Look Ma, I Designed It Myself!

Look Ma, I Designed It Myself!

June 27th, 2010 @ 7:00 pm by Mrs. Jellyfish
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Yes, dear readers. I designed our Welcome Dinner/Farewell Brunch invitation insert all by myself. And by “designed”, I mean stole an idea straight out of Mindy Weiss’ amazing book The Wedding Book: The Big Book for Your Big Day (aka the best wedding book ever. Ever.) Here is the page I got the idea from:

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Photo taken by me, buy the book here.

Since I have zero computer design experience, I was at a loss on how to even begin to design this. I ended up just using my good old frienemy, Microsoft Word. And I have to say, I’m pretty pleased with the result! Are you ready to see the fruits of my labor?

Brace yourselves, people.

And please, don’t laugh.

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On my ‘puter screen.

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And the finished product! I printed them onto ivory cardstock, and they will be tucked inside next to our main invitations. Not too shabby, eh?

The reverse side of our Welcome Dinner/Farewell Brunch invites will feature a wedding map. That, my friends, I did get some help with. But more on that later.

Did you design any wedding-related stuff on your computer? What program did you use?

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24 Responses to “Look Ma, I Designed It Myself!”

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Mrs. Cheeseburger (message) 1,020 posts, Bumble bee

they look great! I too am of the Microsoft Office school of design

6/27/10 @ 7:23 pm (reply)

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Miss Cardigan (message) 8,645 posts, Bee Keeper

They look great! And I’m right there with you - if I need to design anything, my first stop is either Word or PowerPoint!

6/27/10 @ 7:35 pm (reply)

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Miss Trail Mix (message) 6,328 posts, Bee Keeper

Love the corner punch designs, these look amazing! Kinda wish I’d thought of doing something like this

6/27/10 @ 7:42 pm (reply)

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Ms. E (message) 132 posts, Blushing bee

I’m all about Word and PowerPoint. We did our entire invitation suite in Word and I think they came out pretty good! Oh, and I love the corner punch too!

6/27/10 @ 8:24 pm (reply)

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heather25 (message) 2,355 posts, Buzzing bee

Awesome! Where did you get that corner punch?

6/27/10 @ 8:26 pm (reply)

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Miss Jellyfish (message) 1,450 posts, Bumble bee

@heather25: It’s a Fiskars Squeeze Punch and I got it at JoAnn’s. Looks like this http://www2.fiskars.com/Products/Crafting/Punches/Squeeze-Punches

6/27/10 @ 8:32 pm (reply)

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Curlysue (message) 1,703 posts, Bumble bee

I really like that! We are also having a welcome dinner and a breakfast the morning after so this layout would be perfect! While I’m also use MS Office for whatever I work up–Photoshop and Illustrator are too expensive(!)–I prefer MS Publisher…I <3 it!

6/27/10 @ 8:40 pm (reply)

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Miss Earrings (message) 2,477 posts, Buzzing bee

Nice My design skills are limited mainly to Microsoft Word too…with a little bit of Powerpoint thrown in

6/27/10 @ 8:42 pm (reply)

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March2011BrideLA (message) 31 posts, Newbee

Is your printer a regular printer that rolls the paper through? If so, doesn’t that bend the card stock or does it come out ok? That’s a fear of mine with my sort-of DIY invitations, and I’m having them printed by a professional graphic artist/printer.

6/27/10 @ 9:46 pm (reply)

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Miss Jellyfish (message) 1,450 posts, Bumble bee

@March2011BrideLA: Hm I’m not sure, I just used a laser printer at school. It’s one of those big huge ones.

6/27/10 @ 9:59 pm (reply)

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winter (message) 1,333 posts, Bumble bee

i love that! it’s so cute!!! i love the corners!

6/27/10 @ 10:13 pm (reply)

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gill84 (message) 725 posts, Busy bee

I’m also limited to MS word! I used it to design our programs, and am also pretty proud of the results!

6/27/10 @ 10:39 pm (reply)

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mrspaetz (message) 3,805 posts, Honey bee

i think they look great! and MS Word is so much easier to deal with than Photoshop!

6/27/10 @ 11:19 pm (reply)

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