Elegant Layered Homemade Wedding Invitations
Elegant layered homemade wedding invitations are not that difficult to make. With the help of your own word processing software, a free font or two and some stylish card you can turn out some lovely invitations like these offerings without breaking the bank. See our DIY tutorial for better in depth instructions and tips to make this style of invitation.
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A Golden Invitation
By selecting some beautiful patterned paper, coordinating
colored cardstock and plain vellum paper you can create invitations like
these. My friend and her husband to be made these invitations right in
their kitchen.
Directions
They borrowed the use of a portable paper guillotine to trim three different papers to size and printed the wedding information on to the vellum using their own home printer.
The patterned paper and vellum were adhered to the card with a spray adhesive that you can pick up at any craft store and also the small heart shaped two pronged brad at the top.
The finishing touch on these invites is a small adhesive magnetic strip on the reverse side so that you can stick it to the fridge as a reminder of the upcoming event.
They fit perfectly into the Gold DL sized envelopes purchase separately from another store. This is one of the benefits of mixing and matching your invitation supplies.
The biggest cost involved making these invitations as with any diy project was time, so if you're going to make your own you should make sure you have plenty.
Simple Stamped Invitations
A couple of simply stated wedding invitations by Charity. The invitation details have been printed onto white cardstock - 3 to a page, cut and then matted with co-ordinating colored card stock to add strength.
How to create the accents
After the text has been printed on to the top layer, a couple of rubber stamping techniques have been used to embellish the cards. The first is to stamp directly onto the top layer. There is some risk of ruining your invitation as you can sometimes stamp a less than perfect image (sometimes a downright horrible image). The second is to stamp the image on to white cardstock or coordinating card (far less risk), cut around the image leaving a small border and then sticking the finished accent to the top layer of the invite. A combination of these two techniques have also been used.
Rubber stamps by 'Simply Johanna'
Made By Charity Hassel
Jacksonville, Florida
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