Invites in Calligraphy

So this weekend I decided I was going to tackle the calligraphy task. I am doing calligraphy for others so I knew if I was still going to do my own it was going to have to be now or never. A while back I completed all of the return addresses so I just had to all of the mailing address to complete. It took me 2 days just a few hours a day and now I have one more thing checked off of my DIY to do list (which seems to grow by the minute). So YAY for checks!!!!!

That's a whole lot of calligraphy!

11/23 Wedding Monograms

I have put together a few more monograms so here they are. . . I had 3 colors to work with and I think the colors came out great!

Photoshare

I just ordered these from vista print for the wedding. . . what a steal. . .really literally a steal they were free and all I had to pay for was shipping :o) I wanted a way to get all the pictures from the guests and I have seen these before so I jumped on the opportunity to have these made up.

So there will be one of these at every seat! Another thing done :o)

11/22 more Wedding Monograms

Here are a few monograms that I have worked on recently :o)

Chinese To-Go Box

Well I was on a roll tonight so I decided to keep on moving and I finished all of the Chinese to-go boxes for the favors. So I had the design down from a while back so all I had to do was print the labels and make them into stickers. So first was the printing which I did on photo paper it gave it a clean and expensive look to it (I highly recommend using it).

Time to cut out the soon to be stickers. . .
and here we have our stickers ready to go. . .

and onto the Chinese box it goes. . .

. . . here it is!

I made about 200 boxes to cover my bases :o)

another project down :o)

Invites Moving Along

Well I am quite the early bird and as soon as I had the opportunity I decided that I wanted to get the main part of my invitations done. I already put together the blue mats with the white envelopment but we just had the invitations I designed using Photoshop printed. So that meant time to start putting everything together. Here I am chugging along. . .

Well anyone who knows me knew I wouldn't do a simple invitation I ended up using 2 mats and crystals :o) It was a lot of work but totally worth it! Here are the fruits of my labor. . .

and there you have it 125 invites! All I have to do now is print up the RSVP's and then put the stickers I have already created to seal them. . . oh yeah and then all that calligraphy as well. . . never a dull moment for a DIY bride :o)

Xyron Stickers

Well I did say I would put up instructions so here they are. . . I made these labels a while ago they are going to seal my invitations.

Once you have your label printed and cut up you will place them on the xyron machine.

Turn , turn , turn

almost through

once its on the other side all you have to do is cut

and there you have it!

it really doesn't get any easier than that! That's a whole lotta stickers. . .

FYI Good Info

I just wanted to let you know that Carla Ten Eyck is available for B-shoots. B-shoots are misunderstood by some people. You don't have to show anything if you don't want to. It is all about you and making you feel good about yourself. . .and for me I want to give the gift to my FI so he knows 10, 20, 30 years from now how lucky he is that he married a hottie. . .LOL jk. She is beyond amazing as if I haven't said it before. She really has a way of making you feel so comfortable that you don't notice things around you and time just melts away. Before we knew it we realized that 3 hours had passed and we still had so many amazing ideas floating around. I have seen my fair share of pictures, being a bride who is all about research. I have never been the cookie cutter type of person. I have never wanted what was average or what was necessarily expected. I didn't want somebody elses pictures with my face plastered on somebody elses pose, if that makes any sense? So match me up with a creative brilliant mind like Carla's and there you have it pure magic!
See fully covered just a beautiful picture

A unique shot of our wedding rings :o)

If you have any questions please feel free to ask me :o)

http://www.carlateneyck.com/

http://www.photosbycarla.blogspot.com/

Stickers

So its been a while since I have done a project so while the boy was away I decided to play. . .with a project that is :o) So I had bought myself a little Xyron machine (which by the way is AWESOME) a little while back with the intention to make myself some stickers. I promise ladies I will post instructions once I decide on which sticker I am going with! But I love the 2 trials that I have just completed. . . so here is what I came up with so far. . .

Band Viewing

Earlier in the week my parents had mentioned to me that the band that will be playing at our wedding were going to be playing down in New York. We didn't have any plans so we decided to take a little trip :o) We are so happy we decided to go because the band was beyond amazing! As if I wasn't excited before . . . I am even more so now! Here are a few pictures from our fun night out.

Me ~N~ Eric

Me ~N~ My Mom

My Mom ~N~ Dad