Wednesday 30 December 2015

Noted

Apologies for the hiatus, we've been a wee bit busy in the run up to the festive season. Much fun has been had with various craft markets, epic Christmas card print-runs, typing letters from Santa etc.






Most of our time has been devoted, however, to another new project, about which we're very excited... Personalised Notebooks!


This started off as 2015's solution to our annual 'massive family, no time' Christmas present dilemma, but we're pleased to say has proved popular with our customers as well.

I don't have as many 'work in progress' photos as I'd like, so will be sure to take some more detailed shots next time we're making.

The covers are letterpress printed with the text either being blind debossed or printed with black ink:



We've given a choice of two 24pt fonts. Gills Sans Bold:


Or Bernhard Gothic Light:


We were able to stick with our ethical sourcing policies by using recycled board for the covers. This is from the lovely Eco-craft, and we selected a range of 11 very sexy colours:



The few work in progress shots I do have:







To bind the notebooks, we use a simple 3-hole pamphlet stitch, like so:




Using our very lovely Bookbinding Tool Kit from the LCBA:


Here's hoping we'll be making plenty more of these in 2016.