Labels tomorrow – We hope

The first lot of labels for our paint cans are to be delivered tomorrow. They were supposed to be delivered today along with another proof but the press was down  – all day.

We’ve look at what seems like hundreds of different combinations of adhesive, self adhesive, full wrap, no wrap. Full colour, 4 colour? Self adhesive or no adhesive. Prit stick, Bostick, Recycled 100gsm, 115gsm, 140gsm, matt, gloss. Die cut? or we cut.

We went for the die cut, it saves us cutting 800 (or more) slots around handles.  Self adhesive on some and we adhesive on others. Colour on some.

Tomorrow we are going to begin the wrapping and sticking process, times what seems like a gillion cans. Right now I’m just worried that the 2mm printing industry tolerance for trimming means that they’ll wrap properly.

What colour is a flour sack?

So folks what colour is a flour sack?
Flour sack is the name of one of our colours in the Mr & Mrs White family. (These neutrals that are not the norm.) My current mix has turned out too green. Colour names often bring something to life in your imagination. This greenish mix has comepletely stumped me.

So I’ve had to dig out a roll of hessian from our shed, since I don’t have an actual flour sack as a colour reference. I know flour sacks weren’t made out of hessian (in the US it’s called burlap), but this has definitely given me a reference that is out there in the real world. I need to make my colour more golden and definitely paler for the colour card. Hopefully it’ll be something that bridges the flour sack/ burlap hessian world, and is a golden colour that our neutrals colours family needs.

I asked my son what colour he thought a flour sack was and he said red, then I asked my husband and he said grey. hmmm…..  what colour is a flour sack?

Painting colour charts

The colour cards were delivered on Friday and we’ve had our first crack at painting them.
We started with the Shade card and had a stab at some of the others. It takes 5 teenagers dabbing away I figure well over 2000 times to get this far, probably only 10,000 more dabs to go for our paint launch. It is fun for a while, but maybe when we are at dab 9,999 it might seem kind of “old”. I’ll let you know.

Providence Paint Launch

We will be launching our paint in 1 months time.

Everyone’s invited, Saturday, July 5, 2008

come to our shop at Burwash Manor.

You will be able to see the new colours, learn about our colour families, and collect colour cards.

We’ll also be serving Dell’s lemonade. You’ll learn more about that when you come to the shop.