Baby's First Gocco

I ordered a gocco two months ago and it's been burning a hole in my creative pocket ever since. Andy's off to the races tonight, so I took advantage of the very rare several waking hours home alone to try my first gocco project. I thought that it best that my trial run be solo (i.e., I didn't want him to be here if I got gold ink all over his pub table or rug.)

Anyway, I can't show you what I made because it's a reproduction of a card that I bought somewhere. I only selected it because it looked like it would be easy to practice with. Even though I'm not selling them, I don't want to suffer any wrath or hurt any feelings. Here's how it turned out:

• I looked down at the gocco as I was burning the screen and my eyeballs are still hurting two and a half hours later.


• I used a photocopy of the print, per the videos that I watched online, and some paper stuck to the screen. Unfortunately, it's a silhouette image so the spot makes it look like she has a hickey. When I tried filling it in by hand, it looked like she tried covering up her hickey with the wrong color makeup. I am going to pretend that the bare spot makes it look "vintage."


• Cleaning the screen was a HUGE NIGHTMARE MISTAKE. I found some directions online and it did not go as smoothly as the author said. She listed her "total expenditures" as three minutes, little bit of Riso cleaner, and 2 napkins." I went through a bunch of Riso cleaner, half a roll of paper towels, two plastic knives, a stack of Garrett's Popcorn napkins, and I still ended up with an unusable screen and gold hands.

I've decided that I'd sooner prostitute myself to earn money to buy invitations than pull a Weddingbee and gocco print my entire invitation suite. I think that I am a (Have Someone) DI4Y-er.