Quiet girl has been working for a while on hand carving a stamp for our wedding invitations, and this weekend we finally sat down and made them all! It was really fun- first we stamped these cards with white ink, then we put embossing powder on them and I heated the cards so the embossing powder would melt and emboss (it's really cool to watch, at one point it reaches a tipping point and goes from a powder to this gold stuff). Then I inked in all the suns, and Quiet girl inked the hills and the sky. The inside has this green paper with the invitation details on it in dark brown ink. I attached all the green papers to the invitations with photo-mounting stickers.
Anyways, point is, the invitations are done- all that is left is putting the invites in the envelopes and sticking on the return address labels I just made (they are already addressed and stamped and have direction sheets in them)- should be able to finish that tonight and send them out tomorrow maybe. Amy also gave me this sealing wax stuff, so I'm going to experiment with that later and see how that works, may or may not use it.
Anyway, here is a picture of an invitation! Each one is slightly different, but this is generally what they look like:
Beautiful. That Quiet Girl has many talents.
ReplyDeleteWhat? Treif animals on the invitation?! ;)
ReplyDeleteWishing you all the goodness in the world and good luck!
Chatzkaleh
It's so nice that you incorporated your entire new family on the invitation.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you doing for a bouquet? I was thinking blue hycinthias or are they called hyacinths? - I know that's spelled wrong, mixed with a few white roses, that should go nicely with your dress, if you want to throw another color into it, I'd go with something bright yellow, like tulips. This shouldn't be too big.
ReplyDeletePlease DO NOT tell me you're not carrying a bouquet.
They look nice but kind of pagan. I thought you were atheists?
ReplyDeletehow do they look pagan?
ReplyDeleteMOB- no, no bouquet. There's no aisle either, or long drawn out ceremony, so when would I even carry one?
ReplyDeleteStanding on a mountain naked, the sun's rays, the animals ... I don't know that is how it struck me. But they are nice so enjoy.
ReplyDeletelol we're not supposed to be naked, it's a silhouette. And those are our pets- we have 3 cats and a dog.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought they were sacrifices.
ReplyDeleteLOL
Wow, that is beautiful and I can't imagine making them, since I'm not particularly artistic. Nice job!
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