Weddingbee Blog

…our invitations have got to be it! I have been waiting to post about this for so long, and after weeks on weeks of printing and cutting and pasting, the invitations are out!

I have always loved designing invitations. I had the pleasure of doing so for a few of my friends either for their weddings or for other various events, and I just couldn’t wait to design our own! I knew I wanted it to convey a very carefree, sweet, and lighthearted tone, and I also wanted it to be classic yet original at the same time.

As an avid scrapbooker and also having loved arts and crafts ever since I was little, I knew I wanted to go the DIY route. I love nothing more than creating something by hand as a gift for a loved one, so given that this would be the one event where our loved ones would be traveling from near and far, I really wanted to make our invitations special. Of course, there’s a difference in making one card or scrapbook page versus having to make over 200 invitations, so I have to admit I did underestimate the time involved . We made everything, from the pocketfolds to the inserts even to the graphic on the body of the invite, which I designed using various rubber stamps !

Anyway, without further ado, here are the fruits of our labor! Thanks to Mr. D, Sister Daffodil, and my northern CA bridesmaids who helped out!

The cover…

The inside (it’s so much prettier without the info blocked out!)…

Closeup of the detail…I gave the invitations some texture by using string and paper flowers…

My raw materials:

The paper:

• Metallic paper in spring green and bronze from bluedotpapershop, used for making the pocketfolds and for the backing of the invitations
• Luxe glass 160g text paper from PaperSource, which is a cream colored cardstock with a slight hint of green, for the invitation itself and the inserts

The detail:

• String from Joann’s Fabrics (the kind we all used to make friendship bracelets out of back in the day!)
• Prima “Got Flowers?” paper flowers in small peach from Frantic Stamper
  

The glue that held everything together:

• Glue dots and Zots from Paper Source to secure the flowers
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• Mounting squares also from Paper Source to mount the invites to the backing and then to the pocketfold
• Scotch double-sided permanent photo safe tape (the 25 yard one), once I realized that the mounting squares just were not economical whatsoever
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• Supertape (available at PaperSource) to create my pocketfolds
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• And finally, square 5.75″ x 5.75″ envelopes in natural white from Envelopemall
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I will share the details on how we made them in another post, but for now, I just really wanted to share these with you all!