Mrs. C Does Stuff

This tutorial is the final part in the Pocket Invitations Series.  Part I on creating the pockets can be found here .  Part II on printing and cutting the materials can be found here . The first step in this phase is to adhere the invite panel to the pocket backing.  Paste the panel on the backing, meaning the pocket should be on the opposite side from the invite.  I used rubber cement to do this because it is easy to clean up if some glue gets outside of the pasted area.  If that happens, all you have to do is simply rub it off. The invisible ink pen is pictured below was used to number the invitations. It has been so long since I bought it, I actually do not remember exactly where i purchased it. However, if you do a search online for "invisible pen with UV light", several online vendors will appear selling them. Also, I am pretty sure you might be able to find them at a store like Michael's or Hobby Lobby, maybe even Target or Wa...

As mentioned in yesterday's post, these invitations are best handled in stages.  This tutorial includes links to templates for all the printables used for these invitations.  I have made up generic names, locations and cities for the templates provided in this tutorial.  Obviously, when you add your own personal information to these templates, the dimensions may change slightly, dependent upon the length of information added.  If this happens, I suggest printing them on plain copy paper first and testing the cuts before using the specialty paper. The specialty paper I used for the inserts and the invite panel was an ivory linen textured paper.  You can find several vendors that sells this.  As you did with envelopes, I suggest getting samples first from the paper vendor to make sure it is the color and texture you desire.  When I refer to invite panel, I am talking about the part of the invite which includes all the information such as...

This week, I am featuring another wedding idea, DIY invitations.  This was one of my personal favorite projects for the wedding.  Although, I can honestly say there was not anything I did not enjoy doing for the wedding.  At first, we wanted to order pocketfold invitations, then we considered making them ourselves.  One day while looking through a wedding invitation catalog, I saw one invitation that had just a pocket on the back and liked it better.  Instead of ordering them, we decided to make them ourselves and started early on the project.  This became a family and friends project and I loved the idea that each invitation was handmade.  We had several nights and weekends around the pub style dining room table making pockets, gluing things together, cutting paper and stuffing.  Then we still had the normal work of addressing the invites and stuffing all the invitations.  Although it was a true labor of love fo...