Weddingbee Blog

So I’ve been reading a couple blogs and wedding sites during the planning process and have learned so many different things that we’re going to try and incorporate into our wedding. I read about embossing a couple of times on the ‘bee and thought it wouldn’t be that hard to do myself.

Our wedding invites have a mini (and I do mean mini, compared to other invites that I have seen online) flourish, which I was just going to print out along with the rest of the wording. After reading about embossing and Etsy, I thought “why not add a little flair to that flourish?” So I put out an order for a custom-made stamp based on the flourish we were using on the invite. I received four bids and took one of the middle prices after reading the seller’s positive reviews.

After a couple e-mails back and forth on the actual font name of the flourish, my Etsy seller created a stamp and sent it in the mail. I made the order on a Saturday night and received the stamp in the mail a few days later. I was so excited I even called myself a craft nerd on Facebook. I could finally use the embossing powder, stamp ink, and embossing heat tool that I purchased a few weeks ago (all with coupons, of course!). I practiced on some paper and then moved to printouts of our invites. Not all of them turned out perfect, but I have already decided that if they aren’t perfect on the invites, we’re still sending them out because 1) I highly doubt any of our guest will notice since they don’t know what it’s supposed to look like anyway and 2) I think it adds even more character to the invites! Below are the items that I used during the practice run and picture steps of the process:

Products:

• Pigment stamp ink - white
• Embossing powder - green
• Custom flourish stamp
• Paper (will be linen paper when it comes time to do our real invites)
• Card stock - bent (used to collect the excess powder)
• Small paint brush (optional)
• Embossing heat tool

After printing out the invitation wording, I stamped it with white ink (kinda hard to see here) on top of the extra card stock.

Once stamped, I sprinkled the embossing powder all over it (making sure to get all of the stamp area.

I lifted up the paper and let the excess powder fall onto the card stock.

I brushed off the little bit of powder that remained around the flourish. I found that bending the card stock made it easier to put back into the jar.

I turned on the heat tool and waved it around, making sure not to stay in one spot because that could burn the paper.

After a couple seconds, I started to see that the powder was becoming thin and then hardened.

And there you have it, the finished product! I think the blurriness adds to the embossing in this picture.

To make the most of the heat gun, we’ll be embossing the same flourish on our save the dates and some other paper products for the reception.

Have you made any purchases from Etsy? If you have, isn’t it awesome?