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Invitation - Part 1

March 12th, 2008 @ 3:15 pm by Ms. Dahlia

When we started looking at invitations, there was one in particular that caught our eye:

Classic and formal, but with a twist: a dark background with with white lettering. From Crane’s. Which also means that it was going to be at least $1000 over our invitation budget.

Given that it is extremely difficult to get light text on dark paper, thermography was ruled out. And letterpress was just outside of our budget.

But after seeing Mrs. Emerald’s posts about her invitations, I was inspired to do a little designing of my own. And with the Open Office Draw design program available for free, how hard could it be?

A screenshot of the invitation in progress.

Turns out, a whole lot more complicated than I thought. Let’s say for now that there is often a reason why things are free…

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5 Responses to “Invitation - Part 1”

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Emily

Hi Miss Dahlia - I did the same and found it kind of difficult too! So I actually downloaded a free trial of Illustrator (for 30 days) and used that instead - it was easiest in terms of saving it in a format that the printing company I used wanted. Just in case you wanted another option…

3/12/08 @ 4:01 pm (reply)

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Kat

The 30 day trials of Adobe products are nice. There’s also a new (free!) suite of online design software at a.viary.com. They have online version of photoshop, indesign, & more. If you sign up for the beta, they’ll send you an invite.

3/12/08 @ 4:12 pm (reply)

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Kat

(That’s not a typo. The address is http://a.viary.com)

3/12/08 @ 4:12 pm (reply)

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