Bon Vivant Press

With New Moon from the Twilight saga coming out this weekend, it was only appropriate that we featured Evangilynn’s “Twilight 21″ Holiday Masquerade invitations. Evangilynn is a huge fan of the Twilight series and wanted to throw a fun 21st birthday bash in “vampiric” fashion. We created a custom crest for Evangilynn, similar to the Volturi crest worn by the Volturi family in the movie. The invitations were three coloured and printed on Crane’s Lettra #110 in Fluorescent White.

Tip: If you have a design that has a solid block of black, adding either red or reflex blue to the black ink will make it print darker. This helps to minimize the “graying” effect that typically happens with black ink. In this run, we added a little bit of red ink to the black. Another option that can be done is to dampen the paper to absorb the black ink better, this also allows the use of less ink. There are different ways this can be done. One way is to wet every other sheet of paper in the stack and place into a plastic bag overnight. Another way is to create a box and use a humidor to dampen the paper.