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Mrs. Licorice, Atlanta Age and Occupation: 25, Full-time Interior Design Student Fiance's Age and Occupation: 25, Pilot Engagement Date: February 6, 2006 Wedding Date: September 1, 2007 Blogging Since: July 18, 2007 Venue: John Oliver Michael, a historic farm house and barn replica About Me: I love artistic pursuits of all sorts! I'm creative and organized, but my downfall is obsessing over details. I enjoy running outdoors, trying new restaurants, and staring at décor and wedding magazines for hours on end. I hope to one day design a hotel in a foreign country, preferably France, Greece, Japan, or Australia. I am elated to marry Mr. Licorice and experience life’s adventures with him!
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Adventures in DIY

July 30th, 2007 @ 11:01 am by Mrs. Licorice

As a scrapbooker, I was excited to papercraft my own wedding stationery. I’m the traditional sort who loves patterned papers and glue. When looking for inspiration images to begin my own little Save the Date project, I had a change of heart. I began to love the look of computer generated designs. Hmmm….Perhaps it’s time to get….digital?

Postcards by Ceci New York

After much consideration, I decided to buy my very own copy of Photoshop Elements. The program itself is very user-friendly, so even someone like me can figure it out. I knew I wanted to incorporate a floral motif to compliment our rustic, outdoor ceremony location. Purchasing a digital brush through Two Peas in a Bucket and fonts from dafont and scrapNfonts, the design ending up having a vintage appeal. It was exactly what I wanted.

I bought Luxe White cardstock through Broadway Paper and Antique Gold envelopes from My Gatsby. I know that cardstock from Broadway Paper is a little more expensive than from other sources, but they had the exact paper I was looking for, Waste Not Paper. Their Luxe White is a softer white, and the texture is too die for! Sam Flax in Atlanta provided the printing services. Once they were printed, I just rounded the corners, and, voila! they looked like this:

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I’m really happy with how they turned out!

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21 Responses to “Adventures in DIY”

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christina

I think they look absolutely stunning and VERY professional!

 
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Didi

o wow! they look amazing! I love the vintagy look of them!

 
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Mrs. Bluebell

Lovely!! I can’t believe this was your first time on Photoshop!!

 
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Valerie

OMG those are amazingly gorgeous, great work!

 
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J

awesome! i love ceciny’s designs but their prices are out of control! good for you :)

 
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bethgraced

So pretty! Excellent job!

 
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tofu

gorgeous!!!

 
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wsukarebear

They turned out great and I share your thoughts, exactly. I am slowly becoming acquainted with Photoshop but that’s difficult as a long-time DIY/scrapbooker. :-) You should be pround of your skillz!

 
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Tea

those look great! this makes me want to practice more with my illustrator and photoshop programs.

 
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Laura

I absolutely love, love, LOVE the treatment you used on the edge of the photo. And the colour - just the shade of green I love. Beautiful!

 
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jayypeeee

wow! it looks great!!! and love the photo btw!! =D

 
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bean

miss licorice- how’d you go about rounding the edges?

 
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L

Ooh, I love it, just beautiful!

 
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Mrs. Bee (message)  3,261 posts, Sugar bee

beautiful. you really captured that southern elegance and charm. :)

 
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My

They turned out really great….

 
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Miss Licorice

Thanks y’all!

bean: I used an EK Success Corner Adorner rounder. You can get it at Target, Wal-Mart, or a scrapbooking store. All you have to do is stick the corner of the piece of paper into the rounder and press down like a regular hole punch. It saves a lot of time and doesn’t cost much!

 
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Liana

These look amazing! Great job!

 
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bean

thanks so much, miss licorice!

 
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[...] receiving a positive response to my save the date cards, you’d think I’d be all gung-ho about designing my own invitations. Basically, that’s not [...]

 
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FYI - Waste Not Paper is the wholesale division of Paper Source - same company.

 
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DIY Rewind: Adventures in DIY » Weddingbee » The Wedding Blog

[...] DIY rewind comes from Mrs. Licorice. Mrs. Licorice decided to take the plunge and buy a copy of Photoshop Elements so she could design [...]

 


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