{"id":1033,"date":"2016-08-15T23:29:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2016-08-15T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T13:59:54","slug":"experiments-in-printmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/experiments-in-printmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiments in Printmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, I&#8217;ve been making my own business cards. I like making my own cards as I&#8217;m able to make them with paper of my choice &#8211; usually a watercolour paper. This means I can give away little watercolour sketches or scribbles.<\/p>\n<p>However as of late my printer has not been sealing the toner very well on the watercolour stock, so the prints have been coming out rather poorly. So I thought I&#8217;d have a go at engraving plates using my laser cutting machine and taking relief prints off those plates. I&#8217;ve had pretty mixed results so far. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;ll work in the long run for something like business cards, but I&#8217;m interested now to see about making gift cards or similar using the same ideas.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1034\" src=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/printmaking-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"printmaking\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/printmaking-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/printmaking-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/printmaking-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while now, I&#8217;ve been making my own business cards. I like making my own cards as I&#8217;m able to make them with paper of my choice &#8211; usually a watercolour paper. This means I can give away little watercolour sketches or scribbles. However as of late my printer has not been sealing the &#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/experiments-in-printmaking\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[190,400,401],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-1033","6":"format-image","7":"category-lasering","8":"post_tag-blaugust","9":"post_tag-printmaking","10":"post_tag-relief-print","11":"post_format-post-format-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale.chenonetta.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}