Weddingbee Blog

So I played around with the invites a little more this weekend and decided that the design by VistaPrint wasn’t exactly what I was looking for and didn’t really go with the theme of the party. Plus, as a few people pointed out, they were more of a copy of the one I originally liked and less of an inspiration.

I started thinking that a folded card would be better than a flat one like originally planned. My next thought was to look at envelope dimensions first so I could easily buy some that our invitations would fit in. Once I had the dimensions, back to Photoshop I went. I grabbed my favorite e-pic and converted it to black and white. Then I sized the canvas in Photoshop to just under the width of the envelopes, and just under double the height so when folded in half, it would fit perfectly. I added a text layer and put the date of our wedding in red because I thought it popped nicely against the black and white. I later went back and added our names, because when I was finished with the inside, I realized I hadn’t put them in anywhere! So here’s the outside…

And for the inside, I made the same size canvas and added a text layer with the same color font as on the front (although it looks darker below).

I have to say, the trickiest part was figuring out which way to flip the paper in the printer once one side was printed since I don’t have a double sided printer. Anywho, here’s the finished product of the rough draft…

And I love them! My only problem at this point is that I still haven’t quite gotten the picture as clear as I would like. Resizing it from a HUGE pic to something so much smaller makes it more pixelated than I would like. I’m no whiz at Photoshop, so I’m not sure if there’s a way to make it clearer. But after reading Miss Cheeseburger’s post about cutting notches and inserting the actual picture, I think the problem may be solved!

So I ask you all if you are crazy like me… did you revamp your invites a bunch of times before you came up with a design you loved? Or did you leave them in the hands of someone that actually knows what they were doing?