Press the Button: The Other Half

Press the Button: The Other Half

April 3rd, 2010 @ 6:30 pm by Mrs. Ribbons
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I am in the thick of making my invitations. I have the letterpress invites. I printed the envelopes. So it was time to make the rest of the suite: the hotel card and the reply card.

I printed the secondary pieces at home to save money. I used the same color of Crane paper as the letterpress invites to maintain consistency. So I printed all of these pieces out, multiple “cards” to a sheet of letter-sized paper.

Then the cutting began. Let’s just say I didn’t enjoy this part.

This took me several hours. Several tedious, annoying, agonizing, soul-crushing hours. I prefer not to think about it.

What lengths have you gone to in the name of DIY?

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24 Responses to “Press the Button: The Other Half”

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mrsheart (message) 39 posts, Newbee

what kind of printer do you recommend, hard work but they look lovely and professional.

4/3/10 @ 7:00 pm (reply)

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tweds (message) 448 posts, Helper bee

Lovely! But for the sake of your hands, perhaps you should invest in a guillotine paper cutter?

4/3/10 @ 7:13 pm (reply)

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Miss Dolphin (message) 503 posts, Busy bee

We printed our invitations from home on our laser printer and they sure were a labor of love. Cutting separately the invitation, and the two back cards. Those took us so long we ended up ordering the rest of the cards from an online printer! I totally feel your ‘cutting’ pain!

4/3/10 @ 7:16 pm (reply)

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Miss Ribbons (message) 2,018 posts, Buzzing bee

@tweds: The thought occurred to me after I had cut the majority of the cards Maybe for the next project.
@mrsheart: I used an HP Photosmart inkjet.

4/3/10 @ 7:35 pm (reply)

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Miss Cali Girl in NJ (message) 147 posts, Blushing bee

what a great budget saver though! I am soo terrible at cutting things. I always think just a little bit more. Then more. Then more. Then there is nothing!! Congrats on finishing.

4/3/10 @ 7:41 pm (reply)

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ElizabethNemeth (message) 5 posts, Newbee

your poor hands!!! I cut tons of pieces (4, one being a “frame” ) for my STD’s. Luckily, for my invitations, I discovered that Kinko’s will cut paper (up to 500 sheets at a time for regular paper, 250 at a time for cardstock) for under 2.00 a cut! And it’s perfect! And you can save your hands! Fellow bee’s, I cut all 5 pieces for my invitations for less than 30 bucks and it took 20 minutes. I highly recommend it!!!

4/3/10 @ 8:14 pm (reply)

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krissybee (message) 3,921 posts, Honey bee

ahh man, thats alot of work!!!! massage those poor hands! i know i’ll be doing alot of cutting (and bleeding) for all my paper products!

4/3/10 @ 8:45 pm (reply)

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tea (message) 7,288 posts, Bee Keeper

i’ll be following down this path myself when it comes time to constructing the invites. i’m actually excited. i love using my paper cutter!

4/3/10 @ 8:46 pm (reply)

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cecullaton (message) 627 posts, Busy bee

I did the same with our invitations… and then, was given a paper guillotine for my birthday.. just DAYS after I finished all the painful cutting!! Good job on the cards, they look fantastic!

4/3/10 @ 8:53 pm (reply)

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jordynrose (message) 6,351 posts, Bee Keeper

All those scraps tell me that you were cutting for a LONG time! I feel your pain! I hand cut our candy bag labels to be in a topnote type shape…that sucked big time.

4/3/10 @ 9:08 pm (reply)

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Miss Elephant (message) 6,182 posts, Bee Keeper

OH man, cutting out things seemed so easy before I started in on all the DIY paper products. I’m now really contemplating getting someone else to cut out the remaining stuff.

4/3/10 @ 9:41 pm (reply)

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labrat (message) 472 posts, Helper bee

Luckily we are going to cut all of ours at a local letterpress studio. So instead of cutting each one, we will cut them all at once. =) I was so happy when I found out this as it would have taken me forever.

4/3/10 @ 10:53 pm (reply)

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Miss Turtle (message) 782 posts, Busy bee

The cutting part sounds like torture, but I’m loving the final product! So stylish!

4/4/10 @ 4:38 am (reply)

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goosegg1001 (message) 131 posts, Blushing bee

Im in the middle of cutting right now… WORST IDEA EVER! I better love this end result!

4/4/10 @ 5:02 pm (reply)

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Miss Scissors (message) 7,343 posts, Bee Keeper

You did such a fabulous job, lovely.

4/4/10 @ 5:10 pm (reply)

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sunnydebs (message) 784 posts, Busy bee

I did the same thing. I ordered invitations and then did the rest myself. SO MUCH work. And to think I thought I could do it without a paper cutter. Yeah…..I bought one after about 30 minutes of messing with the cards and scissors.

4/4/10 @ 6:56 pm (reply)

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Ms. Library (message) 1,250 posts, Bumble bee

Those look great! I have created piles of paper like that too. I find it helps to offer people food and give them scissors!

4/5/10 @ 7:41 am (reply)

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Ella1978 (message) 2,027 posts, Buzzing bee

The invitations were a big pain for me too… I tried to use that lovely fiskars cutter you used, but it didn’t work for me.. so I used an exacto and straight edge for mine! Talk about tedious. And I’m totally anal, and don’t trust anyone to help (totally my own fault!) I have about 3/4 of my inserts cut! I’m rounding third and heading home! (on the invites….) My programs will be the next most laborious task! 5 pages of petals to cut out for each one.. then I’m using a eyelet setter - which is extremely tedious!!

Everybody better love them! Yours look great miss ribbons!

4/5/10 @ 8:04 am (reply)

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