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I'm confused, when you say they printed super small, are you saying the text is small or the insert itself is small? Did you put in pre-cut sizes, or are you printing first & cutting second?
I actually used word for all my inserts & it was a PAIN! Mainly its b/c it was Word LOL! But, I found the best way was to pre-cut the inserts & print on those. I have an HP Photosmart printer & adjusted a borderless custom size. In addition, on word I customized the size too & with a little tweaking, everything turned out fantastic!
Here is an exaple of my different size inserts, just to give you an idea of what I was able to do/print.
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I just received a sample DIY invitation kit for the 5 x 7 pocketfold style from cards and pockets and had the same reaction as you - the inserts are QUITE small!! They are very skinny and the RSVP card is small - much moreso than I had anticipated.
Even the 5 x 7 pock fold "folder" (sorry, I don't know what the folder is technically called!) is smaller than I thought.
Are you doing to make your own folder, or ordering pocketfolders from them? (I thought their quality was very good, btw). One thing I will say about the side with the pocket - it's an actual little pocket, versus just tucking the inserts into that side (does this make sense?)...so the inserts have to be skinnier than if you created a pocket fold that just folded up and just held the inserts. I'll see if I can find a pic to illustrate what I mean - but it reminded me of the back pocket of jeans, the way the pocket is set onto the jeans material. I thought it would be more like the cardstock had been folded, and you just set the inserts in there, vs. a little pocket.
The actual pocket size is really small with the Cards and Pockets pocketfolds. I bought a sample 5x7 pocketfold from both Cards and Pockets and one from Paper and More and the pocket from cardsandpockets was significantly smaller, which may be why it's looking tiny when you have them cut in front of you.When do your cardsandpockets stuff come in? You can double check sizes then.
With that said, as long as they fit, I think it'll be just fine! I bought our envelopes from Cards and Pockets and love their products!
ANNIEAAA:: The text is in no way small at all it just seems like the WHOLE RSVP insert is small when printed. I was going to print first & cut after but I did not think of pre-cutting the insert before printing tho. Maybe i should try that instead.
I would definitely wait till you get your pocketfolds in, because I'm sure it'll look better porportionally when you can see it all together!
JESSTAGIRL:: I think thats my best bet rigth now. That way i can see it all together all at once & decide from there. :) THANKS!
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you'll still be able to design them yourself, it'll just be easier to "see" it all. Cards and Pockets doesn't take long to ship, so if you ordered them last week I bet you'll get them pretty soon! No fears - I think youll still be able to DIY them!
I think it will look more cohesive when you put it all together. 3.5 x 5 can seem small since we're so used to the 4x6 size these days. 3.5 5 is a pretty normal size...i don't think it's too small!
I think you're off to a great start...if you see the project through you'll see it all come together!
I DIYd my 5x7 pocketfolds and those measurements sound right to me. I printed, then cut b/c I didn't feel like trying to feed small pieces of paper into my printer. I can't remember if I used "cards and pockets" or "paper and more".
One thing to consider is envelope size for the RSVP. I almost messed this up big time by making my RSVP cards bigger than the envelopes. Order your RSVP envelopes and make sure the cards will fit. I ended up having to make my RSVP cards a bit narrower than the rest of my inserts.
Feel free to PM me if you have any other questions!
That is a standard size for RSVP cards. They fit in the 4bar envelopes.
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Last week i was on cardsandpockets.com & found EVERYTHING i wanted for us to make our pocketfolds. Took down all the information for the size of the inserts, invitation & thank you cards, ordered a sample of the pocketfold & paper & started designing.
I have been using Microsoft Picture It! Premium 10 [ used this for doing up my Save The Dates & Monograms ] and just recently learnign the ropes AGAIN of my Corel Paint Shop Pro & Corel Photoshop. Now i have done all the insert designs & have them the correct setting for sizes & ready to print. So over the weekend i go ahead started printing the RSVP. This is suppost to be 3.5" wide by 5" for my pocketfold. I print it out & its SUPER small. It doesn't even seem like that size.
After printing out 3-4 sheets of the same RSVP i gave up. Wasn't sure if i was doing something wrong or what was going on. Now i am super frusterated because it doesn't look rigth & i feel like i just wasted my time.
My question(s): Should i just print them out all as is and see if they fit in the way they are suppost to [ maybe its just the look that makes them seem smaller ] or maybe i should just pay to have someone else do the printing & assembling. Even tho as much as i WANT to do this DIY project, it doesn't seem like its workign out for me.
PLEASE, if anyone has anny suggestions or maybe even advise for what i can do, it woudl be greatly appreacitated!