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Inspired by this post by Miss Glitter, I took on the arduous task of creating my own thank you cards.
This tiny snapshot does not do this map justice. It’s so gorgeous. I really want to incorporate it into our home, as well.
I used the same map from our invitations, but I decided to use the whole map. Isn’t it gorgeous? I scaled it down to roughly 4×6 and printed 2 to a page.
I wanted to use this gorgeous felt paper from envelopper.com, but it wouldn’t feed through anyone’s printer (anyone have some ideas for it? I still have a lot of it left!). I was very sad, and ended up using flat ivory cardstock. They still turned out OK.
Then I scored a 1/4 inch border around the edges of each postcard and carefully tore each one out. This is an extremely tedious process. In fact, it’s where the “for now, anyway” part comes in. But, we’ll get to that in a minute.
Once they were separated and had beautiful raggedy edges, I stamped the postcard graphic on the back (I used the graphic from this Martha project) and drew a line down the middle with a felt tip pen. Again, very tedious. Blah.
Okay, so honestly, I really hated to cover that gorgeous “stamp” square thingy with a yucky fruit postcard stamp. Ah, but such is life, right?
So, what about that “for now, anyways” part? This is an extremely tedious project. I thought it would be super easy, quick, and cheap. Well, cheap, it was. It cost me about $40 for the printing and the paper, plus about $15 or so for the stamps. $55 isn’t bad for 200 thank you cards; it comes out to about 28 cents each. So, with postage, that’s 55 cents or so. Sweet!
Anyway, it took me about an hour this evening just to score the cards I needed for my bridal shower thank you cards. I needed 15. Then I spent 30 minutes folding and tearing them out. The easy part was stamping the image and drawing the line. So, I’m not sure if I’m actually going to keep this project around. There may be a whole new design for these post-wedding. We’ll see.
How are you incorporating your wedding locale into your wedding?
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The raggedy edges are gorgeous indeed, but why not have Kinkos cut them for you if the process become too tedious? It would be a shame to toss such pretty cards. Beautiful idea.
Those are awesome! We are doing a vintage map theme with our wedding invites, so I adore your thank you notes! Lovely!!
If it’s any consolation they look fantastic!
That map awesome!
They look awesome…but if you do end up wanting to use the same images but speed up the DIY….then you could use Vistaprint. Sign up once and the next day they’ll send you an email advertising free postcards (100!). For about $5 you can upload your main image and even your postcard stamp image on the back. It’s glossy….so that would be hard to write on….but maybe a marker?
I’m an elem. school librarian and am having a pretend wedding for my 400 students. I just used different email addresses and had 400 postcards printed to invite the kids to my pretend wedding at the county library. 
I just had to pay for shipping–$6.71
I would highly recommend VistaPrint…. it was fast, good quality and you can’t beat the price. It would be a very different look from the paper you were using and the torn effect….but at least it would be done.
Good luck!
These are really cute! Maybe you could just cut them at Kinko’s instead? It would save a ton of time and still be really cute.
those look amazing! I really, really like the vintage map, I wish our venue had a better quality photo from back in the 1880’s when it was built.
I think they look amazing!! I really love them! But I totally get what you are saying about the time consuming aspects of the project. All of the vintage details of your wedding are so lovely!
I like those Thank Yous! How do they look with straight edges? I am sure the ripped edges add a nice touch but it seems that is really the time consuming part and who knows what the edges will look like once they go through mail sorting machines. I would just send them with straight edges, Iäm sure you are the only one who will see the difference and the photo and stamp still have a great vintage look! Besides, you already printed them so a new project will only take more time and resources.
Or you could just make Mr.Crabcake do the the tearing/scoring while you do the rest. They look great!
@Miss D’orsay: I like your thinking. But he’s not exactly good with that end of things. Perhaps I should make him to the writing and I’ll do the tearing!
Those are so beautiful. I’d totally be jealous of the vintage city feel if I hadn’t picked out something similar for my save the dates! So glad I did now!
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Mrs. Crab Cake, Columbus, GA
Age and Occupation: 25, Registered Nurse
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 31, Director of Education and Living History for a museum
Engagement Date: April 6, 2008
Wedding Date: June, 2009
Blogging Since: November 26, 2008
Venue: Holy Family Catholic Church, reception: National Infantry Museum
About Me: I'm a perfectionist trying to balance two jobs, motherhood, my craft obsession, and wedding planning. I am obsessed with all things wedding, especially creative ideas for saving money and DIY projects. A Southern Belle at heart, I love anything southern, especially sweet tea, grits, afternoon thunder storms, crab cakes, and good old Southern hospitality. Mr. Crab Cake and I are planning a vintage inspired wedding with tons of Southern flare (can y'all say that with a thick Southern drawl?).
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