by | Feb 20, 2014 | DIY Embellishments, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Paper & Card Stock, Wedding Speciality Paper
If you like glitter, we’ve got some ideas for you (and your wedding day). There are so many ways you can accessorise your various wedding elements with things that glitter and shimmer, but what about your DIY wedding invitations, stationery for the invitations package as well as those to be used during the wedding too. You could easily add some marvellous accents that are creative for a memorable look. Here are some ideas we came up that may just be ideal for your DIY wedding.
First of all, there are many types of glittered speciality paper available for handmade weddings. When you are choosing to DIY, consider which design or pattern, or even quality and colours of glittered speciality paper suits your wedding vision the best, and then take it from there. In terms of colour, you get gold and silver being the likely choices, as well as charcoal, white (with silver), and blue to name a few. You also get a choice of design and pattern, from the standard stripes to flourishes and swirls, paisley and intricate lace like designs. Take your pick and make your DIY wedding invitations and stationery one to remember.
Now, when you purchase glittered speciality paper, there are various ways you can use it. Basically, it comes down to your creativity and vision. But here are some of our ideas.
The great thing about glitter paper is that you can easily DIY it. It can be used as a backdrop, a layer or separator between two layers for definition, or even a border. It doesn’t always have to be straight or square in shape, you can add dimension to it simply with a scissor and a guide. If you wanted to feature a brooch in the centre of your DIY wedding invitation or even your order of service card, you could fix it on a square, circle or scalloped base.
Another way to do it up would be to create a sense of pop between layers of normal paper or card stock so that there’s an element of excitement and surprise in your DIY wedding stationery. It’s the same with borders; however they too need not be straight edged. Consider a flourished or scalloped design and make things interesting.
With glittered speciality paper, you can easily add a sense of oomph to your DIY stationery creations.
by | Feb 12, 2014 | DIY Boxes, DIY Embellishments, DIY Envelopes, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Wedding Invitations
Planning a wedding is fun, but when you have complete artistic direction over your wedding, now it’s a whole different ball game. It’s not just going to be fun because when you get your family and friends involved in the process it’s going to be a ball. DIY wedding invitations, wedding stationery, decor, fun wedding activities, there is so much you can do it make a beautiful handmade wedding come alive. Let’s find out some great popular ideas for you to try out for your DIY wedding.
The first place you should start would be to think up a great wedding theme with lots of handmade touches, unique accents and definitely something new for your invitees and guests to appreciate. You can start off with your DIY wedding invitations and the accompanying invitation accessories, use the same colour or style design in the rest of your wedding using exact or similar designs with the stationery, decor and more.
With the wedding invitations, you are offered various types of options across shapes, colours, textures (and speciality paper), envelope styles, hardcover designs, to the way they fold. You are also offered the option of choosing whether to start from the wedding paper itself, to choosing blank folded cards (of different varieties), to ones that are DIY wedding invitation templates (that are delivered to you with the wedding invitations and even guest information printed so that all you need to do is add your unique accents and send them off). One thing you can do to accentuate your DIY wedding invitations package or envelope would be to add a DIY envelope liner for that added pop as your invitees open it up, or even a personalised envelope seal. The rest of your DIY wedding stationery can also take after the same look you have devised for your DIY wedding invitation for your theme to flow.
Other ways you can add to your wedding’s look by opting to DIY would be to work on what will be included on the wedding day itself, such as the wedding stationery we just talked about being a lot like the invitations, to the various decor elements and not to mention the bombonieres. Presentation is important and the same applies here. What about DIY paper wedding bombonieres or even clear wedding bomboniere boxes that can be assembled easily so that your guests can see the wonder within. These are ways you can really add to your wedding theme and make it all stand out.
Stay tuned in to our blog for more insight into how your DIY wedding can be made extra special!
by | Feb 6, 2014 | DIY Boxes, DIY Embellishments, DIY Envelopes, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Wedding Invitations
If you are brainstorming on how to make your DIY wedding a hit, we have some ideas and tips for you to add to your DIY wedding invitations and stationery to make it a little bit more fun and unique.
Playing with Shapes
Shapes are such fun, aren’t they? You can easily transform you DIY wedding invitations and other stationery into fun wedding items by using those scissors (or possibly even a cutter). They either can be square, rectangular, round, triangular or even a hexagon. The possibilities are endless. Get yourself some lovely wedding paper, be it the smooth, with a sheen or textured or even speciality paper and make it count by adding them to your look inspired by shape. Geometry and dimensions are a big trend nowadays, so find out if you can play with those as inspiration to make your DIY wedding invitation something truly unique.
Add a Little Flair
There are many ways you can add flair to your DIY wedding invitations and other stationery, whether it’s accompanying the wedding invites or for the day of the wedding. One such way would be to use trims to a) add said flair and/or b) tie it all together. Lace is one such trim that you can use. There are many types of lace out there and various styles to it. It can be used as a border, a belly band or even as the base in a layered handmade wedding invitation. But you could also find lace that is dramatic, such as a considerably big piece of design such as paisley or damask, cut out that specific design and past it onto your DIY wedding invitations and then glue on rhinestones or pearl beads to add a finishing touch.
