Weddingbee Blog

I ran into the Paper Source the other day to grab some Thank You cards for my shower.  PS had some really delicious letterpress cards in store, but at $13 for 10…I thought maybe another time.

Time to bust out the Gocco! So I thought I’d be totally unoriginal and go with the umbrella theme, since it was a shower. Shower…rain…umbrellas…we’ve seen it a million times. Anyway, on to the goods!

I bought 4 sheets of printed kraft wrapping paper and traced out my own envelopes using the nifty Envelope Templates that Paper Source offers (and every crafty gal should own).

I lined them with “Curry” colored text weight paper, which didn’t match my yellow Gocco ink that well, but we’re getting really anal with our yellows at this point aren’t we?

Then, Go-Go-Gocco away. Two passes on two screens using yellow and grey ink.

Check out this hot mess. This is what happens when you place your carbon print way too close to the edge of the Gocco. I knew this would probably happen before I flashed, but I thought I’d be ballsy and do it anyway. Since I was trying to SAVE money by making my own cards, I decided that flashing another screen wasn’t worth it, and my poor guests will have to deal with the sub-par under flashed edges.

Ta-da! Finished. Nothing too fancy, but they’ll get the job done!