Sorry I haven't been posting much. I didn't abandon my PJ, life just got in the way.
As noted in the title, this post will be about invitation. I am DIYing, them because I'm picky as all heck, and I wanted them to be personal (and, it was cheaper). I first started with the idea of having a Disney/celebration/magical wedding with pixie dust.
I will start with posting my original invite design. It is a folding invite (like a greeting card). The inside design is the same inside and on the RSVP, info card, and name cards (which I haven't designed yet):
Cover
Inside
Info Card (more info will be added)
RSVP
I made the design for my invitations over a year ago, and I was pretty happy with it. When I started looking for envelopes, I kept seeing all these cute designs and realized I wasn't quite as happy with them as I thought. I still liked them, but I didn't love them. So, I started reformulating.
My first plan, and really my only one, for jazzing them up was to color over the lines of the stars with a gold glitter gel pen. Again, I liked it, but I just wasn't feeling the love.
I spent some time looking at invitations and trying to find envelopes yesterday. Actually, I spent nearly the whole day outside of class and work doing that. I got a brilliant idea (when I couldn't find envelopes for less than $25/100) that I could just make the envelopes. I only need 15 for the actual wedding, and I found an easy pattern, so it seemed achievable. Until I started sizing.
In order to make them in the right size, I would have to get super large paper that was really expensive, and it only came in a medium weight which wasn't thick enough to cover the invitation designs. Plus, most people (myself included) don't save envelopes. So, I dropped that like a hot pan.
Putting the envelopes aside, I started reconsidering my invite design. I like the detail in the corner, so I knew I had to find something similar. I thought about what I had collected for the wedding thus far, what my dress looks like, what flowers I'll have, and where the wedding is, and decided to look for some nice roses.
I searched for quite a while through images for 'rose corner,' 'rose embellishment,' and 'rose border' before stumbling across this awesome corner stamp on eBay. I am not a stamp person, but I loved it. I took a screen-shot and started reworking the invites with the new design, and it was definitely love. Through about fifteen minutes of playing with sizes (it felt like more), I realized the stamp in actual size was too big, but I could scale down and edit the pictures.
Genius plan! Lighten the images enough to color over them with scrapbooking markers and use a green glitter gel pen to highlight the leaves. The brown doesn't look that bad, but I'm going for more color. I will be doing medium green leaves and pink roses to match my flowers. Result: an invitation I loved. I still have a little work do with coloring yet (it's still not a white background), but I have an invite!
Cover
Inside
Info Card (more info will be added)
RSVP
I'm not sure which design I'll use for the at-home, but it will be the simple flat style with just the main invite and an RSVP.
Now that I have the invitations figured out, I still have to find envelopes. I was planning on printing them myself, but I can't seem to find them for what I feel is a decent price. Any ideas? Where did some of you ladies get yours?