Put it in a Box
Presentation is important whether it’s your wedding day or any other day in your personal life. The way you present yourself matters, and as your wedding invitation is an extension of the love you have for one another, shouldn’t it be given the respect of having a great means of presentation too? Why not opt for an easy to assemble DIY wedding invitation box to really set the tone of. This will amplify the look and also let your invitees know the thought you put into such a wonderful DIY wedding invite.
It’s these little add-on and accents that are truly the memorable pieces that when coupled with the shape of your DIY wedding invitations and the way you present it (whether it’s within a custom envelope or invitation box), it jumps out at you and surprises you in a fantastic way.
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by | Jan 21, 2014 | DIY Embellishments, DIY Envelopes, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Wedding Invitations
Every bride wants her wedding to stand out from the many she has attended or has seen before. One of the first things you would probably do to add a unique touch would be with opting for DIY wedding invitations and stationery, then being inspired by those and your wedding theme to carry it forward onto your wedding bombonieres, table decorations and more.
Often, you’d find the same styling, paper design, quality, and also embellishments, appliqués & accents throughout a DIY wedding. It’s great because you know how much thought and effort has gone into designing a beautiful and memorable day, especially when your guests tell you how they loved all the wonderful little surprises and details everywhere they turned. Let’s find out how this can be true for your DIY wedding too, and the first place to start would be with the DIY wedding invitations!
The DIY Wedding Invitations
DIY wedding invitations come in so many shapes, sizes, looks, styles, designs, and the list keeps going. But, it’s definitely one thing and that is unique! You are fusing together the personal design preferences of two souls madly in love with one another and each of their design inspirations count when doing them up. So, when it comes to the overall finished look of your DIY wedding invitations, you will see various things that either the bride or the groom chose, and how they fuse together beautifully to form this work of art that is their handmade representation of the most beautiful day of their lives.
Choice of Paper and Card Stock
The look of your DIY wedding invitations rely on the quality of your paper or card stock, where some couples opt for a smooth finish, while some opt for a textured or sheen finish. These variants work well with a choice colour, but you are also allowed the option of choosing speciality paper to make your DIY wedding invitation designs pop! Whether its screen printed, flocked, embossed, glittered or more, choosing how and where you are going to use these wisely is important. Do up a draft of what you want, and run it by your closest friends and family for their opinion on the best choice of speciality or standard paper/card stock to use for you invites.
Presentation of your DIY Wedding Invitations Package
When you have a complete wedding invitation as well as the accessories to go with them such as the reply card, gift registry and wishing well card, and the directions & accommodations cards, you will need something to enclose your DIY wedding invitations package. Presentation is important. That’s why at DIY Invitations, we have made available to you envelopes that match the colour, shape and quality of the wedding invitations sizes and templates we have on offer, as well as invitation boxes for the luxury DIY wedding invitations. You can customise the outer look of the envelope as well as the back flap with your choice of personal touch, be it with an envelope sticker or a custom illustration, where as with an invitation box, you can add some ribbon and a beautiful diamante or faux pearl cluster embellishment to really add that touch of beauty.
by | Jan 7, 2014 | DIY Embellishments, DIY Invitations Ideas, DIY Wedding Invitations
With embellishments, you can enhance the look of any DIY wedding invitation card with a placement of a cluster, brooch or buckle. You can either couple this with a ribbon, a belly band, or have it just there alongside your speciality paper. A lovely trend that’s out there is the gate-fold card stock wedding invitations that are embellished with two clusters and a ribbon that is clasped to each cluster and goes around the DIY wedding invitation. This is usually accompanied by a classy DIY wedding invitation box for that oomph effect. DIY doesn’t mean you need to compromise on style. It’s an affordable way to a luxury handmade wedding invitation of your dreams.
The meaning of ’embellished’ means to say ‘the attractiveness of an item being heightened with the addition of decorative details or features‘. This can be any item that you feel would add a lovely touch to your DIY invitations. Usually, you start on adding the decorative items once you have completed the initial steps of creating your unique and custom wedding invitations, which is ensuring the invitation wording is there, as well if it’s a folded card, making sure everything is folded and aligned. After the basics are done, you can add on your embellishments to your DIY wedding invitation card. Like we said before, it you want to a beautiful high end look to your budget friendly invite card for your wedding, then go with a crisp satin ribbon and embellish the ends that meet in the centre of the gate-fold card with brooches or cluster, and finish it off by including it in an invitation box. But there are more ways to embellish your invitations than one.
The way you embellish your DIY wedding invitations is your own interpretation on how a decorative element can enhance the look of your idea. Let’s say you have a beautiful piece of paper or card stock, to which you can either have the DIY wedding invitations retailer print the invitation wording onto it (that is customisable to your liking which is done if they are a reputable company), print it on your own printer or handwrite it or (or employ a calligrapher). After this step, you can add your little trims and embellishments. Clusters, brooches, diamante rhinestone appliqués, metallic pen doodles or illustrations (or even in pencils or watercolours), ribbons and much more.
These are all things you can do to enhance the look of your wonderful and fabulously unique DIY wedding invitations. Let us know if you have any more great ideas to add!
