Weddingbee Blog

OK, here’s the thing: I drool over all of these super-crafty projects that I see online and make all these plans to do at-home projects for the wedding. But while I love to doodle, do crafts, color, etc., my artistic skills aren’t what I would refer to as exemplary. My heart is in the right place, but I have little patience and a short attention span. Those two qualities mean that I don’t generally partake in complicated DIY projects.

However, some projects are just so friggin’ easy that even if you don’t have a crafty bone in your body, you can do them. And if it saves money, it is almost always a good thing. (Except toilet paper. You get what you pay for there, for sure.)

When we ordered our save the dates, we opted to not get the matching envelopes and instead went with the free white ones. After putting them together, they would certainly do the job of getting to our guests, but the envelopes were looking a little…bare.

As a reminder, here’s a snap of our save the dates:

And…drum roll, please…here are our envelopes.

I mean, I know they will get beat up in the mail system and all…but those envelopes were just a touch too sad/boring for me, considering this is the first taste of our wedding the guests will experience.

They were a little more lively once we affixed the stylish return-address labels that we got, but I wanted more. So I hit up the local Hobby Lobby and purchased the following things:

Playing with stamps is something I would always do when I would spend the night at my aunt’s place growing up, so this brought back a lot of awesome childhood memories for me.

One day during the Texas Snowpocalypse in February (schools and businesses were closed four days in a row!!), I got to work.

After years of loving crafts but destroying project after project, I’ve learned that it is best to do a few practice runs before the real thing.

So, I practiced my stamping skills and tried a few different combinations of designs before I actually started on the real guys. It turned out that there wasn’t one individual style that I liked, and it wound up looking nice for each of them to be a little different. I didn’t even need to line them up perfectly since they were so vine-y and decorative; they could overlap differently each time, and it still looked nice.

Snazzy!

All photos are personal

It worked out fantastically that I found a rubber stamp that matched the design of the save the dates almost perfectly, but there were plenty of other rubber-stamp choices that we could have used as well. I’ve completed about half of them so far, and it took me around 10 minutes. It doesn’t get much easier than this, folks (or cheaper, since this project cost me a whopping seven dollars). The best part is that our invitations will be in the same design as these, so this stamp will easily be put to good use again.

Have you done any ridiculously easy craft projects lately? Please share!