Vellum Questions

I bought a few pieces of Vellum from Micheal's the other day to try and make the votive place cards. But I am having a few problems.

Is there a right and wrong side to the vellum??

It seems that after I print it on the ink jet printer it bleeds. Also even after sitting for a few hours it still smears a bit and I am afraid it is going to smear even more once the heat gets to it.

I was also going to do my menu's with it. Can you put the Vellum through a copy machine or will it melt it? I was thinking of making one good copy of it and then taking it to kinko's and copying it.

I kinda want to come up with a good solution to this problem before I buy the rest of the paper and spend more money as it is I already bout 100 votive holders and tea lights (which got way to hot) then bought resturant style votives so they dont get hot.

It is getting to be a bigger project than I first expected.

I also bought the votives and tea lights and didn't think to test and see how hot they got. Good idea!

I would try and see if you could find vellum made specifically for ink jet printers. Do you have access to a laser printer?

Can I ask how you are doing the setup for the vellum on the votives. I have no idea how to do it.

Definitely get ink jet vellum - they have them at Staples 50 sheets for $10.

Also set the printer properties for a longer drying time and then lay it on the table for a while before you touch it so the ink can thoroughly dry.

Thanks for your help girls... I was actually looking at purchasing Vellum that had snowflakes on it but it didnt say if it was for laser or ink jet printers which is why I was kinda hestating on buying it.


As for the votive holders I went on a wordprocessing program and played around with it for a while. I kind figured that each votive was 2 1/2 inches tall and went a little less than half of that so that I could center it on two lines. I fit about 4 on a page and then cut them with a paper cutter to get it exact. The only thing is you have to use kinda a smaller font than you would think b/c large names wrap around the candle and you really can't read them.
It took me a good 1/2 hour of playing around with the measurements to get it right and go figure we lost power while I was doing it and never got it to save.

As for the candles the tea lights got too hot way too fast and actually melted the double sided tape on the glass. I bought resturant quality votives on e bay they are suppose to last 10 hours but they are shorter so they fit and the flame won't come over the top of the glass. The glass didnt get hot. With the tea lights after about 15-20 min they were so hot you couldnt touch them.

Ok I think that concluded my candle lesson.