The fiancee and I are very happy with the results and I can't wait to get everything together and send them on their merry way. For now, this is the finished look (ignore the chopped-off tops of the inserts) but I might be adding some embossing to the backs of the inserts, to the inside of the pocket or to some of the empty blue spaces you see in the above picture. That's all to be determined though and all depends on how fed up with the project I am when I reach the end. In the picture above I did emboss all the inserts as they came out of the printer, but I determined that this takes up too much time and has very little payoff.
For the Pocketfold:
Dimensions: 13-1/8 x 7 right now
16-1/8 x 7 when it's all unfolded
creases at: 3" from top
3" from bottom
8" from bottom
The Announcement:
Font: Exmouth size 36pt for names, 28pt for the "and"
Monotype Corsiva 14pt for the rest of the text
Dimensions: 4.5 x 6.5
Brown background: 4.75 x 6.75
image on left is a brush style from: http://www.brusheezy.com/
the Swirls and Flourishes set by Obsidian Dawn
I will be embossing the blue image on the left by throwing embossing powder on it as soon as the printer has finished printing it out. I found that doing it this way gives me just enough ink for the powder to cling to so that I don't need to use the embossing pen. The only problem is that I'll need to print out the invites one at a time and sit next to the printer with all my embossing supplies in tow. Hopefully I don't spill the container of embossing powder all over everything.
Las Vegas Map
Googled "Las Vegas Maps" and got something like this in red. After many hours I changed everything to blue. I also decided after going to Vegas that many of the places that I originally put on the map are unnecessary and they can all just pick up an actual map with all the little items on it when they check in.
Font: MS Serif size 9pt for the labels, all in caps
Edwardian Script ITC size 30pt for "Las Vegas Map"
Dimensions: 4.5 x 6.25
Brown background: 4.75 x 6.5
the image on the top is also a brush style from http://www.brusheezy.com/
from the same set
Accommodations
Font: Edwardian Script ITC size 30pt for "Accommodations"
Monotype Corsiva 14pt for the rest of the text
Dimensions: 4 x 6.25
Brown border: 4.25 x 6.5
RSVP
Font: Edwardian Script ITC size 30pt for "RSVP"
Monotype Corsiva 14pt for the rest of the text.
Dimensions: 3.375 x 4.875
Brown border: 3.5 x 5
I made them this size so they fit in the A-1/4 Bar size envelopes.
I'll also be individualizing the RSVPs to try and avoid write-ins.
Pocketfold Closer
Letter: Edwardian Script ITC size 440pt with a drop shadow, contour, bevel and emboss
Goudy Old Style, Italic, size 78.12pt for the rest of the text with a white stroke
Dimensions: 1.5 x 2
Brown border: 1.75 x 2.25
I'm anticipating that the hardest part will be cutting everything to size because I tend to nit-pick, over cut and sometimes get them crooked. I'll be toying around with pre-cutting the paper before I feed it through the printer and see how that goes. There's also going to be a little bit of trickery on the software side to get them to print out but I'll be explaining that in another post.
