The Invitation

So I finally got down to making the main part of the wedding invitation. The concept changed a bit over the few months but it came down to this main design. It took me two tries to get the silk screen for this right (it's the only way that i could do the white on red image) and even then it's far from perfect but i decided to count my losses and pull the prints for the invitations anyway. 

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This was the concept design

A close up of the finished product. I actually have purchased a corner rounding cut out since then but i'm not sure if i will end up using it on the main thing as i didn't successfully manage to get them all centred but I will probably end up using it on the RSVP postcard that i still need to finish designing or the wedding info sheet or both. 

I did around 100 cards. There are definitely about 10 that I did before i had hinges to use with the screen (that made it a million times nicer and easier to do) that are really poor but once we finalize the guest list if we still need those 10 invites i will just touch them out by hand. 

The cards used are by cardblanks. About $32 for 10 not including envelopes. As red is my favourite colour I was pretty picky about these lol. The white ink is actually a silkscreening fabric ink from speedball. I did these using the photo emulsion method. 

Found a deal on envelopes at michaels. 50 white envelopes and cards for $5! Amazing! I decided to cheap out on the envelopes because they're just going to get ripped open anyway. André decides to use the cards for the RSVP postcards or the Thankyou notes so we'll see! In the end I'm just glad I finally did it. I hope that people like them!