Mrs. Plumeria, San Francisco
Age and Occupation in 06: 22, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 24, High School Teacher
Engagement Date: December 30, 2005
Wedding Date: May 12, 2007
Venue: Hotel Ballroom
About Me: I love all things artsy and unique, and it has become a passion of mine to incorporate these attributes into my wedding (and become DIY royalty in the process). Other than dreaming up projects for the wedding, my latest hobbies include working on my computer, playing with my cute pet bunny, or shopping at Target/Barnes and Noble with my fiance.
She’s Getting Married!
June 26th, 2008 @ 10:30 am by Mrs. Plumeria
A long time ago, I wrote about my MOH, Jasmine. While the wedding fever cooled down for me shortly after our big day, I couldn’t help but catch it again when she got engaged too! We’ll be switching places (her: the beautiful bride, me: so honored to stand next to her) during August this year at a big hotel ceremony in Vegas, and Mr. Plumeria (who’s in the bridal party too!) and I couldn’t be more excited for her and her fiance. You know what that means… shower planning! Here are the invitations I made for her upcoming shower for a little simple crafty inspiration. 
I have to say, this project is a perfect example of “use what you’ve got around.” I went to Target (where else, right?) looking for inspiration. I came home with some scrapbooking paper and a couple of packs of matching stickers… and not a clue as to what I was going to make with them.
I ended up printing some text with crop marks onto some cream-colored cardstock I already had, setting it up in Illustrator:
Then I cut up some kraft-colored blank greeting cards that I found in my desk drawer into 3.5×5″ rectangles, and rounded the two right corners with a corner punch. You could use a colored cardstock for this too. I used the scrapbooking paper I’d bought to “line” the cards, again rounding the two right corners. Who says every invitation needs to be the same?
I cut out the text cards I had printed and continued to round the two right corners off, each piece a little smaller than the one below it, and aligned them all on the left. The two text panels were staggered so invitees could see the bottom map/directions panel and know to swivel the top one out to view it.
Everything was stacked and secured with coordinating metal brads from my mix-and-match collection of brads and eyelets. Since I’d bought them, I added some of the Target stickers to each for a little added dimension.
15 Responses to “She’s Getting Married!”
So cute!!
Doh, I wish I had seen these earlier… I’m 75% done w/shower invites for a friend of mine, and these look much easier and just as cute (if not cuter, haha)
These are so awesome! I love being creative with stuff you just have lying around.
I hope my friends have fancy shower invitations fo me.
Wow, those are really nice!!!!
Love them! Thank you for sharing!
Those are gorgeous!
wow! those are really creative! very cute
so crafty.
If I could have just a small percentage of your crazy good craft skills, would make me so happy!
Lovely!!
So so cute!
Becky
so cute! you’re so talented!
Lovely - but can you teach how you make the holes for the brads? Just a regular hole puncher?
Do you have any idea how to make the holes for those mini brads I see at Target and elsewhere?
@Amanda: I used a small 1/16″ handheld hole puncher. You can buy it from Paper Source or Michael’s — I think even Target has a 1/8″ circle punch, which would also work for all but the smallest brads. Good luck!
