Make Wedding Invitations With Rubber Stamps

One of the easiest and cheapest ways to make wedding invitations is to use rubber stamps. There is such a wide variety of great rubber stamping products on the makets these days that you can find an image to suit most any and all wedding invitation themes and styles. There is even a huge assortment of different colored inks to choose from, not to mention embossing inks which can produce some very cool and unique effects on your wedding invitations and stationery.

I'll admit that rubber stamps have become another (and most recent) of my durty little habits. I'm starting to hoard them. LOL! When you think of rubber stamping you might be picturing those giant thick wooden blocks with the little rubber image glued to the underside. A little tricky to use indeed. Wipe that image out of your head. Those one's are neat but a busy bride has no time to fool around with those type of stamps.
The kind of rubber stamps I am refering to use to make wedding invitations, are the clear stamps. If you want to be successful at making all of your wedding stationery using rubber stamps these are the ones to use. Trust me.
They may look kind of funny when you see them on the shelf or when they arrive in your mail box. They never come with any directions. When I first saw them I was like "how the heck do you work those little things??" The secret? You need to buy a couple of clear blocks to go with them.

Here's how you use clear stamps:

OK, so those funny looking little flat clear stamps are actually kinda sticky on the back. They are designed to stick right to that clear block. So you re-arrange all of the stamps onto a formation that is perfectly aligned for the design you wish to stamp and viola! The beauty of it is that everything is clear so you can see exactly where your image will end up on your paper. Unlike the old fashioned wooden blocks. This cuts your percentage of mistakes down to practically nill. I LOVE it!!

You can repeat the same image on all of your stationery, from invitation to RSVP's, programs, table cards, etc. And for all fo you gocco obsessed brides, you can make just one of each item and then burn it to a screen and gocco everything! You can even use them to make your Thank You cards!!

Make wedding invitations:

I like to print the wording onto paper first and then simply se the stamps to apply a decorative element. What is really cool though, is that they even have font stamps. So you can actually lay out your entire wedding invitation, wording and all, onto one really big clear block, and then simply stamp away until you've made all of your invites. Need some hints for how to get the text on there lined up the correct way, perfectly centered. EASY! Just print out the text the way you want it and lay it under the clear block to use as a guide. Do the same for placing pictures in the right alignment. Just lay the block on top of the printed invitation and use as a guide as to where to place the stamp on the clear block.

Well good luck and happy stamping! I'd love to see all of your hand stamped DIY invitations. Lend some inspiration by adding your very own page with tips, or a tutorial, or maybe just plain pictures to show off your invitations. Show off how you make wedding invitations at our DIY invitations gallery page.