DIY-ish invites: 3rd and final chapter

Here they are, all packaged up and ready for send off.



I haven't had a chance to shoot the individual pieces yet, aside from what I already posted from the press check. It's been so overcast in the mornings that the light in my house has been crap, making blog photography an impossibility. I will have to post those when I finally get photos, because the reply postcard is my favorite piece.



At the last minute, it was deemed absolutely necessary that our invites include a little monogram-y thing to tie everything together. Of course I was out of Gocco supplies, and they are not easy to come by on the westside of LA. And driving to Blue Rooster on the other side of town just wasn't an option. But LUCKILY my friend Amanda had some extra bulbs tucked away in her closet and bailed me out at the last minute. She owed me though. It was SHE who confirmed (during a marathon envelope-lining night) my brewing suspicions that it was monogram or bust... she was right, of course.





So I chopped up some of Jenna's calligraphy in photoshop and cobbled together an acceptable intertwining BK. And thanks to an emergency trip to Michael's and the genius of the 2 inch wide hole punch, it was business time. We used a bunch of different ribbon, but I actually ended up liking variations of black & white the best. I couldn't ever find the perfect shade of muted, vintagey emerald green I'd imagined, but I think the black was better anyway.

Soooo glad this project is over.