Digital Fold Freebie: Ribbon Stickers

Phew! Finally back to Atlanta! What a longgg day yesterday was, and what an amazing trip to NY it ended up being. I feel so inspired and so excited to do new things and try new things with one of my favorite mediums..paper! I can't wait to share the photos from my trip, so expect a pretty nice post tomorrow! I hope everyone's week is off to a great start! As promised, this week's freebie over at the digital fold is up. A 4 page set of ribbon stickers containing 2 different ribbon types in 2 different sizes and 2 different colors – 46 ribbons in all. Get em here or by clicking the preview below :) Have an ahhh-mazing hump day!

TypeOh! Tuesday #51

Happy Tuesday! I'm making my way back to Atlanta today, and I'll be sure to post pics as soon as I get through all the good ones! This week's type was made with some black acrylic paint I had sitting around, and a paintbrush that turned out to be not so reliable the more I used it. I bet you can guess when I started not bothering with straight, clean blocks of black anymore :)

New York City

Sweet and Simple Infographics

I like thinking that as you're reading this (if it's Monday, of course), I'm moseying around Javits looking at all things paper-amazing. I hope you had a great weekend! Here's some infographics to trigger the brain into work mode for the week :o)

NYC!

Pretty lame blogger stole away everyone's last post and comments..not sure if you heard - but it went down for almost a full day yesterday. I'll repost those vids with next week's music post if it doesn't come back by then. In the meantime, just wanted to let everyone know the digital fold freebie for next week will get posted wednesday instead of monday because I'll be in NYC!!! (typeoh will still happen tuesday). I'm so, soooo excited for this, charging my camera tonight because it'll be taking more than a few pics! Happy Friday the 13th (and Happy Birthday to my Mom and sister!) Have a GREAT weekend!

listening to

these songs this week. Just found out tickets for bon iver in atlanta go on sale TOMORROW! So yea, he made the cut this week :)

For Emma, Bon Iver



Blinking Pigs, Little Dragon



Sky Blue Sky, Wilco

Homemade Business Cards

I have some SUPER exciting news! I'm going to the National Stationery Show this weekend!!! You have to understand, this is like Christmas for me - and what's even better, I'll be staying with one of my very best friends who I haven't hugged in years. Permanent smile on this face. So, after I found out I was able to go, I realized I didn't have any company business cards to hand out! I've been working up some good ideas that we plan to letterpress, but the time just wasn't there to rush it (plus letterpress rushed never sounds like a good idea, anyway). I had to figure something out, so I turned to the stack of Neenah Desert Storm 120# cardstock we have sitting in our conference room... and this is what I did with it.

Once I got my concept for the card together, I created an 8 up of the front and back of the card and printed with a regular inkjet on an 8.5"x11" sheet of the stock. Then came the cutting..a Husky utility knife has been my knife of choice since art school - and in my opinion, soooo much safer than those silly x-actos.



Once that was done, I put a small notch on the left side of each one for the info label that was going to wrap around it.



Next came the label printing. To make each label like a sticker, I used 3M positionable mount adhesive, which is basically spray mount without the spray. It comes in a big roll which, once unrolled is sticky on one side. You put what you want on it, get it good and stuck, then peel the backing off and poof! you've got yourself a sticker. This is the exact kind I used in case you want to try it out :)



To add an extra bit of subtle detail, I ran some silver around all of the edges of the card and label using a sharpie silver poster marker.



Next, I peeled the backings off of my label 'stickers' and began sticking! And here are the results:









Phew! Officially ready for the show :)

TypeOh! Tuesday #50

Happy 50th Tuesday! Almost an entire year of TypeOh!s, kind of hard to believe. About 6 months ago, my friend Mark introduced me to The National, promising that their Alligator cd was among his top favorites. I gave it an honest listen, and had to agree with him. Because my 'honest listen' turned into about a month straight on repeat in my car and while I created at home, I was due for a bit of a break until I had revisited the album a few weeks ago. I had the cd going in my car at the end of last week, and after I took my exit off the interstate, I was kind of in a daydream as I waited for the green light. The very end of The Geese of Beverly Road was playing, and I caught the last lyric in time to process it and have one of those, 'whoa, that was pretty nice!' moments. I backed the track up, and sure enough, the last lyric was what I thought: serve me the sky with a big slice of lemon. Crazy how I hadn't noticed it before. The imagery was too awesome to pass up, hence this week's type..and if you want to give the full track a listen, the song is below :)