our labels

Now that most people have received their thank yous I can show you the lovely labels I made.
and colorful envelopes!


(ps) I should be receiving our photo disc tomorrow, so more wedding pictures to come soon! So excited!

snail mail

They're on their way! Be on the lookout for some cuteness!


and we're done! We've crossed the finish line.

finished! finally

Our programs are complete. Hoorah!

programs again

The other night I punched and scored all night long...

Ohmygoodness!

So I just looked at my blog countdown...and it's in the teens! and that just makes it seem that much closer!! In the 20's I still felt like I had time, but now that it's in the teens I feel like all my time is just wasting away. Stop. Yes. and JUST BREATHE...

I've been working on my program and we've come up with a final cover.
We thought it kind of fit in a little better than the former ones. What do ya'll think?

guest book

I really wanted to do a Polaroid guest book, but after looking at the costs of film and camera, I thought otherwise.

So instead, I made 4" x 6" flat cards for our guests to write us love notes. Then I can slip them into this kolo photo album for trips down memory lane.

program help again

So what do you think about this one??
Any better? Punch out heart...yay or nay? I couldn't decide if I should just keep it simple with the heart banner at the bottom.

help.

So what do you think? T thinks the doily lace is too much and he thinks we should just use the heart punch. I kind of like the doily lace...but I'm still unsure.

So opinions please?

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check out my invites!

The lovely Nole of (oh so) beautiful paper has graciously featured my invitations on her blog. Yay! Head over to her blog to check them out!
Thanks Nole!

gocco: the final product

Here they are...

{lining the envelopes} I found some really cute wrapping paper for $2.99 from Target. I was able to line all envelopes and I still have tons of wrapping paper left. This is a much less expensive way to line envelopes and I really love the red dots.

{packaging the invites}



{stuffing the envelopes}

{ready for the mail}

gocco: production part iv

The last thing I gocco'd was our directions card. We decided to take the easy way out and print the map using our printer. I then gocco'd the directions on the back along with hotel, website, and registry information.

program idea

I'm really enjoying the look of these programs. I might do something similar for ours as my next project.

[[found via wemetinabar]]

gocco: production part iii

Instead of fighting the gocco, I decided to work with the gocco. Since it would never burn my whole invitation fully (the words were to0 close to the edge), I decided to break my invitation into 3 different parts, which then turned into a 4-step printing process.





There are of couse things I would have done differently now that I have gocco'd the invites, but I'm still satisfied with the results. The main thing I learned was not to do a circle within a circle. It's nearly impossible to center it again unless you ink them at the same time (which if I had wanted to do that then I would have needed to make our logo a little bit smaller so that I could place blocking around the logo without covering the dots). And like the RSVP, I embossed the little blue dots.

gocco: production part ii

Next item up for the gocco was our RSVP cards. It was a two step printing process, but it worked beautifully. My original inspiration came from a lovely morning...I just loved the use of the tiny hearts. Kristina had an amazing wedding, so check her blog out!

I embossed the dots, hearts, and our logo. These cards turned out surprisingly well.

Many many thanks go out to all the great suggestions, advice, and help I received when I was having gocco difficulties. I owe these beauties to ya'll. THANK YOU!

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Ladies and Gents...the invitations have made it to the post office. Watch your boxes for a sweet treat!

happy weekend!

I hope you guys have a wonderful weekend!

This weekend I hope to finish my invitations and get them in the mail. Wish me luck!

I found the inspiration for packing my invites from the talented Courtney of Flush Designs. Check out her blog too! AH-mazing!
I love the combination of twine and embroidery string.

meet my new friends

Embossing can add a lot to a card. It just makes it look fancier. I picked up the clear embossing powder from Paper-Source.


About half way though embossing my thank yous, my heat gun I purchased stopped working. I must have over worked the little thing. So we bought this fancy one from Lowes. It's much better!

gocco: production part i

FINALLY, after 3 trips to Kinkos, printing our design too many times to count, and wasting too many screens and bulbs, I was able to start gocco-ing on Sunday. Hallelujah!

I wanted to start with something that I knew would work, so that I would be able to sort out all the kinks and mishaps prior to printing our invitations. I decided to go with thank you design 2, so that's where I started my gocco adventures. Everything went surprisingly smoothly, given the trouble I had initially printing the designs. To add a little more 'umph' to the card, I decided to emboss the design. It's my new favorite thing.

Things I've learned along the way on my first real gocco experience:
1. Print from a laser printer. The photocopies I had wouldn't burn fully on the screen. I did find out that if you have to use a photocopier, then copy your image on the lightest setting.
2. Make sure your image isn't too close to the edge of the screen. For some reason, the image won't burn well close to the edge. I had difficulties with my invitations and the words were about 1/4" to 3/8" away from the edge. I even tried exposing twice, but this didn't help, it just wasted two bulbs.

thank yous

Which card do you like the best?

[[designed by: yours truly]]

invitations design

After many designs and changes, we've finally decided on our invitation design. The accommodations card is still a work in progress, but here are the preliminary designs done in Illustrator CS.

I hope to print these using my gocco. Hopefully it will be a successful project...

[[designed by: yours truly]]

What do you guys think??