Pocketfold - Invitations

Does anyone know where I can get these pocketfold/Envelopments invitations at a good price? They seem to be a little expensive. Below is a link to samples of pocketfolds! Thanks

http://www.envelopments.com/products/pocketfolds/?sample=4

Are you looking to buy the supplies and put it together yourself?

If so, I'm doing DIY pocketfolds invites, and bought everything at a great price from www.stylishpaper.com

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Posted by ChristineAE

Are you looking to buy the supplies and put it together yourself?

If so, I'm doing DIY pocketfolds invites, and bought everything at a great price from www.stylishpaper.com

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Christine,

what is the difference in price vs. DIY and buying them?

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Posted by enjft

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Posted by ChristineAE

Are you looking to buy the supplies and put it together yourself?

If so, I'm doing DIY pocketfolds invites, and bought everything at a great price from www.stylishpaper.com

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Christine,

what is the difference in price vs. DIY and buying them?

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for me: 100 invites - difference is $350!!!!!!

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Posted by ChristineAE

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Posted by enjft

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Posted by ChristineAE

Are you looking to buy the supplies and put it together yourself?

If so, I'm doing DIY pocketfolds invites, and bought everything at a great price from www.stylishpaper.com

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Christine,

what is the difference in price vs. DIY and buying them?

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for me: 100 invites - difference is $350!!!!!!

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That is awesome, please keep me posted.

I did 4x9 pocketfolds, DIY. I got the pocketfolds and the cardstock to make the 'mat' layer, precut from stylishpaper.com. It was the cheapest I found, they came fast, and were perfect. I used cardstock I purchased at the paper zone (a local store) for the invite layer and RSVP cards and got matching envelopes for the invite and the RSVPs. The cardstock was ~25 for a ream (will use for other projects as well) and the envelopes were reasnable (I forget the actual prices). I also bought a ream of matching 24 lb paper (about 20 bucks) that I used to make the direction cards from. The paper and cardstock were very high quality and all the whites matched (this is very important to me. Probably no one else noticed)

I did all the wording and layout.
Had the invite and RSVP card printed at a shop that did thermography, 2 colors. They also did the return addresses on the outer envelopes and the front address on the RSVP envelopes. They cut all the cardstock to size.

I designed and printed the Directions on my printer and had them cut to size at kinkos (cost me 8 bucks). I folded them myself (used a bone folder which is an awesome little tool).

I addressed the invites on my printer.

I cut my own tissue with a rotary cutter.

I assembled all the layers using Tombow mono adhesive and stuffed the pockets. Sealed the pocketfold with a wax seal. Stuffed the envelopes.

For 150 invites, plus plenty of leftover paper and materials, it cost me about $600, a weekend, and a bunch of evenings after work. This doesn't include postage.

Hope this helps! My invites are out and I am getting SO many compliments. I was really happy with them and it was really cool to send out something that I designed and made (mostly) myself.

ETA: I don't know how much it would have cost to have someone else do them. THe only 'commercially available' invites I found that I somewhat liked were would have cost me over 1500 bucks, and would not have been as unique as mine.

hi, do you mind showing pictures of the invites? they sound beautiful.

DIY that I made - just a sample...still want to fix a few things:

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Posted by ChristineAE

DIY that I made - just a sample...still want to fix a few things:

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They look better than what you were going to get! So can I hire ya?

there are also two knotties who can make the pocketfold invites for under $4 for ya:

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http://monogramsbydesign.homestead.com/index.html