Dr. Lostreality
03-23-2009, 11:13 AM
My BFF Amy has been working for a while on hand carving a stamp for our wedding invitations (she makes cards as a hobby, and is really good at them), and this weekend I visited her in Maryland and we finally sat down and made them all!
It was really fun- first we stamped these cards with white ink, then we put embossing powder on them and I heated the cards with this dryer thing so the embossing powder would melt and emboss (it's really cool to watch, at one point it reaches a tipping point and goes from a powder to this gold stuff). Then I inked in all the suns, and Amy inked the hills and the sky (we made 3 different stencils out of plastic so that we could ink them). The inside has this green paper with the invitation details on it in dark brown ink. I attached all the green papers to the invitations with photo-mounting stickers.
So the invitations are done- all that is left is putting the invites in the envelopes and sticking on the return address labels I just made (they are already addressed and stamped and have direction sheets in them)- should be able to finish that tonight and send them out tomorrow maybe. Amy also gave me this sealing wax stuff and a cool stamp that looks like a house, so I'm going to experiment with that later and see how that works, may or may not use it.
Anyway, here is a picture of an invitation! Each one is slightly different, but this is generally what they look like:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/lostreality/IMG_2222.jpg
It was really fun- first we stamped these cards with white ink, then we put embossing powder on them and I heated the cards with this dryer thing so the embossing powder would melt and emboss (it's really cool to watch, at one point it reaches a tipping point and goes from a powder to this gold stuff). Then I inked in all the suns, and Amy inked the hills and the sky (we made 3 different stencils out of plastic so that we could ink them). The inside has this green paper with the invitation details on it in dark brown ink. I attached all the green papers to the invitations with photo-mounting stickers.
So the invitations are done- all that is left is putting the invites in the envelopes and sticking on the return address labels I just made (they are already addressed and stamped and have direction sheets in them)- should be able to finish that tonight and send them out tomorrow maybe. Amy also gave me this sealing wax stuff and a cool stamp that looks like a house, so I'm going to experiment with that later and see how that works, may or may not use it.
Anyway, here is a picture of an invitation! Each one is slightly different, but this is generally what they look like:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v162/lostreality/IMG_2222.jpg