Need help with my invites--help

[LadyCheese]

Hi all...many (many) of you are so creative and always have good suggestions so here I am asking for some help, if anyone's up for it. I am making my own invitations using a petal envelope and 3 flat cards on the inside....one flat card is brown and the other flat card is light blue (I cut it down a little so you can see the brown peeping from behind) and the 3rd card is a metallic white--which is the one I'm using to write the invite info on. This card is approximately 5x5, not much room to work with. This is my verse:

 

Because you have shared in their lives

by your friendship and love

you are invited to share

with our daughter,

 

Jessica Torres

and

Dominique Rodrigue

 

when they exchange marriage vows

and begin their new life together

on November 22, 2008

at 4:00pm

Dreams Resort

Punta Cana, Dominican Republic

 

Mr. & Mrs. Angel Torres

I used Chopin Script for our names but the spacing just seems off...and I wanted to have a pretty, swirly ampersand (in light blue) in between our names but I cant seem to do it right or create something eye-catching. The rest of the wording is in the Flourish font. I'm using Word (dont know if this is the issue with spacing, etc)...any suggestions would be gladly appreciated...so sorry this is lengthy. TIA!!

[Maura]

jessica, can you email me your word doc? let me see if i can work something with it -- mauracwall @ gmail dot com

 

also email me the chopin font as a ttf file

[Sarah]

Hey jessica,

 

Is this the type of flourish ampersand you're looking for? Here's a jpg of something I just whipped up really quick. If you want it I can email the file to you...

 

[jamisoncollette]

Sarah you are so good! That looks beautiful!

[LadyCheese]

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Originally Posted by Sarah Hey jessica, Is this the type of flourish ampersand you're looking for? Here's a jpg of something I just whipped up really quick. If you want it I can email the file to you...

Yes Sarah, thats exactly what I was looking for. I will PM you with my email address. Thx a bunch.

[LadyCheese]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maura jessica, can you email me your word doc? let me see if i can work something with it -- mauracwall @ gmail dot com also email me the chopin font as a ttf file

Gracias Maura!

[Yari]

So pretty!!! Sarah is so awesome.

[Maura]

haha sarah beat me to it -- i used exactly the same fonts

 

sarah, what size fonts did you use to get it to fit on the 5x5 card? i had to play with it quite a bit

[Sarah]

I actually made it in my FotoFusion program and the font sizes there aren't the same as in Word or Powerpoint. I basically just created a 5x5 canvas, then a couple text boxes, copy/pasted her text and hit a button to size it to the box. It seriously took me like 5 minutes for the whole thing... I love that program!

[Maura]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sarah I actually made it in my FotoFusion program and the font sizes there aren't the same as in Word or Powerpoint. I basically just created a 5x5 canvas, then a couple text boxes, copy/pasted her text and hit a button to size it to the box. It seriously took me like 5 minutes for the whole thing... I love that program!

nice! is it an expensive program?