This week's card is the Guggenheim card from the NY series mentioned last Monday. This is another Gocco printed card with the same Duplex style card stock. This has a chartreuse exterior and a magenta interior. The interior is left blank for personal customization.
For those who don't know, Gocco printing is a home based screen printing method made famous in Japan. Every New Years, Japanese people send out well wishes for the new year by sending handmade (or store bought) postcards commemorating the new year. The screens are exposed using old bulb technology (similar to the bulbs used in old Poloraid cameras). The screens are inked with the color(s) of your choice and you press the ink through the screen (rather than draw it through like traditional screen printing) onto the surface of your choice.
The difficulty of Gocco printing is that materials are no longer being made so people are scrambling to find alternative materials. The bulbs are no longer made so people are using thermofax technology to print screens. If you are a craft hoarder like me, you can judiciously use the materials you have on hand in hopes that things will work out.
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