Well, I had a problem with my wedding invitations, and it wasn’t that I misspelled my fiancé‘s name (like this time). In my last blog posts about designing and making the invites (here and here), I wrote about the process of embossing – melting glitter and ink onto the card stock. After much trial and error, I wasn’t pleased with the way such dark glitter was reacting with such light paper- i.e. any sparkles that didn’t attach to the ink melted onto random spots on the paper, which was so not cute. Here’s what many of them were looking like:
After a little freak-out, I decided to skip the “glitter” look all together in favor of something I hadn’t tried before: clear powder. Using the same embossing technique, the clear powder enhances and raises the color of the actual ink that is used (as opposed to adding a whole new color with the glitter). It almost looks like a wax seal that might be on the outside of an envelope, and it still has that great vibrant color.
Crisis # 1 averted! But I was also having another issue, which was that I wasn’t 100% happy with the font selection, specifically the script. It seemed a little too expected and easy, so I was thrilled to stumble upon dafont.com where there’s no limit to free down-loadable script. I found “Chopin” script, and knew I could stop my search all together! It has an unexpected elegance, and I think it’s pretty easy to read, which is often an issue with heavy script.
Here’s the new look (some info removed), which I’m in love with:
As always, for any info or questions, contact me here!
Hey Nik! The invited are coming out so pretty! You have done a great job! did you get the ribbons on the side idea from our invites? It’s such a nice detail
Can’t wait to see them all complete!
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