Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Invitations

I decided to make my own invitations because I had a vision of how I wanted them to look, which was apparently extremely expensive when I started shopping around. I spent a lot of time learning how to use powerpoint to make them, but I'm really happy with how they turned out!






Invitation and Response Card

I purchased the flourish as a jpeg at the top of the invitation from an etsy retailer instead of an entire invitation. I just sent her a message and she was very helpful!

The paper is from paperandmore.com. I used this for the invitation and response card and this for the backer because I liked the textural differences.  I also ordered my envelopes from there as well!

I downloaded fonts on dafont.com for free and used the fonts than came with microsoft office.

I had everything printed and cut out at postnet which was super affordable, ended up costing about $78 for printing.

I spent a couple days and a couple glue sticks gluing everything together during my winter break. I used a book on top of the glued cards to help cement it. Sorry the color is off in the invitation picture, the response cards on the top are the accurate colors.





Sorry the color is a little off!

Belly Band and Ribbon
Once I got all the invitations and response cards glued, I made the belly bands. I had a hard time finding the right lace to put around it because I thought the white lace clashed with the pearlescent paper. Then I hit the jackpot! This lace hem facing happened to match exactly to my navy backers and looked fantastic. Joann's had the best price on the hem facing and always have 40% off coupons which is what I did to purchase it. I also found the silver accent ribbon at Joann's. The best way to attach the hem facing was just to use a little bit of dark tape or clear tape on the back. I tried a million ways of gluing it because I didn't like the tape, but it really didn't work.

















Envelope
I used a font from dafont.com and printed all my envelopes at home. I then got an embosser for my bridal shower to emboss the back with my return address to give it a more regale touch. This took a long time to do with my home printer, so just be weary. A lot of them jammed too. I almost lost my mind a little, but I really wanted the font I chose so I completed them.


After traveling across the country in my suitcase






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