As one would expect, it was raining. So I busied myself with tidying our new flat and pulling out all of the paper/DIY crappola that I had packed away before our move. I was really quite excited to start as most of the design had already been done. I thought that I would start with the printing of the addresses onto our invitation envelopes. Unfortunately, my crapstastic printer had other ideas. It did not like my gorgeous White Luxe Paper Source envelopes and enjoyed making loud choking noises anytime I tried to feed through the envelopes.
As not to completely ruin all of my lovely envelopes, I decided to give up using the evil printer. That left me with 2 options: labels or addressing each envelope by hand. My handwriting is neat but not pretty, as is Lee's, so the labels won out.
I decided to do it the Martha way, as it seemed the easiest.
However she recommends running her template through a sticker machine and using a bone folder, crease where indicated. I have neither a Xyron sticker machine nor a bone folder so I went to Staples and bought a 100-pack of A4 labels (1 per sheet). I made my own design, printed off 5 per sheet and cut the suckers out. It's not exactly what I had envisioned, but it gets the job done.
(I didn't want to stick it to the envelope yet as we're not quite ready for that stage. And don't worry as the extra bits of white on the ends peel off with the label so the white area around the lines is the same...)
So I've got most of the labels done except for those people who I know are moving in the next little while and the random family members that our parents cannot seem to provide us with addresses for.
More DIY to come.
Sorry if the post and pics look funny but I cannot actually see the post thanks to work's internet filter.
2 comments:
Your labels look great!
looks awesome! I am going to do the wrap around labels too.
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