120 days to go.
Actually sounds like a manageable number now, doesn't it? That's about four months. In fact, it was exactly four months a few days ago :)
Today's plight of plights is invites! Since dreaming up the
little buggers many days ago, I have come down a bit from my DIY cloud and considered that maybe it would be easier to... well, do things a little easier.
I started with gingham.
Let me first say that I loooove me some gingham. Nothing quite says "summery picnic" to me like a swatch of this lovely checked fabric. And as our main colors are green and yellow, I went with the gold gingham motif, snitched some clip art from the internets (very useful), opened my trusty Paint program, and whipped up a vague idea of what I wanted:
That's right, I got mad skillz :p In my perfect invitation world, the gingham/checked layer would be a little heavier, more like a cardstock or scrapbooking weight, and the top layer (writing, bugs, and all) would be a normal paper weight for easy printing. When finished, the invite would fit in a letter-size envelope along with the postcard response card.
Unfortunately, we don't live in a perfect world. The first problem I'm running into is the fact that I have no idea where to find the paper I want. Does it even exist? How expensive would it be? If it doesn't exist, what are my other options (fabric? printing my own somehow? lining with ribbons?)?
The second problem is what to do for the response cards. Making them with the same paper seems like gingham/checked overkill, and so does overusing the bug motif (if we do indeed use them).
Any ideas, wonderful internet friends? What did you do paper-wise for your invites?
(Sources:
one, LJ)
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