by | Jul 30, 2014 | DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Paper & Card Stock, DIY Wedding Invitations, Wedding Invitations Ideas, Wedding Speciality Paper
A simple thank you goes a long way. When you take the time out of your busy schedule to send out a personal and sincere note of thanks, that means a lot. In this blog post, we will look at a beautiful and yet simple way you can deliver a truly personal wedding thank you card to your guests. The basics include DIY wedding thank you cards, a monogram stamp, thermal embossing powder, and copies of some of your wedding photos of your choosing.
Essentially, the output will be a DIY wedding thank you card pack, which will include a DIY embossed finish, a set of the best wedding photos, the envelopes and final additions that can include a tag and a ribbon, to make the entire bundle presented prettily. The materials you will need for the entire DIY thank you card project includes the following.
- DIY Wedding Thank You Card Kit (as per the quantity you require)
- Envelopes as per the Thank You Card sizing
- Tags (Luggage, Custom Tags, or Paper to cut out tags, even Thank You Tags will suffice)
- A “Thank You” Stamp
- Custom Monogram Stamp
- Copies of Selection of Your Wedding Photos
- Watermark Ink
- Ink (Colour of Your Choosing)
- Thermal Embossing Powder
- Heat Gun
- Ribbon or String
To get started, take care of the stamping so that you do it neatly. Start with the “Thank You” stamps, using tags, such as luggage tags, or custom tags in the sizing you want, or cut out tags from paper you have acquired. Stamp the tags with the regular ink by pressing it down on the paper firmly, but make sure to remove the stamp quickly so that you do not create ink blotches in the free space and keep it aside to dry completely.
To emboss your monogram onto the wedding thank you card, use the monogram stamp with watermark ink, press it down firmly on the paper and then remove it quickly. Sprinkle or shake the thermal embossing powder over the card in the area of the watermark monogram, until it is covered. If you want to remove the excess powder, merely tap on the card and scoop it back into the container of the powder. However, do make sure that you do not leave behind any specks of powder on the other areas of the card (except where it is intended) and brush it off. After you have carried this out, use the heat gun, turn it on and melt the embossing powder, which should take a few minutes to have it ready.
After you have a completed wedding thank you card with the wording written inside, you can proceed to put together your wedding thank you package, which includes the photographs inserted into the thank you card, all included in the envelope. Following this, you can tie your ribbon or string in an appealing manner and finish it off with the ‘Thank You’ tag. Now, you have a beautiful and personal DIY thank you card, ideal to let your guests know how much their presence at your wedding meant to you and your spouse.
by | Jul 15, 2014 | DIY Embellishments, DIY Envelopes, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Paper & Card Stock, DIY Wedding Invitations, Wedding Speciality Paper
Did he pop the ultimate questions? Did you squeal in delight with a resounding “YES“! It’s time to let everyone know, isn’t it? You can throw a lovely engagement party! Invite your loved ones and close friends or even the people you are planning to invite for the wedding via some beautifully done up DIY engagement invitations. How does that sound?
If you are wondering, how the DIY Invitations online store can help you with your DIY engagement invitations, we have some wonderful news. With two ways you can go about it, it’s quite easy and not to mention affordable. One would be doing it from scratch whilst the other would be to use the printable templates to come up with great DIY engagement invitations to celebrate the proposal and this great occasion of two unions taking the first step to spending the rest of their lives together and a happily ever after. Let’s get to it, shall we?
Materials for Your DIY Engagement Invitations
At DIY Invitations, you’ll find that you can purchase items for your DIY engagement invitations without a hitch. What you’ll need would be some paper and card stock that’s easily available on the online DIY invitations store along with speciality paper too if you are looking to add a bit of glamour onto the DIY engagement invitations, as well as embellishments and not forgetting the envelopes to send the invitations in.
Apart from these, you may need a pencil, colour pens, watercolours and other materials to bring colour into the design, a scissor or guillotine cutter, and not forgetting other creative materials that you can use to accessorise the look. These items will depend on your creative genius. Some creative DIY brides have used pressed dried flowers and leaf skeletons, to seeds and eco-friendly items.
