A Week of Creativity

The last few days were full of the colour purple! It had nothing to do with movies or bad days, but everything with hours in front of the computer, trying to come up with a few creative ideas for a small card (and envelopes) that would serve as a reminder of my daughter's wedding date in October.

I was looking for ideas for wedding invitation cards one night and found a lovely idea for small "save this date" cards on a wedding site. These cards are send out about 4 - 6 months before the wedding, complete with a small magnetic tape at the back, so family and friends can stick it to the fridge and I am sure it will not be easy to forget the wedding date if they are reminded of it every time they open the fridge. Read more...

Adri's wedding theme will be fairies and the primary colours will be lilac and silver. I eventually managed to get the colour of the cards the exact shade that she wants on the computer but somehow my printer decided that it was not impressed with these colours and refused to print the original colours.

I also spend quite some time re-designing the small envelope. I had the template for many, many years, but did not like the original butterfly wings. After more searching on the internet, I found some colouring book templates for wings, but had to play around with the colours again and afterwards spend quite a few hours with the outer envelope's design too.

I tried a few "wing" side-flaps, but in the end used another envelope template I had on the computer. The lovely textured card that I was going to use for these envelopes did not really need any other designs. On Saturday afternoon everything "came together" eventually and the actual printing started in earnest.

Printing all these cards and envelopes was the easy part! It really took hours to cut out the small envelopes. The bigger envelopes were cut out with craft scissors and as many of you probably know, it can sometimes be quite tricky to use them.

However, I am quite satisfied with the end products and they will all be mailed tomorrow. Tonight and maybe in the next few days I will have to come up with yet another idea for the actual wedding invitations, luckily there are still a few weeks before they have to go out. Oh yes, I should really take some time in between to try and finish the lavender wands/wedding favours.