Thank you to those of you who added your invites! They all look great!
Wendy - these are really great! They are very much like what I want to do!!
Did you use cardsandpockets? Was it hard to get everything printed properly? Do you have any tips, pros or cons you could share? thanks so much! Also, would you be willing to share the text of the inserts?
Kelly - wow your engagement announcements are lovely and your invitations are very, very elegant! thank you for shairing them!
Leah
Thank you! We did use Cards & Pockets for most of the supplies including the pocket fold, the insert paper, and the actual invite paper. Other than that, we made HUGE use of Micheal's. That's where we got the remaining supplies including the polka dot ribbon belly band, paper flowers, yellow colored paper and polka dot paper. Oh and the glue tape too!
We printed everything at our "work" (we're grad students so really at our school) on a laser jet printed which I highly recommend in place of a classic ink jet because the ink doesn't smear as easily. Also, we didn't use any sort of shimmery metallic paper where we printed, because that would cause the ink to smear even with the laser jet printer, even when "dry"!
My wonderful DF printed out all of the inserts for us, which includes measuring the lengths to make sure they would all sit perfectly and evenly when against one another. The insert paper you get from Cards & Pockets is great because it's already measured to fit in the 4x7 pocket so all you need to do is cut the height to what you desire (we did it using a paper cutter to ensure straight lines). The actual invites were printed on their bulk 8x11.5 paper, where we fit about 2 invites per sheet...then we cut them using the paper cutter on very light dotted lines that we printed around the invite to show us where to make the cuts.
We figured out the border sizes our own. I wanted to make sure the polka dots were visible, so we made that 1/4" and the yellow was half that at 1/8".
I really enjoyed making our own. We originally went through an Etsy seller, but the experience was horrible for us and she just didn't "get" my vision of what I wanted. So when we took it on ourselves, I got to include everything I wanted...and I'm NOT crafty at ALL!
I hope this helps any DisBrides lookin to make their own invites.
Here are the JPEG files of the inserts in order of how they appeared in the invite.
Response Card:
Map
Schedule of Events
Wedding Day Itinerary
Additional Info (really tiny to read but just has additional info regarding discounted ticket prices, other Orlando attractions, and our top 3 hotel choices for guests)