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posted 3 years ago in Beehive
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    yujai       Seattle

    After 2 months of torture, my invitations are finally ready!! My gosh, nightmare is finally over!!! Yeah!!!!

    I made everything myself except the letterpressed front & back cover.  I even trimmed the yellow stock myself! 

    my fabulous invitation! DIY heavy! :  wedding invitation diy custom design 2571893109 448f4212d3 invitation cover

    my fabulous invitation! DIY heavy! :  wedding invitation diy custom design 2580009702 D626807313 invitation

    Invitation:

    cover & back cover - letterpressed by a local printer

    insert - doubled sided printed by myself using gocco 

    map - digitally printed by a laser printer

    envelopes - decorated with a cusotm-made embosser

    more details @ Life as a h4 

     

     
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    bride    July 2008 and December 2008   Southern California

    wow!! they are beautiful! such cute colors too!

     
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    edb    10/2010   Baltimore, MD

    Those are gorgeous. 

    The little tabbys that the cover has to hold the yellow card? did you put those in or did the card come with those?  Or is it some kind of hole punch?

     
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    sweetart    Fall 2008  

    Those are beautiful!! How long they take to complete? I'd love some more details if you'd be willing to share.

     
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    snmcdowell    9-13-08   Chicago

    Lovely! How did you do the corners?

     
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    ablossoms    april or may 2009  

    those are gorgeous!  where did you get your embosser?

     
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    reesey    June 6, 2009   Orange County

    wow! i love it!! yay for gocco invitations!

     
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    meli    2008   San Francisco

    Fabulous job! :)  I totally DIY my invites and can appreciate the amount of work that you put into your invites!  I also used a mixture of letterpress and other print media to cut down the prices. I.LOVE.LETTERPRESS!

     
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    silverstar       OC

    I need to know how you did those corners too. Awesome job!

     
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    yujai       Seattle

    Yup, I just use a crafty punch for the corners, they are low cost tools!

    For letterpressing, I am lucky to be a designer and the printer is willing to do a barter of service with me.  She printed my job and I gave her some illustration to use for future job.  How cool is that?!  The cost of my invitation is around $1.70/set now.

    I got the embosser in Hong Kong, so much cheaper(Sorry to say, but the price here is just a ripe-off)!  Unfortunately this probably won't work if you are living in North America, since the shipping fee is expensive. 

    More details in my blog ;)

    http://yujai.blogspot.com/2008/06/my-fabulous-invitations.html

     

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