You're Invited! Part 2

I updated the invites on the snowy-blizzard Saturday:

This is the main page I came up with (with the details hidden for privacy):

 

Here is the envelope:

 

Here is the post card (the top part is one side, the bottom the other)

 And then I did a series of layering ideas that I am considering featuring the purple accent color. Note the a the "W" you see may or may not be a die cut that I talked about in the last post:

 

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

Depending on what materials I find, it will determine which design approach I will take.

You're Invited!

So even after a trip to Michael's, I wasn't really inspired by their scrapbook section. It seems that my teal/peacock/oasis color is hard to come by––I don't know if it's because it's such an unusual color for weddings, or because no one has decided to put out summer colors yet. I have searched high and low online as well.

Sometimes I think I am too particular for my own good. Ideally I would like a semi-shimmery teal colored card stock that I can cut into half a sheet of paper or smaller. I have already decided if this paper is truly impossible to find, my best approach is to make the invites with a teal background on the computer then print them out at Kinkos and cut them down so it looks like a bleed.

I am also fine with purchasing a DIY invites package, but only if I could find something I actually like! Ugg. I hate generic looking things that have no personality. So this is what I came up with last night (info was omitted for privacy):

 

I probably won't use this exact wording, I just wanted to see what the text looked like. My favorite part about them is the touch of purple around the edge of it. I used the colors from my original palette which include purple, sea foam, and teal. I think that I will forgo the theme, since I still can't quite decide what I want unless I incorporate the theme into the text like: "Join us near the tranquil waters of the Wissahickon river." I am thinking about a "water" theme as a play off of FH's name, but I'm still not sure. The invites are probably what I am less enthusiastic about because I really don't know for sure how they will come together.

Here is my original design again:

 

I think I want to have purple play less of a role in the color scheme and instead be more of an accent color, but if I can't find teal, then I will just have to settle with purple. I am thinking of sticking with a pearl like rose or cream color for the envelopes because those can hopefully be much easier to track down! I also want to minimize the amount of paper I use––the max four pieces, but again, it depends on what I can find. What stinks is that unless I find the paper I need, I can't really experiment that much.

More recently I am thinking of included some sort of "W" die cut in the paper that wraps around the invite, but I'm not certain yet. If I can find one, it would be one of the hand held ones I saw at Michael's like this one:

I also saw some cool rhinestone stickers that I could accent the invite with as well:

 I think that if I am not able to find the card stock, I want to give texture to my invites by using peacock feathers (or some type of teal and purple feathers), mini fabric flowers, crinkled fabric, and/or foil/shimmery paper.

I know it's too soon to freak out about the invites, but I want to have a definite idea before March rolls around when I plan to put it altogether.

 

Wedding Color Scheme - Purple and Teal

So since me and the Future Hubby (FH) decide to move our date up to May/June, I have been feeling queasy about the color scheme that I chose. Originally were going to marry in the fall because we both love the fall colors, fell in love in the fall, and it reflects the colors of my ring. The last few days I have had to mourn the idea of having our first reception in the fall (hopefully we can do our larger reception a couple of years from now in October/November) and thus mourning the death of my original color scheme shown below:

RIP fall colors. This goes to show that you should never get so caught up in a decision during wedding planning that you can't change it when something major changes (like the date and season!)

So I was up last night into the wee hours of the morning compiling a totally different color scheme. I also had ideas about the wedding invitations so I came used the color scheme to come up with an idea for those as well. See my musings below:

For the invites I tried them with three different colored envelopes and I also tried two types of the envelope backs. As you see, the actual invite will be layered according to the upper left hand corner of the picture. The circular thing on the top of the invite is supposed to be a rhinestone ribbon slider/buckle. Last night I was up late trying to price these––they will that least cost $20 which already blows my entire budget if I try to stick around only $20, and almost half my budget if I try to stick under $50. So I am deciding that maybe I should just go for colored card stock and get the textured look for adding mini purple and teal flower sliders with rhinestones that I will create by hand (after all I only have to create 25 invitations at the most).  Here is one example of a fabric flower i found on etsy:

I would like a rhinestone to it like in this pic:

 

And I would like the flower layered and sized like this in this pic:

I also perused the net last night trying to find teal satin or ribbed/textured paper. I didn't even find anything close. I am now thinking about perhaps going to Home Depot or Lowe's to seek out textured wall papers if those exist. I will of course check paper specialty stores and the scrapbooking sections of the crafts stores as well. I am going to check out Michael's today to see what I can find :-)