? Cleam or white paper? (the cream paper's a bit stiffer to which works well with the letter press, and it's really nice)

3) Also wanted to check that edition was 130 (hehe we could edition each one if you wanted!)

I think that's all - but if you could let me know asap that'd be grand.

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Printing press

Hi guys. We've made the plate this morning and done 5 proofs. Can you call me and we'll chat through them x





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Invitations...

Hi Folks! Hope this finds you both well. I'm just tying things up as I'm finally booked in to print with Lee next Saturday and Sunday (after my wee mess up with ordering a positive instead of a negative, which has delayed printing by a week). So, for the additional pieces to go in with the invitation here's what I have done - did we say we needed anything else (can't remember whether the map was a go-er or not- if so, i'll crack on with it as i'd like to have everything finished before next Tuesday). Can you let me know which of the Where To Stays you'd prefer? And if there's anything else I said I'd do. Much love xx

It's only words

Changes to the words...!

Mr & Mrs Derek Arnold
request the pleasure of your company
to celebrate the marriage of their daughter
Georgina Hunter
to
Mr Christopher John Chatfield
at
St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland
on Saturday 4th September 2010 at 2.30pm
& afterwards at Bamburgh Castle
for dinner & dancing

Carriages at midnight

Dress code: sharp suits, posh frocks & fancy hats

RSVP: 18 Quakers Hall Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3TR
By 1st July 2010

Words are all I have...

Hello lovely Lara

Absolutely loving the invitation! Thanks so much. Agree that more detail in the invite would look good. I'm not worried about overcrowding it, I think if there are lots of different things going on in the design it adds to the overall narrative and intrigue. more the merrier in fact! loving the tree, could be push the castle to the left and put another one on the right hand side? Add in some flowers on the left hand side? flowers are good. add in a boat/canoe/surfboard on the sea?

Would it be possible to make the edging border the same size as the edging on the heart?

On the wording front (you'd not believe how blooming contentious this has been!) we have the following:

Mr & Mrs Derek Arnold
request the pleasure of the company of



at the marriage of their daughter
Georgina Hunter
to
Mr Christopher John Chatfield
at
St Aidan’s Church, Bamburgh, Northumberland
on Saturday 4th September 2010 at 2.30pm
& afterwards at Bamburgh Castle
for dinner & dancing

Carriages at midnight

Dress code sharp suits, posh frocks & fancy hats

RSVP 18 Quakers Hall Lane, Sevenoaks, Kent, TN13 3TR
By 1st July 2010

could you mock up a centred version and also a justified one - I tried doing this in word but couldn't get the desired effect to show you. I like the idea of the text making a square. wondered what that would look like.

was thinking about it how it will come together - if there was a fold in the card with the design on the front and then the wording 'inside'. also like using a ribbon though though because the design is quite intricate perhaps a ribbon might be over the top. need to decide on colour still...

No text please, we're British

Hullo folks, I need the text to finish off the invite. Can you send through the exact text you want? this is a bit what it looks like now - any comment suggestions please? Not sure about a few things, think it needs more detail but also don't want to over do it and also need to fic some of the waves as they've gotten a mis-shapen x