Wednesday 1 September 2010

the paper

ok, so here's another real wedding post. i have been working my little fingers to the bone making our australian wedding invitations and i want to share!

first up though, i'll show you our STD that we emailed out earlier in the year...


the original idea for this was the bike, which i know is all over blog-land, however, the boy and i are actual bike enthusiasts. i cycle to and from work everyday, we cycle everywhere together on the weekends and between us we own 5 bikes... one of which is a tandem. dorksville i know.

anyway, the rest came from collaborating with a friend at work and finessing the design together.

then came the actual mail out invitation. we wanted something fun and unique - something that would set the tone for the day. so i was snooping over at evie's blog and i saw this, it was just so adorable, i knew i wanted to work with the general idea to create our invite. cue my email her to begging to be able to use the design. as she is lovely and generous she said yes and we had our starting point.

we made some changes to the way the card opens, background design and layout etc. so, without further ado, here they are...




please excuse the dodgy photos, after 6 hours of cutting out the pop up section with a craft knife my care factor on the photos was pretty low.

10 comments:

  1. get outta town! those are mad cute! you must have the patience of a saint working with that craft knife.

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  2. Just found you through Angie's blog! These invites are amazing!

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  3. Popping over here from Angie's too--my god, your guests had best appreciate this adorable and more importantly, the work that went into said adorableness.

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  4. These invites are uber cute. In fact I think they may be the best invitations I've ever seen.

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  5. oh man, you guys are so sweet! really, you have made my day :) and made all the hours of cutting and sticking and folding worthwhile x

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  6. Oh myyyy found you through Angie as well, and LOVING your invites! I second KWu, I hope your guests appreciate everything you put into them!

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  7. I absolutely love these invites. You really inspired me. We were struggling to come up with something thatlt like us, but this really helped. Thank you for sharing.

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  8. thanks again everyone - you really made my week with all the kind words!

    @ sarah - i will totally do a how to for you if you still want. they are pretty simple to make, just a bit time consuming. but if the cut out was a simpler shape they would be really quick.

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  9. Um wow. Oh the jealousy. They are amazing!

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  10. @Lou -- I would love a how-to. I pulled up a few ideas from the interwebs, but I would love to see how it all came together for you.

    We're still in the deciding stages for our shape, but it will probably be something in some sort of skyline/cityscape to go with our city destination plans. We have the exacto knife and the self-healing cutting board.

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