Breather

Well, the past 3 nights have been about taking the 400 prints, signing and numbering, hand embossing and hand rounding corners on each of the prints. What I found was that embossing an 18pt. thick paper is much harder than a 100lb. thick paper stock. MUCH harder. It was way harder to get the enfu emboss to stick out, I had to do multiple squeezes as hard as I could to get it to look good. To top off all the red palmness I got from squeezing the heck out of the embosser, my thumbs were numb pressing the corner rounder stamper. I had to physically rest my fingers after each and every print. After a couple prints and figuring out I couldn't physically accomplish this amount of prints at this rate, I took a rubbery tape measure in my hand, placed it in between the button I had to push down and my hand, so I didn't have to strain my fingers. This worked really well, which made me able to push the button without putting so much weight on my fingers.
I found a nice milk crate which fit all my prints perfectly and made my own print stack library thingy. Awesome....looking at that stack of packaged prints made me feel a sense of real accomplishment.
Now that I've gone through this process for the 3rd time, I feel like I've gotten what I need to know out of this process and am able to completely free up my mind space for letting more creative ideas occupy my head before it gets commited on paper.
I'll be taking a breather before I print my next batch of prints.

To give you guys a hint of what I'm thinking about next:
5-8 pieces that go together, all vehicles in my head on greenish paper, using some metalic inks. This will be a test to see if I can really get a cohesive look down which will tie all the pieces together. I'm up for the challenge.

This is the most fun part of Enfu. Transfering what I see in my mind's eye to a physical manisfestation of a print which I can share with many people.

"Gnomuki", "Denshin Poles", "Enfoodle" done!

So the prints were done late last week and I finished signing and numbering all 400+ prints. I thought my hand hurt till I started hand stamping all 400+ prints with the enfu logo. ...sheesh...that was a lot of work. Then I rounded the corners of the mini prints (with the 1" border vs. the 2" border ones) with a corner rounder thingy...but since the stock was a heavy 18 pt. thickness it was really really hard to do. So my hand hurt like a *****.
They are looking real sweet if I say so myself..and since they are a bit smaller than the first two prints they will be a bit cheaper:
"Gnomuki": $40
"Denshin Poles": $50
"Enfoodle": $40
I also finished up the certificates of authenticity yesterday for the 3 prints. Now I'm waiting for the vinyl envelopes to stuff the prints in to complete the package and I'll be ready to update the main site!
The prints mainly come with a 2" border around, but a 1" border was made for half of the Gnomuki and half of Denshin Poles. This 1" border version will have the rounded corners and I'm planning on having these ones available only through my online store, and have the 2" ones available at boutiques.