29/05/2026
It’s almost a month since Metzli was born 🌙 and I wanted to share the process of designing & printing our baby announcement card (geboorte kaartje) with riso ☺️✨
Starting from an original watercolour painting, the goal was to translate the soft colour blends and textures into a Risograph print.
Technically, it was challenging, as it was important to balance 4 Riso colours, colour mixing, and alignment throughout the printing process, all on beautiful Satogami paper. (Thanks riso team that took on the challenge of printing this for me as I recovered! 🙌🏽)
The making of it also took much longer than expected, mostly because my hands became very swollen during the final weeks of pregnancy, 😔making drawing and preparing the files harder than usual. (Shout out to Rodrigo .a______r.a who helped me with file prep💜)
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Baby announcement cards in the Netherlands are tradition: a small introduction to welcome a new family member and in my opinion a lovely memento of that rollercoaster period 😬
