by: Bryan
After we finalized the design of the invitation and Bern, our photographer, gave us a good profile picture to be included in our invitation, we started to print our invitations. We scheduled to print at least 10 invitations per day. Even though there were some technical problems we encountered in our Lexmark Printer; we managed to finish all our 80+ invitations with minor problems.
From my previous post about our invitation, we slightly changed the outline by removing the location map of the church and reception at the back of the invitation. Instead, we just printed it in separate paper which will be included inside the envelope.
The Tools
Using the Photoshop, I designed the layout based on the draft I used. Here is the picture of the plan:
The picture is not good in quality, it just showed the dimensions, how the layout will be designed in photoshop, including the canvas size, the margin settings, the colors to be used and how to print the image.
Here are some of the tools we bought and used in the invitation:
Papers:
- Elite Nature Prints specialty paper available in National Bookstore. Paper specifications are:
- 10 sheets - 180 gsm
- Size: 8.5 x 13 inches
- Color: Blue
- Design: Big Flower
- Best Buy Tracing Paper available at National Bookstore. Specifications are:
- 10 sheets - 70 gsm
- Size: 8.5 x 13
- Paperpoint specialty paper available in bookstores in Singapore. Specifications are:
- 35 sheets - 160 gsm
- Size: A4 - 210 x 297 mm
- Color: Flamingo pink
Different ribbons:
Glue, scissors, cutter, ruler and clips:
I bought an embosser with two swans as design. When I was in Manila, I have it created as dry seal in Makati. I'm not able to bring it to Singapore for baggage problem reason, so we will just apply the embossed design to the invitation when we return to Manila by September. Here is the embosser plate:
The embosser is somewhat similar to this one but not that elegant... =):
I taught Karen how to set the printer in printing out the invitations. I also taught her how to punch the border using the puncher I bought here in SG. She did the punching of border every afternoon after she cooked our dinner while I was on my way home. I was the one who folded the invitations based on the designs, cut tracing papers for covers, fix the large ribbon wrapping the invitations. While Karen was the one who attached the inside ply, the tracing papers and the ribbon inside. I also taught her how to punch hole for the inside ribbon.
And the final product:
The location map for the church and reception will be printed to ordinary A4 size bond paper and will be included inside the envelope.
