rehearsal dinner invitations

the past couple of nights have been spent crafting rehearsal dinner invitations.  i invested in a gocco printer with the intention of making all of the paper goods for the wedding, but just couldn’t help it when i saw all of the beautiful invitation suites at rockpaperscissors.  i couldn’t be more thrilled with our wedding invitations, but knew that i needed to do something with the gocco.

we also tried using fabric as a wallpaper on the backs of the invitations.  i had seen some awesome examples of this online, and decided to try it out.

some key learning points –

1.  make sure your template for the gocco screen is small enough and the image is far enough away from the edge so the ink gets everywhere you need it to.

2.  when ironing the fabric to the paper, you need to use a damp towel.  this kinks the paper so press  between books (or something else) until it is completely dry

3.  iron the fabric to the paper before printing the front of the card.  this wasn’t a huge thing but the moisture on the paper blurred some of the lines and print a little bit.

i hope everyone enjoys the project (and chartreuse envelopes) when they open their mailboxes!