Weddingbee Blog

I got inspired by Miss Ostrich’s vintage postcards and decided that we must also have a vintage postcard in our wedding. The only question was how? Then, as I was revising our menu design for the fourth time (yep I really did change my mind that often) I thought, “why not turn them into vintage postcards?” So, I did!

Here is the back side that will face towards the center of the table:

It has our wedding quote/saying written across the top (”The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step”) and three of our engagement photos that I faded to give a vintage feel to in Photoshop.

So how did I make these? You are going to LOL at me because it’s so simple!

The first step was to find a high resolution (300 dpi) image/graphic of time worn paper. In all honesty I Googled ’Photoshop textures worn paper’ and used one of them as a background. I am pretty sure I used one of the ones from here but after going through tons of sites I can’t really remember. Sorry ladies, fail blogger bride strikes again.

After that I simply typed up the information. The cursive font is Dear Joe 4, the menu heading is Algerian and the to/from font is Eccentric Std. The stamp image in the upper right hand corner was just a set of free Photoshop postage stamp brushes but you can even use a dingbat font like this if you don’t use Photoshop.

The backside of the menu was a little more work. I used the same time worn paper for the background and then changed the contrast of the photos until they had a worn/faded look to them. Then, over the top of the photos I put another copy of the time worn photo and made it almost see-through (in Microsoft Word it’s called watermarking). And, that’s it!

I told ya it was so easy you were going to LOL at me. *grin*

I still need to make some nice stands for them to sit on. Jax suggested using clay, which I think I might give a shot this weekend.

Can I ask if you used a stand for your menu? What did you make it from?