Save the Date Cards

Here's what we ultimately designed and printed after taking the screen printing class! We had a lot of fun with the whole process. Our screen printing teacher was such a cool guy and he really helped us out a lot (Chet at the T Factory at the UCSD craft center = amazing!).

Screen printing

Chris and I have been taking a screen printing class to prepare to print our own Save the Date cards and invitations. Here are some of the things we've been printing!

This was my project for the first week, which was black-and-white. We had to cut the image out of tracing paper; then, we put the tracing paper under the screen as we pulled the ink. The image is a copy of a window from V for Vendetta by Alan Moore.

This was Chris' project for the first week: an image from one of the Sin City books by Frank Miller.

The second week, we cut images from rubylith. The rubylith was used to transfer the image onto the screen, and then we just pulled the ink.  The above image is mine; below is Chris's.

Most recently, we did a high-contrast project, where the image could not have any mid-tones (grays). For this, we just Photoshopped an image and sent it to the instructor digitally. He printed it (with a regular printer) on a transparency and then used that to expose the screen and transfer the image.