by | Jul 23, 2014 | DIY Envelopes
Are you planning a truly exciting day for what many refer to as the ‘Happiest Day of their Lives’? Well, that’s great, especially if you are a handy DIY Bride. There are many ways that you can inject fun into your wedding day; one such way is by creating excitement leading up to the day with your DIY wedding invitations. Creating something fun is easy especially with the help of the DIY Invitations store. Enlist the help of DIY wedding envelope liners to add a little wow factor to your DIY wedding invitations. Find everything you might need for to add a little magic to your DIY wedding invitations and stationery for your handmade Australian wedding!
Types of DIY Wedding Invitations Envelope Liners
Envelope liners give your wedding invitees a bit of a pleasant surprise as they open up the envelope to take a glimpse of the contents within. If you have selected a wedding theme already and if it revolves around a colour and pattern, the best possible thing you should or could do is use the chosen colours or pattern and use it in your DIY wedding envelope liners. The DIY Invitations wedding envelope liners fit into the 150mm square envelope perfectly.
However, that’s not all that’s available; you get the added bonus of also including the Bride and Groom’s names onto the liner, even a one-liner or personalised message. You can also include instructions for the designers at DIY Invitations so that you get a personalised DIY wedding invitation envelope via the online system provided by DIY Invitations. Isn’t that great?
The variety of DIY wedding envelope liners are many from solid colours to patterns such as damask, swirls and stripes, as well as finishes such as foiled in metallic gold. Take a pick of what is available, and match it as best as you can with your DIY wedding invitations creations. These DIY wedding envelope liners are delivered to you as part of a flat pack, where you can use either double-sided tape or a thin line of glue to fix the liner onto the inner flap sleeve of the DIY wedding invitation envelope.
Accessories for DIY Wedding Invitations Envelopes
Apart from the pop that DIY wedding envelope liners give, you can also add to it with the help of accessories such as envelope stickers and seals. Personalise them to match the look of your DIY wedding invitation in terms of colour and font face, and include the names of the couple, a monogram or even a short message.
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!
