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Having a Vegas wedding? Make your own Las Vegas wedding invitations and lend your wedding some style. Really this is just an elegant and beautiful invitation with a little bit of Vegas added in. Here's how I made it.
Materials used to make the Las Vegas wedding invitations:
double sided mulberry paper
decorative vellum
Ace of Hearts rubber stamp
ribbon
glue runner
The Mulberry paper I used for this project was purchased from an arts and crafts store as scrapbooking paper. These kinds of papers are often sold at arts and crafts supplies like Michael's Crafts and A.C. Moore. You can buy them by the sheet.
You can also get these papers online through Paper.com but they will be in different sizes than those I used for this particular project.
The particular paper I bought came sized at 12" by 12" so I utilized the size to make these invitations two to a page. What I did was start by cutting the paper in half. so that in the end I essentially had an invitation that was just around 6" by 6" or so.
After I cut the paper in half, I turned the outer edges of the paper into deckled edges. I did this by holding a ruler down on the edge (about 1/4" in from the edge) and wet the place in which i would tear with a Q-tip. After slightly wetting the paper I then teared the edge off carefully, leaving a deckled rough edge behind. It makes the paper appear more like a handmade paper.
Keep in mind that if it seems like a bit much, you can forfeit this step and still have a very pretty invitation. Or you could just buy handmade paper that already deckled edges.
Next I folded the edges of the Las Vegas wedding invitations in towards the center. This part is actually pretty easy. Just bring each edge in toward the middle until they meet each other. Now let them overlap each other by about a 1/4". Now either fold the outer edges down, or, if you would rather score the paper before folding just make a small fold near the top to show where the fold will go. Use this notch as a guide line for where to score the paper.
I made the playing card decoration on the front of the invitations using the same mulberry paper and a rubber stamp. The rubber stamp is by Inkadinkadoo. They have a number of playing card stamps and other decorative stamps.
To make the paper rectangles to stamp the image on I drew a grid onto the back of the mulberry paper using a ruler and pencil. I made the rectangles sized at 2 1/4" by 3". Using the ruler and pencil guidelines I tore each and every rectangle out of the paper. If you do not want to go for the deckled edge look, just cut it with a paper cutter
When stamping the image onto the card make sure and use a really good stamping ink. Cheap ink will not come out looking good, trust me. After stamping the image onto the rectangle attach it to the front of the card. You want to attach it by only one edge so that you can still open the card at the folds. I applied a strip of glue down the left edge and attached it there only.
* Need help with this step? Check out the custom printable invitations text page and order a printable 4-up text file.
The last step to make these Las Vegas wedding invitations is to simply add the ribbon to the outside of the card. I cut a nice long length of medium width satin ribbon and simply tied it into a bow around the invitation. I snipped off the edges at the end to make them even.
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