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An Old-Fashioned Kind of Love: hand drawn invitations
by Alexandra Hunt
This was the ninth design that I went through, and the illustrations are completely drawn by hand (with India ink and a old-fashioned nib). by Do-it-yourself-invitations.com These invitations have gotten a really great response, and heaps of DIY brides looking for instructions on how to create these wedding invitations. The posts on Our Little Haus about how these invitations were created have since been taken down, so I wanted to give you all a couple of hints on how you could re-create something like this at home. First of all, the graphics on the "Old Fashioned Kind Of Love" invitations were hand drawn! I think for most of us this is an impossible feat. But you can get results much like the invitation shown by simply using a rubber stamp! There are a TON of really cool rubber stamps out there, many with vintage and antique images and themes. My absolute fave to use are CLEAR STAMPS. These are completely different than the old blocky stamps mounted on wood. Wood stamps can be difficult to use efficiently as you cannot see where you are stamping. Clear stamps are thin floppy little pieces of plastic which you mount yourself, onto a clear block. The stamps are able to peel off of the block when you are done, and remount any other stamp. Since they are clear errors are greatly reduced since you can see what you are stamping! One little trick I like to use to reduce mess ups? I always have a piece of scrap paper handy right next to my project. I always apply the ink liberally to the stamp and then do a light test stamp before stamping the image onto my intended project. It comes out perfect about 95% of the time. Still messing up? Keep a good thin marker in a coordinating color to your inks handy. Then just touch them up by hand. You can buy pocket folds from some online stationery stores. LCI Paper Co. has a great selection in several colors, as well as a great selection of card stock and envelopes. To get those neat rounded corners? Simple! Invest in a round corner paper punch and meticulously punch them out by hand. I recommend having all of you paper professionally cut ahead of time and then go back over the corners yourself. You can get paper cut on a hydraulic machine at most any copy or print shop for relatively cheap, and super fast to boot. Hydraulic cutting machines cut large stacks of paper all at once, so your entire stack can be cut in minutes.  6 1/4 Sq Pocket Fold Stardream Antique Gold (25 Pack) From: LCI Paper Co.
Have you recently made your own invitations?Want to share them with us?Have your handmade invitations featured on our Do It Yourself Invitations! Just visit our Reader Submissions Page and tell us about your handy work!
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