CrownJewel
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Hi everyone. I totally forgot to post photos of my invitations. They were way behind schedule, but I finished them anyway. It was really important to me for the actual invitation to be letterpressed. Thanks to Future Mrs. Polka Dot, I discovered Mercurio Brothers who had a fantastic price for custom letterpress. They were lightning fast and were so wonderful to work with. I just sent them my design as an Illustrator file. I''ve never used Illustrator before, so I had to call up friends and ended up using my former boss'' program. It was pretty easy to use (I had prior experience with Photoshop). You can actually download a free 30 day trial from the adobe website.
I had some motifs that were significant to my fiance and me - fleur de lys, a compass rose, and feathers. The tough part was how to incorporate it all into an invitation suite without going overboard (and on a budget, and tight timeline).
I bought a Gocoo for about $100 and paper from Paper Presentation (thanks Karasue!). Three tubes of ink (purple, rose, brown) cost like $12 total and I still have half of each tube left. I printed about 75 RSVP envelopes, 75 RSVP cards, 75 info cards with my Gocco. I printed the maps with my laser printer. I printed the address labels with my laser printer and made them into stickers with a Xyron 900.
Final step was to find a way of preventing the laser printer ink from rubbing off (unfortunately, it was rubbing off the maps onto the back of the invitation). The night that I was supposed to go to the paper shop for tissue paper, I had to stay late at work so the shop closed by the time I got out. I rummaged through my apartment for other possibilities, and realized that I had a spool of green tulle (um, from Christmas gift wrapping supplies). It cut well and worked perfectly. It also represents my love for fabrics, and is more personal than tissue paper (not that this part of the invitation needs to be personal at all). The color was totally not part of my color scheme...but I just wanted to get the invitations out.
Here are some photos:
I had some motifs that were significant to my fiance and me - fleur de lys, a compass rose, and feathers. The tough part was how to incorporate it all into an invitation suite without going overboard (and on a budget, and tight timeline).
I bought a Gocoo for about $100 and paper from Paper Presentation (thanks Karasue!). Three tubes of ink (purple, rose, brown) cost like $12 total and I still have half of each tube left. I printed about 75 RSVP envelopes, 75 RSVP cards, 75 info cards with my Gocco. I printed the maps with my laser printer. I printed the address labels with my laser printer and made them into stickers with a Xyron 900.
Final step was to find a way of preventing the laser printer ink from rubbing off (unfortunately, it was rubbing off the maps onto the back of the invitation). The night that I was supposed to go to the paper shop for tissue paper, I had to stay late at work so the shop closed by the time I got out. I rummaged through my apartment for other possibilities, and realized that I had a spool of green tulle (um, from Christmas gift wrapping supplies). It cut well and worked perfectly. It also represents my love for fabrics, and is more personal than tissue paper (not that this part of the invitation needs to be personal at all). The color was totally not part of my color scheme...but I just wanted to get the invitations out.
Here are some photos:
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