Finally, invites are done/mailed! (long with pics)

I finally finished my invites! Like Galit mentioned in her invite thread, I feel as though I’ve been working for more than 6 months! They were hell to make but well worth it. I’m very excited at the end result! My BM’s got together on Friday night and helped me glue all the inserts and assemble the invites (and along with a few glasses of wine) we had a blast! My stamps came in on Saturday so Sunday I addressed, stamped, wrapped and finised all my invites!

Any how, I’ll try and be as detailed as possible

Supplies:

Discount Wedding Invitations, Vellum Paper, Vellum Envelopes, Card Stock Source - Paperandmore.com Pearl White Text Paper, Bronze Cardstock, Aqua Lagoon Cardstock, No. 10 #10 Pearl White Metallic Envelopes, 4 Bar Green Fairway Metallic Envelope

Welcome to Kelly Paper Kiwi Iridescent Cover (belly band)

quote: Que este sea nuestro destino, para el amor, para comenzar a vivir cada Nuevo día para compartir nuestras vidas para siempre.

Adhesive: Double stick tape, permanent adhesive roller and permanent glue dots

Simple paper trimmer/scoring blade

FiskarsCrafts.com A new way to look at crafting online!

and heavy duty Fiskar’s Rotary Trimmer (can’t find link)

At home printer: HP Color Laser Jet

Programs: MS Publisher and Photoshop

Clip Art

Flower Graphics provided by KellyMN. I played with her template on Photoshop and was able to manipulate the color/size. Thanks Kelly!

Shell (on main insert) KR Down by the Sea

Fonts:

Script: Carpenter ICG and Helinda Rook

Block: Episode I

Pocket Fold Template http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~rmlachance/pktemplates.htm

This website provides a ton of different DIY pocket folds. I was trying to save money wanted to make a pocket fold out of an 8 ½ by 11 sheet and also wanted it to fit in a No. 10 envelope since I’ve read that it costs more to mail certain shaped envelopes. http://faculty.salisbury.edu/~rmlachance/images/templates/4x9horz.gif Or see my template attached (I tweaked it a bit)

Stamps.com ($$ even w/ a Costco discount) but nice touch, in my opinion! I ended up spending about $120 on stamps alone and these were mainly for response envelopes. I decided to hand out as many as possible to save costs on stamps!

I made 2. The green stamp was for the main envelope, the brown for the small rsvp.

A few hiccups:

-My printer doesn’t grab 4 bar envelopes, so I had to tape each one on a full sheet of paper to print.

-My printer doesn’t grab cardstock so I had to feed each blue sheet trough the feeder.

-I ran out of envelopes so I decided to add a simple card with the guests names to a few invites that were going to be hand delivered or mailed in bulk to one addy (out of the U.S.)

-I forgot that it can take weeks for mail to get back from out of the country so I decided to glue an insert on the back of the RSVP card requesting guests to respond online. (no pic sorry)

-the card pockets were ungluing (roller adhesive) so we moved to tape. I later realized that you need glue both sides so that the glue can grasp, if not it slides off the metallic paper.

I think I like yours more than my own!!! Those area amazing.

WOW - All that work paid off! They look beautiful. Your guests are going to love them!

they look fantastic! wow, that is a lot of work...is this what i have to look forward too!!??

congratulations you did a great job!!

Wow they look amazing! Such a helpful guide too. I have all your fonts now Carpenter has been on of my favorites since you first posted it.

They look soooooo good!!!!! That should be you job. Charging tons of money for those.

Those are sooo nice! Your guests are definately going to love them!

amy, these are seriously some of the most beautiful invitations ive EVER seen. congrats to you on a job so well done, i am so impressed!

Wow! Thank you ladies! I can say I worked VERY hard on these. FI was fed up with it all, but in the end he even said that he didn't want to hand them out in fear that they'd end up in the trash.

Its really a variation of invites I've seen on the forum. I fell in love with Anny's passports but knew I couldn't pull those off. KarlaV's invites were amazing too, but I didn't want to copy her design. I am so thankful that Kelley provided me with her template. I was looking everywhere for flowers like hers, but was ready to settle with another font/dingbat I found.