This meant I could see if I had a consistency of style and visual quality across the briefs too. It also gave me a good idea of how these would stand against each other in a shop or in the end of year show. It is nice to see typography cards against illustrated character cards and them actually working together as a set.
Problems
- cutting down - I didn't put any crop marks on the cards stupidly so it was a nightmare to trim them all the same size. The cards with patterns around had white spaces left where I could trim but with the white cards I was sort of doing it blind
- wrong size - I printed out the wrong size! I bought A6 envelopes but printed the cards (costing me 22.50!) in A5. So it was a mad dash to find some A5 envelopes. I couldn't find greetings card ones so had to settle for plain envelopes
- Ordered A6 plastic covers off Amazon for the cards! My cards are A5! It would take too long for any more to be delivered before the deadline. At least I know for future.
Good stuff
- bone folder - this works magic on gloss but not so much on matte it kind of ruined the designs sometimes, marking them
- gloss or matte - I printed on both and decided gloss worked really well! Matte would get dirty easily and especially for a white card (and me being messy) I thought that was a bad idea. Gloss gives it a more proffesional finish
For submission I split the cards up into two folders, one with the matte testers and one with the gloss finals. Overall I am pleased with the gloss final designs I think I am well on my way to mastering cards. I just need to really nail the packaging side of things now, getting the right envelopes, putting them into plastic packets.
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