Weddingbee Blog

I’m just going to take a quick detour into Crafty Land to talk about a rubber-stamp company whose products I drool over. It’s still wedding related because I’ve already used two different stamp sets in wedding crafts and plan on using more! (all photos in this post are from Papertrey Ink, unless otherwise noted)

The company in question: Papertrey Ink. They put so much thought into everything they design! For starters, there’s their Perfect Match system. They sell card stock, ribbon, ink, buttons, and more in these colours. Any colour-conscious bride’s dream, correct?

(There are a few more colours not shown in this graphic from their website.)

They also do dies, and their dies cut more than paper! They can also cut felt, card stock, magnetic sheets, and all sorts of things. They have some general ones (I love the look of the scalloped-border dies), but (and here is the clever part!) they also have dies to match their stamps!

So, say you want to use their Friendship Jar stamp set for your Mason-jar-themed wedding. (I’m going to have to throw a Mason-jar party someday!) You get your stamps:

And instead of cutting them out painstakingly, you get your dies:

And bam! Perfectly cut-out everything! I think they recommend cutting first, then stamping, as the dies have solid backs you can’t see through.

My most recent favourite, though, is their banner-builder set. Found some cute paper? Want to make it into bunting, but that sounds like too much work with scissors?

Dies + Paper + Glue =

Bunting! (photo and amazing work by Betsy Veldman)

There is also this banner shape:

(photo and work by Dawn McVey)

There are also card-sized versions of these dies if you want mini-bunting. And they sell the border dies that have been used along the tops of the banners in the photos above.

Sorry if this has come off sounding like an infomercial, but I wanted to make sure that any crafty or crafty-curious brides out there knew about this company. They make it so easy to put this stuff together! Each bunting shape has two dies, one a little larger than the other, so you can get a perfect matted look!

I do have one beef, and that is the cost of shipping to Canada. I gush and drool over their products but actually don’t own too many because of shipping. I save up a list of stuff, and when I have a list of stuff totaling over $100 that I can’t live without, I’ll order. I don’t do it very often because $100 is a lot to spend at once on stamps. But sometimes they’re too great not to order. And you lucky Americans get free shipping on orders over $60! I don’t have the Mason-jar or the banner set yet, but someday I’ll order them.

So, awesomeness? Or too matchy-matchy for you?