Embossed invites, wrap around labels & maps, oh my!

Sorry I haven't posted lately. I've been super busy getting stuff done. The invites are in the mail!!! Yay!

I love the stamps, super cute!

Invitations in progress

I was able to get all the stamping & embossing done this weekend. Here's some pics... completed invite to come soon!

Dad got these for me from some guys cutting down trees at a local car dealership. $1 a piece and I have 50 of them!!


They're cedar & they smell so good! We need to wash them and let them dry out and then they will be used for our centerpieces. I've posted my inspiration picture below for the finished look.
I will be wrapping red & natural raffia around the mason jars, and using the mason jars to hold our red gerbera daisies & tea lights candles.

I'm so excited!!! I have so much more to do.... *sigh* :) I hope to post tomorrow with all the goodies I bought at Michael's this weekend.

Invitation pt. 1

So I ordered some sample cardstock from www.paperandmore.com and did a mock up of our invitation. I might get a different stamp because it's kind of hard to see the embossing. Maybe I just need a different kind of embossing powder.


I can get 200 5x7 precut cardstock pieces of the shiny red cardstock, 200 precut cardstock pieces of the 4 1/2x6 1/2 ivory cardstock and 150 shiny red envelopes from www.paperandmore.com for $95.00. Which I think it an awesome deal!

This was one thing I really wanted to do myself since I do graphic design work all day I was pretty sure I knew what I wanted our invites to look like. I'm really happy with the way they turned out and Mr. H is too.

Inspiration for Invites

I love the look of the invitations below and think I can do something similar within my budget. I'm planning to buy pre-cut cardstock and envelopes from Envelopper inc. The matte for the invitation will be red and the invitation and envelope will be ivory. I'm thinking about buying this stamp and I will probably get the embossing powder and heat gun from Joann's.

There is a excellent tutorial on how to emboss here.
(Source: Miss Fondue, Weddingbee) Thanks for the great inspiration!