happy stampin’
As I am prone to inventing the “time intensive” paper projects (the swing cards for sweet, punching eyelets in a parked car in southie at 7AM; bachelorette collateral, etc.), our wedding invitations were clearly an opportunity to get wildly overzealous in production. Besides, if aiming for about 50 people max, it only meant the labour of 30 or so, right? My better half tempered some of the idea craze by suggesting custom rubber stamps vs. gocco, and here’s what we came up with!
first, the stamps!
then, the library card theme!
I love how library books often come with mismatched strips of paper in the sleeves (well, when they used to come with sleeves), so a we included a few of our own with details. With some, we also included a postcard of the inn we’re directing folks to for the weekend.
This is the prototype of the original idea: a folding extravaganza and likely a printing nightmare. Steven was going to draw the A S letters for the front that would perfectly match up into the folded heart, rather an imposing task!
Finally, we needed a mini-site, and on impulse I bought both annlovessteven and stevenlovesann, since clearly we could use two urls…
*note: stamping adventures were greatly facilitated by rubberstamps.net (who turned around the order in less than a week). I was really impressed by the fidelity of the image (I think, at minimum, we were using trade gothic at about 10 pt?). I also got a quote from a place that signs all of its communications “Happy Stampin’” (recommended by Kelly), but I can’t remember the name right now!