Weddingbee Blog

Hello hive! I’d been waiting for my BFF/MOH to get her Gocco’d gift in the mail before I embarked on this post. She’s getting married in Canada next weekend and I couldn’t be more excited for her! I wanted to show her how happy I was to be part of her special day, so I decided to make her some stationery with her brand new last name. I love stationery, and I personally think that letter writing should be brought back in style. It seems like we can get so caught up in technology these days. Sure, emailing or text messaging is faster, but I love the personalized and thoughtful gesture of letter writing. It makes me happy!

So, I’ll move on to the project.

First off, please don’t get excited. I don’t have the Gocco skills of the Bees who Goccoed before me or any of the Etsy sellers out there. I’m just an overeager bride-to-be who always completely overestimates her level of craftiness. But, hey—I try! Before I got started, I literally stalked any blog or website that had a tutorial or an FAQ, especially this video from Paper Source.

This is the tidy craft table before the project.

I needed to press down really hard to get the image to transfer. I didn’t use the blue screen! Bad Dumpling!

And here is the craft table after I was finished. I’m messy!

I used light pink Simply Paper cards and envelopes from Michaels. They were about $10 for a set of 20. For ink, I used the gold color that comes standard in the PG-5 Gocco starter kit.

It took a few tries and I ruined about five cards before I got the hang of it. I used a poppy flower design from Google images and pasted it into Microsoft Word. Then, I typed her name in a text box and placed it beside the image. After I printed everything out using a laser printer (do not use ink jet!), I burned the design onto a Gocco screen. I’ve found that it’s best to keep pressing for a few seconds after the bulbs have flashed. Then, I inked the screen up and started pressing the image onto the pink cards. I know that most people use Photoshop or Illustrator to make their designs, but this was my first try and using Word worked out great for me. I’m just not as technically savvy as some of you out there are!

After the ink dried, I cut the corners using a rounded corner punch, also from Michaels, and put the stationery in a white silky bag.

The finished product! Too bad the blur over her last name makes it look wonky. Oh, privacy!

I’ll also be making our own invitations and save-the-dates with my Gocco, so any tips you’d like to give me are appreciated!

If there is one piece of advice you could give for someone using a Gocco, what would it be?