Erin's Wedding Stationary Extravaganza! Part 1

My sister got married!
The wedding was in July and it was so amazing!

My mom and I helped Erin with a lot of the wedding prep, including decorations, organization, vendor details, and of course wedding stationary! I made her save-the-dates, invitations, thank you cards, programs, seating cards, table signs, candy table signs, and guest book/advice cards.

By the time I was done with everything, I was kinda tired of looking at periwinkle and hydrangeas. Which is why it has taken me this long to get this post up. But now that I've had some time away from periwinkle and I've done some other projects, I am excited to show you my largest (and most fun!) project to date.

Presenting...

Erin's Wedding Stationary Extravaganza!
Part 1: Invitations and Wedding Thank You cards

Since I had already made her save-the-dates, I kind of knew what layout I would use for the invitations. I printed the text, stamped the double-stamp hydrangea in the corner, matted on black cardstock, and attached stamped vellum over the top.

Here's a close-up of the double-stamped hydrangea. I go over the details of the double stamping in my save-the-dates post. I had to print out a lot of trials before finding the exact right curve for the text to go around the stamp.

The vellum overlay had hydrangeas stamped with clear ink. It made a watermark image on the vellum that looked really neat in person, but would not photograph for me! I had to really distort the colors in this picture so I could show the slight watermarked image on the vellum. I then attached the vellum to the invitation with small silver brads.

The RSVP cards are almost identical to the save-the-date cards, and the direction cards are just printed on white cardstock.

Erin and I had similarly-sized weddings, and I did make all the invitations for my own wedding, but oh my, this was a big project! I made 145 invitations and RSVPs when all was said and done, and I only have 2 left over for my portfolio!

It wasn't until I had finished all 100 save-the-dates, 145 invitations, and 145 RSVPs that I had the genius idea to scan the stamped hydrangea and just print it on the paper with the text.

*face palm*

So that's what I did for the thank you cards. Which made it a million times easier, especially because I had to make 100 of those! I enjoyed adding a little bit of digital design into some traditional paper cards. It let me get the exact look I wanted without worrying about variables like ink coverage and user error lining up the images.
I used the same periwinkle and black cardstocks from the invitations, but I added some silver cardstock as well.

Erin loved how her stationary turned out and I am pretty pleased as well!

Check back next week and I'll have Part 2 of Erin's Wedding Stationary Extravaganza!

Until then, Happy Crafting!