Process

On Friday morning I met with Michelle, Jessie, and Erin to create thank you cards for the artist’s who donated work to the BICAS auction. Our plan was to make post cards out of index cards with rubber block printed designs on the front. I have never done block printing before and did not feel creative enough to make my own block to print. I ended up printing “thank you” blocks that Casey had lent us to use. After Michelle’s demo of how a print is made, we rapidly began printing. We quickly realized that the “thank you” block I was printing was a little too plane and impersonal, so Michelle carved a bike wheel block as the rest of us continued printing. Then we placed the wheel between the “thank” and the “you” and the cards looked great! I think it was a great idea for use to make these cards for the artist’s, and hopefully it will encourage them to submit work again next year. It was a fun and easy thing that we did to help BICAS with little need of assistance or instruction from them. Hopefully we will be able to obtain the list of donators soon so we can begin to write the thank you notes and send them out shortly after the auction. Ihad fun learning this new technique!