And Now, I Proudly Present To You ..... MY INVITATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (with pics inside)

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Posted by colleen1117

oh my everliving lollipops!!!! these are INCREDIBLE!!!!!
you did these yourself!??!?!?!? any tips on the process? i'm a scrapbooker so i'm wanting to make my own. what card stock did you use? where did you get the boxes!!!
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT!!!

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Posted by PreshusSmurf

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Posted by colleen1117

oh my everliving lollipops!!!! these are INCREDIBLE!!!!!
you did these yourself!??!?!?!? any tips on the process? i'm a scrapbooker so i'm wanting to make my own. what card stock did you use? where did you get the boxes!!!
EXCELLENT EXCELLENT!!!

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The cardstocks I used are sold by Envelopments, some are stardream, some are their standard colors.

And YES, other than the thermography printing, I made them completely by myself ... including sending the layout for the copy to the printing manufacturer

It took a lot of time, a ton of patience, and a perfectionist spirit.

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Posted by PreshusSmurf

I wanted to share these with the DIY Brides too ....

This project truly was the hardest part of wedding planning for me. I grew up with invitations, my parents had a business in Brooklyn all throughout my childhood, so stationery has always meant something to me. Even more so now, since it is my own chosen profession.

I must have looked through 100 different invitation albums, and even went to an industry trade show looking for new manufacturers because I initially didn't want the added stress of making my own invites. Nothing I saw really grabbed my attention. In the end I am glad I did them on my own though.

It took me forever to make all the final decisions, and I did run into some bumps along the way and have to come up with a 'plan b' .... but the end result was that my invites came out better than I ever could have dreamed or imagined.

Even though I sell invitations for a living, these really were a DIY project in a sense because I made them with my own 2 hands. I used one of my most trusted manufacturers to do the thermography printing and create the bottom layer of the invitations which is a chocolate brown beveled edge, and I purchased the chocolate brown boxes .... everything else was created by ME!

They were a labor of love, and what better way to invite all my nearest and dearest to a celebration of the love my FH & I share?!

So ..... here they are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I knew even before I was engaged that I would want hand calligraphy used to address my invitations. There is something so elegant, traditional and timeless about having them addressed to guests by hand. (Yes, that's $2 in postage !)




And they had to be mailed in a box!







I created a pocket inside the lid of the box to hold the inserts:




All the inserts:




This is the best pic I could take to show the bow with rhinestone and the thickness of the invite itself:

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Posted by ShiraLovesTommy

How much did it cost you to make your own invites???

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