invitations made

[Rebemdee]

I decided to hand make my invitations, and they are FINALLY done! I''m excited, so I want to share them...hope you don''t mind.

 

[Rebemdee]

They are pink vellum, with a creamy stock paper flecked with pink on the inside, white sparkly ribbon, a heart clip, a silver charm, and green ribbon. I''m another pink/greenie!

 

[Tybee]

How pretty!
I am always inpressed with you do-it-yourselfers! I am such a spazz and could
never do that!

 

[Caribou]

What pretty invitations!!!!

I''m doing my own too and I''m nervous, I''m so not a crafty person.

 

[Rebemdee]

My advice is get extra stuff, because what you think you are going to do may evolve. What I ended up doing is similar, but not the same, as what I imagined. I attached the ribbon differently, got the clips instead of tying a knot in the front, used xyron rather than glue to stick the cardstock to the vellum. I went through 3 or 4 trials doing it different ways before I found what worked. If you are using vellum and need to stick something to it, xyron is the way to go!

 

[Caribou]

Thanks for the advice. I''m actually sticking a picture of the proposal site and/or the ceremony site on the card stock and then tying the velum with a ribbon to it. I haven''t figured out if gluing the picture to the card stock of having it printed on the card stock will work better. I''ll remember the glue is I decide to paste it.

I really like you invitations.

 

[AndyRosse]

Ooooh Rebemdee, it looks fantastic!!!

I wish I had enough patience and creativity to make my own!!

 

[flopkins]

ooooh cute!!! I wish my FI let me have pink in our invites... he was dead set against it... btw what exactly is xyron?! I''ve never heard of it before!

 

[selflove]

They look fantastic!! Way to go!!

 

[Tacori E-ring]

They look great, how long did it take you?

Date: 2/14/2006 11:26:38 AM
Author: Caribou
Thanks for the advice. I''m actually sticking a picture of the proposal site and/or the ceremony site on the card stock and then tying the velum with a ribbon to it. I haven''t figured out if gluing the picture to the card stock of having it printed on the card stock will work better. I''ll remember the glue is I decide to paste it.

Print the picture directly on the card stock. I would use grommets (one in each upper corner) to attach the vellum.

 

[Rebemdee]

Xyron is this cool thing that you get at Michaels or a craft store. It's a little machine that you put a cartridge in, and turn the crank, and anything you put in it comes out a sticker! Let's say you wanted to make a poster board of you and your fiance's kid pics at the wedding, you could get a matte or poster board, make copies of the photos, run them through Xyron and they would come out as stickers. You could just stick them to the board and you are done! There is a permanent cartridge, and a repositionable cartridge that becomes permanent in 24 hours. We ran the cardstock through xyron, put the ribbon with the charm at the top and stuck the ends of the ribbon to the xyron on the back, and then stuck the whole thing on the vellum. Super easy, and no wrinkling like there was with glue or spray adhesive. I love Xyron! Now I want to make stickers out of everything!

Once we got the cardstock printed, it took about 4 hours to cut all the ribbon, thread the charms, fold the vellum, and stick everything together. Two of us worked on the assembly part. I made 50 invitations.

 

[cpster]

Great job! They turned out wonderful and I love how you used the charms and heart clips. May I ask where you got the heart clips?

 

[Rebemdee]

I got them at Michaels, they are in the scrapbooking section near the grommets. There are 24 in a package and cost something like 2.99/package. They are like big paperclips, and hold even thin ribbon pretty well.

 

[Rebemdee]

Here''s what they look like.

 

[rms]

your invites look fantastic!