Lots of people are planning weddings this time of year and might be considering creating their own invitations. The advantage in making your own invitations is that you can truly personalize them and create a keepsake for your family. As a papercrafter, many of the skills you've developed in cardmaking and scrapbooking - layouts, combining colors and selecting images - are easily applied to invitation making.
In the invitation above, we printed out the text onto white cardstock and then embellished with a simple border stamp image, our Flower Border (D1322). It has a flower image on the side of stamp, so that you can stamp the image in green and then go back and stamp the flowers in yellow, or pink or whatever color you choose!
You can see that it's pretty easy to position the flower image at the ends of "stems" along the vine. We stamped the vine image in Brilliance Pearlescent Thyme and the flower in Versacolor Lime. We added a layer of Pistachio Shimmer cardstock and then mounted everything onto a piece of Grass Shimmer cardstock - sized to fit in a matching Grass A7 envelope.
Making the text print in brown and green to coordinate with the paper colors is easy - and you'll truly impress your friends and family with a professional invitation (that you made yourself!).
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