Wedding Blog

The day after Mr. Gloss proposed I was online buying a Gocco and a ridiculous amount of supplies. I had been eying them after seeing the amazing invitations made by previous bees, and stalking the Gocco Flickr stream, like, every day. When it arrived on my doorstep I didn’t really have anything that I needed to mass-produce, but I couldn’t wait to try out my new toy! Enter PaperSource, a girls bestest friend. I walked out with waay too many flat and folded cards (with matching envelopes, of course) with the excuse that I would make amazingly cute note cards for a friend’s upcoming birthday.

Without further ado, my first Gocco experience:

To start I watched this fantastic explanatory video. I really think this lady has been exposed to way too many Gocco flashes. Although, I’m not going to lie – I enjoy her immensely and have found myself watching other PaperSource tutorials just to get more of her!

I made my design in Illustrator and had decided to start with something simple - but I’m also way cheap and wanted to expose two cards for the price of one. I haven’t printed the second card yet because I need to wash the first screen so it doesn’t get on the SECOND print. But this is the first one - inspired by Kate Spade, obviously!

The pictures don’t do it justice (I swear I actually have a half-decent camera). Apparently I just suck at taking pictures. Anyway, this is the final product. The text says, “just dropping a line…” and the navy ink for the arrow is actually embossed, so it’s raised just a little bit off the page, which I think gives it a little extra pizzazz.

So this is my inked screen. I used red and navy, since it had a nautical theme. You can just barely see the second image in the center. (Actually probably not at all, but it’s there! Also, please note the fantastic Barbie pink mani.)

And here is the completed set. I also did little arrows on the envelopes; I should have done these first and then added the second ink (red) and done the cards, but I wasn’t thinking, so I just put down scrap paper each time I printed, and now have tons of little pieces of paper that say, “just dropping a line…”

Same day – new project. This one was inspired by a trip to Michaels where I found this super cute dress stamp.

Again, sorry for the blurry photo. These were the “Will you be my bridesmaid?” cards I made for my ladies. I got the stamp, cards, ink pad, and embossing powder and heat gun at Michaels. I bought the Fiskars corner punch at Jo-Ann.

Really, these were so easy to make -

1. Stamp card
2. Pour powder on wet ink
3. Shake off excess power
4. Apply heat gun until the powder/ink combo gets shiny and raised
5. DONE

Anyway, it looks so much harder than it is, and it takes so little effort for such great results!

Are you a DIY bride? What’s the first big tool you bought for yourself after you got engaged?