Weddingbee Blog

My DIY envelope liners - don’t sound so interesting, yes I know. But because I had a vision of what I wanted the inside to look like and couldn’t find anything close to my vision, I created my own. Of course the process was made easier because all my products, cards and envelopes were all from Paper Source.

We have a laser color printer at home, so I laid out my double happiness graphic over and over again on Illustrator and printed about 350 sheets of these puppies on 8.5 x 11″ paper. I could have gotten even more particular and just laid out graphics in those exact areas that I knew I’d trace and not waste so much ink, but I wasn’t thinking.

I worked very systematically so that I’d keep sane and work efficiently and quickly.  My first step was to draw out each of the templates with a pencil, so the trace would be nice and light: an easy project while watching tv. Another thing I did to maximize my time was to do these “little” projects while I was waiting on another to finish (in this case, my invites to dry), this way I am always on two things simultaneously.

When I was done tracing and the ink was still drying on my invites, I started on cutting them suckers out which was a painful process because I had to cut over 400+ of these babies - one version for the Chinese banquet on the second day and the other version for our American wedding on the first day.

Working on any project, I always have a handy recycling bag next to me and another for garbage; that way I don’t have to travel far and it makes clean up fast.

And with the quickness to stuff these suckers, I know this is going to sound real anal, but I had my piles of envelopes stacked with lip facing up on the left; liners, on the right; and permanent double sided tape close at hand. This made for easy grabbing. Reach left: envelope, bring to center. Reach right: liner, bring to center and stuff. Fold over, tape, finished piled in front and center and keep going. Am I weird? LOL … notice I had my laptop over there in the top, I was BeeTV’ing as I was stuffing them suckas so those of you that saw me, I got shiet done fast!

Good luck! And happy stuffing!