My life has never been busier than it is right now...well I was pretty busy when my sister got married last year. Anyway...my sister is due to give birth any day now, my boyfriend turns 25 (oh to be 25 again) on Wednesday, I have appointments coming out of my nose this week and I have to finish the wedding invitations in the next few weeks...3 weeks if I end up going to San Francisco on May 3rd. I have most of the printing done...just need to do the RSVP cards and I have a bag of unassembled wedding invitations sitting by my door ready to take to the hospital so I can work on them when my niece is born. I am a little behind on my posts because I have completed more work than is shown in the following pictures.
Here's a close-up of the finished invitation. I blurred out info to protect the innocent ;o) I love the combo of the burgundy and gold inks!
This was probably the most tedious step of the entire process. I had to print the burgundy F first. In order to do this I had to mask off the scroll frame so the ink didn't bleed through as I needed that part to be completely gold. One I finished that step I had to clean the screen and mask off the F so the gold ink didn't bleed through on that! I think I only had to try about 3 or 4 times before I found the perfect technique. I love the way they turned out and they add a very special touch to the invitations.
I did all the printing (except for the gold scrolls on the invitation) in one day with an Angel game thrown in. My parents have season tickets and my Dad had to work so I went with my Mom. My sister and brother in law have seats right in front of us so it was a lot of fun. Although I did stay up until almost 2am finishing everything. Once you ink a screen there is no going back and you must finish what you started.
*Next post will show the printing of the return addresses on the outer envelopes and the mailing address on the RSVP envelopes.
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