Weddingbee boards

We did it! After hours and hours of hard labor our invitations are done!! They are very simple and not nearly as impressive as others invitations I've seen here, but they are exactly what I wanted and sooo inexpensive!!!! I could not have done it without Weddingbee. Here I read about three websites that I will heart forever: paperandmore.com, papermojo.com, paper-source.com. To them and to Weddingbee I dedicate my humble babies:

Before: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30283297@N04/2837637371/in/photostream/

After:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/30283297@N04/2879262644/in/photostream/

Thanks! I bought the cardstock (ivory linen 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 and solid brown 5 x 7) at paperandmore.com along with A7 kraft paper envelopes. I used the Jane Austen font from dafont.com and it was FREE!!!!. I used spray adhesive which is fantastic and very sticky so beware! The decorative paper is from papermojo.com. I had to buy a paper cutter (which I plan to return now that I'm done). I measured the invitations and made a template (about 10" X 7" more or less), then I traced over the decorative paper and cut cut cut. I bought 7 papers (4 yellow and 3 pink) and made about 65 invitations. I put some pictures on Flickr so you can see the ribbon process.The pictures are numbred.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30283297@N04/2883142486/

1. Cover the line between the 2 papers with the ribbon.

2. Turn it around and make an X with the 2 ends.

3. Twist the two ends.

4. Turn around again and pull the ends.

5. Tie a simpe knot and cut the excess ribbon.

The little cards were made using cardstock form paper-source.com, which I cut using my paper cutter. Everything was done using Word. I bought supplies for a 100 invitations an made only 65. The total cost for everything you saw on the after photo was about $160 ($200 adding the ink for the printer)

 Yes, there's a catch. The papers were 22 X 34 (or something similar) the pink one is larger. I measured how much paper was needed to cover the whole invitation and I made a cardstock template (just a rectangle) I made a lot of rectangles over the decorative paper to know were I was going to cut. The map was a PAIN. First I drew the roads with a pencil, then traced over it with a fine brown marker ($0.99 at OfficeMax) The little pictures are clip art that I shrank, printed, cut and glued. I wrote the names using the Jane Austen Font (size 9 or 10) then printed, cut and glued. I made a laser color copy at OfficeMax, I reduced it to 78% which perfectly fitted my left over ivory cards. Here at home, I made color copies of the laser copy using my printer. I had to tape the cards to a 8 x 11 paper (all 65 maps!) because the printer would not accept the size of the cards. I tell you, a pain!!! DIY invitations are a LOT of work, but YOU CAN DO IT! GOOD LUCK and post pictures of your invitations!!!!

You did a great job!  Where did you get the cherry blossom image on the enveope?

The cherry blossom image and the bird were done with rubber stamps.