DIY Printable Engagement Invitation Templates
If you don’t have enough time to do your DIY engagement invitations from scratch but would love to add your own personal brand of magic with an affordable price tag, then opt for DIY printable engagement invitation templates. What it’s all about is you are able to get your personalised engagement invitation wording printed onto the DIY engagement invitations without a hitch as per the template you have chosen with your pick of text placement and colour selection. It’s really quite easy, because they’ll be delivered to your address as flat pack DIY engagement invitations and all you’ll need to do then is to add the design touches, be it with pencils, watercolours or any creative method you have set your heart on.
by | Jul 8, 2014 | DIY Embellishments, DIY Envelopes, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Paper & Card Stock, DIY Wedding Invitations
Creativity is a beautiful thing and so are weddings, especially when creativity has been put into good use. One great fact about wedding nowadays is how brides are getting more and more involved in all the little details of wedding planning. With increased interest in DIY wedding, you find yourself with many personalised and customised wedding elements that are precious and sentimental, such as DIY wedding invitations and stationery. Today, we will be looking into DIY wedding invitations templates and how it can be of use to you, and ways in which you can put them to use.
With the internet, looking for inspiration is a breeze. Not only can you find so many ideas from wedding decor to stationery and also dresses, floral decor and so much more, but you can also find ways in which you can try out various designs to make your personalised element come to life. You can see this in terms of wedding dresses, and definitely with wedding invitations. If you have a template design in mind, what you can do is to draft the design and go in search of DIY wedding invitation kits and templates that go in line with it, and from there, you can add your accessories, embellishments and trims and see how they go best with the template you have in mind.
There are many DIY wedding invitations templates and kits out there, and these includes the likes of no fold, bi-fold and tri fold cards, to square, rectangular, vertical, horizontal, pocket wedding invitations and more. Most of these DIY wedding invitation templates also come with measurements of either 180 mm x 96 mm (DL tri-fold/vertical), 145 mm x 145 mm (square), 134 mm x 134 mm (square vertical/horizontal/tri-fold/no-fold), 135 mm x 280 mm (square insert fold), 210 mm x 105 mm (DL vertical), 200 mm x 90 mm (DL no-fold), 180 mm x 90 mm (DL no-fold). Not forgetting the envelopes, they are available either in 220 mm x 110 mm for DL variety whilst the square DIY invites comes with a matching sized envelope, plain or in print.
The likes of DIY Invitations allows you to customise the text in terms of colour, font typeface and the content itself prior to printing, and if you want to be sure before ordering, you can have samples delivered to you. Pick out your favourites from the DIY wedding invitations & stationery options and see which templates fit your liking & style, and order yourself a sample so you can see it for yourself. With DIY wedding invitation templates, you have a lot of fun doing up your wedding.
by | Jul 1, 2014 | DIY Embellishments, DIY Paper & Card Stock, Wedding Invitations Ideas, Wedding Speciality Paper
Are you looking to add a little spark to your wedding day? We’ve got a great and easy wedding invitation idea we can’t wait to share with you! Metallic is such a hot trend right now, and our sister company, DreamDay Invitations, has a great new foil wedding invitation collection that is easily customisable in so many fabulous ways! Read on to find out how you can get your own beautifully done up foil stamped wedding invitations!
These wedding invitation designs span across various styles and themes, ranging from elegant and traditional to contemporary and modern, using retro, flourish and minimalistic design elements and not to mention personalised touches for your wedding to stand out against the rest. All you need to do is follow three simple steps while seated behind your computer and visit the DreamDay Invitations online wedding invitations & stationery shop.
Select the Foil Wedding Invitations & Stationery Accessories
Browse the great selection of foil stamped wedding invitations to select the perfect look for your dream wedding day! Foil wedding invitations look the best against crisp and stark colours, in order for the text to shine through and for legibility. Opt for the likes of the confetti inspired foil wedding invitations for a fun look with a side of glamour.
Select the Choice of Wedding Paper and Foil Colour
Once you have selected the best foil wedding invitations to match your personal style and wedding theme, the next step would be to select the choice of wedding paper it will be printed on as well as the colour and finish of the foil.
Personalise Your Wedding Invitations
The next step to getting your foil wedding invitations ready would be to add your own personal touch to it by typing out the invitation wording of your choice. You can also customise the bride and groom names on the cover/front of the invitation, along with a metallic monogram design (if you’ve chosen a design which features it) and the wedding date.
DreamDay Invitations only requires you to access its online store and go through the simple and easy to use system that allows you to all this and more, from selecting the design, the paper, personalising the wedding invitation and foil finish and colour, and not to mention, the customised printed guest information too. It’s that easy. With worldwide delivery, you can order your foil wedding invitations, and wait for them to arrive in the post. All you need to do from there onwards is to assemble the flat pack into the wedding invitation envelopes provided and stick on a stamp and send it either by post, or even hand deliver it if you’ve opted to use a wedding invitation box!
by | Jun 24, 2014 | DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Paper & Card Stock, DIY Wedding Invitations, Wedding Invitations Ideas, Wedding Speciality Paper
Origami is an oriental style of art and craft, and essentially in definition and translation, it means to say “folding paper”, as “ori” translates to ‘folding’ whilst “gami” means “paper” (a connotation of kami). This Japanese art form has spread throughout the world. The beauty of the creations can truly marvel and the precision and patience it takes to make them truly tests one’s character. Therefore, when you opt to do up your DIY wedding invitations in a unique way, you might want to think of Origami and DIY Wedding Invitations.
