Trading Cards
Love to shrink wrap
Gives me a thrill to finish off the boxes. So much hand work goes into one, and there is such a feeling of satisfaction when each gets it’s shiny coating. Almost done with the second wave, finished up to 167 today.
Suckpax 2 prototype box
Just made up a prototype of the Suckpax Action Art Cards series 2 box!
SDCC Scavenger success story
Over on the Scoundrel message board user mgeo chronicles his experience in completing the SDCC scavenger hunt.
Second wave begun
We’re building the second wave of 100 boxes.
Collating cards for boxes 101-200.
boxes 101 to 107.
The Art Hustle box building
Boxes were printed, and I then drove the stack of printed sheets to our Die cutter. This was my first time designing a die-cut pattern, and it worked out great. I made the die cutter nervous, because I ran the total job out of order. Normally, the die-cut pattern is made first, a die created, and it is tested with blank sheets. A low pressure sheet is done, so that it has creases instead of cuts. This creased sheet is then sent along with artwork to the printer, who uses both to position the artwork within the rectangular finished sheets. I did this out of sequence, in that the artwork was printed onto stock sheets, and the die-cut created independently. We skipped the test run, and positioning stage. All bets were off if it would come together. I was confident it would work, and in the end, it was fine.
Back at the Lab, we number stamp each box. Promo boxes are numbered also, but are also labeled PROMO in green near the number.
Actual cards are glued to the tops of the boxes, one of the above 15. There are 20 boxes for each card.
Finally, we fold and glue the four corners of each box.
10 packs of glued, flattened boxes.
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