Being on a really tight budget totally sucks doesn’t it? Even more so when you’re in the business of self-promoting. Since I realized I can’t afford to pay for new prints every time I need to send out mailers, I decided to have a go at making them myself. Which was quite a daring move for someone who if asked to cut a straight line it’ll end up looking like a map of Lombard St. in San Francisco.
My office is pretty stocked up with all types of paper and last year I bought an Epson Workforce 500, which is a good printer but really drinks up its ink pretty fast…I’m sure there are plenty of better printers out there.
I actually had a lot of fun doing this. I started off printing my fishy monster on a 6×9 envelope and with that I also printed out some stickers shaped like cloudy bubbles with mailing addresses on them. I made them stickers incase I decided not to send it to the company I wouldn’t feel bad about wasting an envelope. Can’t waste paper!
After the envelope and mailing sticker labels I had to plan out an execution for the actual samples and since I’m making them myself I decided to have a little bit of fun with this:
Step 1: Marinating The Meat
I chose some work to print on an 8.5×11 card stock front and back, this would be my main sample so I made sure to include my information in every nook and cranny (tastefully of course…)
Step 2: Cooking The Meat
I folded the sample set four ways so that it would have a front, interiors, and a back. Yes like a card.
Step 3: Creating the Meat Tray
On an 8.5×11 card stock again, I printed out the little case in which I would place my samples in, I also used it to print out my letter of introduction. I then cut the paper in half – 5.5×8.5 – so that I can
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