Friday, March 27, 2009
Our Invitations: Part I
After searching for the proper balance of quality and price, I finally committed myself to a stationary purchase.
I created this mock-up by cannibalizing images from Paperandmore. We're cutting thin bellybands from a thin golden paper from California Paper Goods Company. This is the best choice; it is translucent, and the sheen of the gold paper works well with the pearlescent pocketfolds.
We ordered the majority of our stationary from Paperandmore, and our envelopes from LCI Paper. Specifically, we went with Paperandmore because of their glorious A-7 bronze-brown paperfolds. Not only are these cards heavy, smooth, with the perfect metallic... but they were quite affordable.
For $2.06 per person (including shipping, but not including postage for the invitations), we'll have supplies to create our ceremony programs, pocketfold invitations (including RSVP cards, two enclosure cards, map, decorative elements, and envelope set), and menus. Fabulous!
Paperandmore cut our cardstock to two custom sizes. It was absolutely worth the extra $7 to know I wouldn't have to cut four hundred sheets of cardstock, even with our industrial (cartoonist quality) papercutter.
Our spring green matting (the actual color is called Green Fairway) was cut to 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 to neatly fill our 5 x 7 invitation. Our actual invitations, enclosures, and RSVP postcards will be printed on 6 1/16 x 4 1/16 Cream cover stock. The enclosures and RSVP cards will be additionally trimmed to layer nicely in the pocketfold, but that will be an easy papercutter job that I can delegate to Christopher.
I'm excited to start crafting. I have a week off for Spring Break in April. What a perfect time to find a large table at the Cartoon School, set out our paper-cutters, adhesives, t-square, bone folder, corner rounder, a hot thermos of chai, and MP3 player loaded with the Steve Miller Band and Three Dog Night.
I created this mock-up by cannibalizing images from Paperandmore. We're cutting thin bellybands from a thin golden paper from California Paper Goods Company. This is the best choice; it is translucent, and the sheen of the gold paper works well with the pearlescent pocketfolds.
We ordered the majority of our stationary from Paperandmore, and our envelopes from LCI Paper. Specifically, we went with Paperandmore because of their glorious A-7 bronze-brown paperfolds. Not only are these cards heavy, smooth, with the perfect metallic... but they were quite affordable.
For $2.06 per person (including shipping, but not including postage for the invitations), we'll have supplies to create our ceremony programs, pocketfold invitations (including RSVP cards, two enclosure cards, map, decorative elements, and envelope set), and menus. Fabulous!
Paperandmore cut our cardstock to two custom sizes. It was absolutely worth the extra $7 to know I wouldn't have to cut four hundred sheets of cardstock, even with our industrial (cartoonist quality) papercutter.
Our spring green matting (the actual color is called Green Fairway) was cut to 6 3/4 x 4 3/4 to neatly fill our 5 x 7 invitation. Our actual invitations, enclosures, and RSVP postcards will be printed on 6 1/16 x 4 1/16 Cream cover stock. The enclosures and RSVP cards will be additionally trimmed to layer nicely in the pocketfold, but that will be an easy papercutter job that I can delegate to Christopher.
I'm excited to start crafting. I have a week off for Spring Break in April. What a perfect time to find a large table at the Cartoon School, set out our paper-cutters, adhesives, t-square, bone folder, corner rounder, a hot thermos of chai, and MP3 player loaded with the Steve Miller Band and Three Dog Night.
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