Trading Cards
Suckpax 2 gum
Sheets of gum, screened with logo and drying.
The screen for printing the gum. A local screen printing company, Initial Ideas Inc of Rutland VT, gave me expert help in burning the screen. And then they rescued me when I clogged the screen on my first print run. Thanks to Peter for his help.
Suckpax 2 Rejected cards
I tossed a batch of misprinted cards to The Sucklord, and he specifically chose ones he liked to be stamped “REJECTED”. He then went and did the stamping himself. Got a little carried away on some, with multiple stampings on one card.
Suckpax 2 costume card fabrication
We are making up the Mary Papers costume card. The wife beater she wore posing for the photo has been cut up into small squares, and a hole punched in the front cards. A jig is used to align the fronts and backs for glueing. Rittenhouse Archives gave me essential advice on construction of costume cards. We put it to use, and it saved a lot of time, and gave superior results. Thanks!
Rolling the glued cards.
My Dads record collection accepted for Distroboto
After a long delay, I received an acceptance from Distroboto in Montreal for the trading card series “My Dad’s record collection”. I had sent them samples months ago, but it was to an out-of-date address. Louis at Distroboto really got into the cards, and I brought up 50 packs to see how they will sell via his machines. Louis has converted cigarette vending machines to vend art.
I got a surprising kick out of delivering the packs to him in Montreal. He was appreciative of them, but beyond that, I got a buzz off of the experience. These were a creation completely my own. It must be similar to the feeling an artist gets delivering finished pieces to a gallery.
Backs of the cards getting the first stamping.
Stamping the boxes. Distroboto does not need the outer boxes, but I felt the need to do them up. Future distribution through other venues will probably require boxing. It was fun to design and make them. And I felt an increased pride in my work with the boxes.
I have a few hundred blank white boxes for just such purposes. It is our standard 24 pack box, and when we did our last die-cutting for Suckpax 2, I had blank white ones cut also.
The cards themselves are cut up albums. It is surprising what happens when you slice up a large design into small pieces. The small framed sub-set piece of an image, randomly generated, can be very interesting. I go through the hundreds of pieces, and sort them into 4 piles: “A” or best images, which are faces or just fun; “B” images, which are intriguing; Text only sections; and solids or blanks. The wrappers are made up from the inner sleeves. Packs are made up of a mix of both A and B cards.
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