There are many types of origami, as well as techniques and materials, which you can use. In addition, when it comes to shapes there also various types you can come up with, whether it is to tie it up with your wedding theme, with the traditional ones being flowers, or even just something the bride and groom cherish and want to use as their wedding theme. In this edition of DIY Invitations Ideas, we have looked into a few ways, types and shapes of origami you can use for your DIY wedding invitation base using paper stock and accessorising with speciality wedding paper. Let us look at what you can do.
1. Cranes
Cranes are considered lucky, and for you to feature a crane on the front facing of your DIY wedding invite would be quite lucky too. Cranes are also one of the popular origami shapes and is considered somewhat easy to implement, once you have gotten the hang of it. Make a few samples before you embark on the final one.
2. Butterflies
Butterflies, whether they are real, photographs or even illustrations, they are all beautiful. For you to come up with something as an origami butterfly is so unique and unusual that could amaze your invitee trying to figure out how you did it. You can find yourself creating simple yet beautiful butterflies with patterned paper, or intricate complex ones as well.
3. Lotus
Lotus flowers are beautiful and are quite intricate depending on the type of origami you choose. No matter which one you choose, your outcome of a beautiful lotus flower will be quite spectacular. You can opt to use one large intricate lotus or many to form a design on your DIY wedding invitation. The choice is up to you.
4. Roses
Roses have always held an esteemed place in wedding planning and even in origami; you will find these beauteous flowers quite popular. Decked in red, white or whichever colour you have chosen and with different folding types for a larger bloom or even bud, you can arrive at a beautiful design for the invite.
5. Hearts
A heart origami is quite appropriate for a wedding, don’t you think? In addition, it can be quite intricate. This carefully folded heart could very well be the centrepiece of your design or even make up a design of its own using various heart origami pieces.
6. Other Shapes
Other shapes that you can make with origami for your DIY wedding invitations include the likes of a windmill, fish, peacock, wreath, seashells, horses, elephants, doves, swans, stars and many more. Start discovering now!
by | Jun 17, 2014 | DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Paper & Card Stock, DIY Wedding Invitations, Wedding Speciality Paper
Art in itself is a varied and diverse topic altogether, but here, we are talking about pencil art in the sense of how it can help in your wedding designs and using it on your DIY wedding invitations. Illustrations are quite the rave with wedding themes and stationery, but this is one style is one that is still very sentimental and rare.
There are many types of pencil art out there, from charcoal to chalk, lead art, doodles and even colour pencil art, which are beautiful when the final masterpiece is revealed. When it comes down to what art is all about, there are many items you can feature on your wedding invitation. From a pencil art portrait of the couple, to details of the couple’s attire, such as the wedding dress sketch, or even illustrations of the wedding venue and various decor elements, that is the focal element of your special day. Usually, you find your wedding theme around a colour or an inspiration from a certain element. It could be the altar you plan on getting married at and the details around it, to the wedding cake topper, which can be anything from the traditional bride & groom to lovebirds, these elements can be found all across your wedding design, and therefore also featured on your wedding invitations and other wedding stationery.
When you are planning on doing up your DIY wedding invitations, all you will need to acquire from your DIY stationery vendor would be the DIY wedding invitation kits (which consists of pre-scored/pre-cut DIY wedding invitations or printable invitation templates), and from thereon, put artistry to the test. If you are an artist in question, then it is up to you to do up some great sketches and designs. If not you can also hire someone who is gifted with the creative skill of pencil art, and have them create a masterpiece for you. If that artist in question is also gifted in calligraphy, then you are crossing out two items on your to-do list, the illustrations and design, as well as the invitation wording that needs to be done on your DIY wedding invitations.
For those couples who are getting married at great landmarks in Australia, your DIY wedding invitations can feature them so that everyone will know where you are getting married from the moment they have your wedding invite in hand. If you are planning to have your ceremony at the Sydney Harbour, then by all means, feature the beauty of architecture of this great landmark as your focal element on your wedding invite using pencil art. Like so, there are so many ways you can do up your DIY wedding invitations and stationery. Think of the great possibilities, and try them out through samples before committing to it and clear all doubt.
