Weddingbee Blog

… that must use double stamps.

(And of course, those that are completely neurotic. Like me.)

Our invites are solid beasts of cottony goodness. I pre-weighed them on 7 different scales in the scale department of Office Depot, so I knew what I was heading into when getting our test-run invite USPS weighed. Le sigh. Eighty-one cents on each outer envelope. From months stamp-stalking the USPS on the internet, I knew that I wanted to use the King and Queen stamps, but now I needed eighty-one-cent stamps. Well, USPS, you can have the extra 7 cents—this girl’s gonna double up.

So yeah. A king and a queen on each envelope. Lovely. BUT… I knew I was so crazy-controlling that I might drive myself nuts trying to individually line up the matching parts on the stamps. This was going to take FOREVER.

Or not.

In my invite-assembling delirium, I found a really easy solution with a Post-It flag. It made keeping the stamps attached at the perforation a breeeeeeze. How, you ask? WELL LET ME SHOW YOU!

First, take a handy-dandy Post-It that you have laying around.

Next, stick that sucker in the center of the two stamps you want to keep connected.

For the next step, don’t have a hugenormous camera in one hand. Take BOTH hands and gently peel back the paper behind the stamps.

Using the Post-it, pull off the two stamps and detach them from their neighbors.

Lay the stamps in the right spot. It actually works best if you hold it by the Post-it, but I was being all camera-in-hand-not-thinking. Either works.

Rub it all down in place.

Remove the Post-it.

Voila! A perfectly-lined-up-with-each-other-and-never-separated stamp pair!

Thanks, Post-It! I was able to use the same one over and over.

A ridiculously simple solution to a really minuscule but irritating problem.

Any other double-stampers out there? Were you concerned about the neighboring stamps lining up?