Wednesday 18 November 2009

Making Handmade Wedding Invitations

More and more brides, are now wanting to make thier own handmade wedding invitations. And why not, why pay for a designer to make your wedding stationery with the handmade look, when you can easily achive the same results, by making them yourself. Lots of Brides to be want to have a go, and feel they are a good part in producing handmade wedding invitations, so let your creativity flair.

Follows our simple tips and tricks of the trade, and you wont go wrong.

1) First decide on a theme or colour for your 'handmade wedding stationery'
2) Decide how 'handmade' do you actually want them to be?
3) Are you wanting to buy the blank cards, and print on them?
4)) Maybe choose a template to assist in the printing.
5) If you decide to use embellishments, you will need to use the correct adhesives, read our tips on what glue to use.
6) If you are going to print on them, be sure to read our printing tips and techniques.
7) Do lots of research, and check all the resources are available.
8) The last thing you want is to find a retailer, has discontinued selling a particular paper or card. 9) So check that a product is not due to be discontinued.
10) Have fun, enjoy your creative flair, and ask some friends around to help you.

Monday 16 November 2009

Free Place Card Template

When making placecards, the one thing most people struggle with, is deciding whether to print them, or to write them.

Depending on your computer and printing knowledge experiance, it is now quite easy to print on most card sizes. Witha little bit of guidence, we find most people can easily achieve great results when printing on them. Of course, if you have great neat handwriting, or somone in your family has great writing, they can still look fantastic. You can use a nice calligraphy pen, and with a little practise, they can look great.

If you dont fancy writing or printing directly onto the place cards, you can print names on to some nice vellum, or parchment paper, they cut out and stick to the place card.

If you prefer to print onto an A4 sheet size card, then cut your cards to size, then we also have a few FREE placecard templates.

For those wishing to print directly onto the place card, we have produced a word document template for 90x90mm size place cards. To print on this size, you just need to adjust your printer tray settings accordingly. Free Place Card Word Doc* Template: Place Card Template 90x90mm

Sunday 15 November 2009

Free Gatefold & Postcard Invitation Templates

When Making & Printing Gatefold or Postcard Style Wedding Invitations, you can choose various options of what size to make. The most popular used for these flat style invitations is A5, or 150mm Square.

It depends really upon how much information you want to add to your invitations. More, and more brides, are now choosing to add lots of information that they feel suitable, including map directions, hotel info etc.. So you can use these templates, even if these postcard templates, are going to be used for this type of information.

We have created a few various sized free templates that are suitable for making wedding & evening invitations. We have created these templates on a word doc files, making it easy for you to download and add your own text, you amy need to adjust margins accordingly.

Gatefold & Postcard Insert & Overlay Templates:

Square Gatefold Insert Template - 150mm
A5 Gatefold Insert Template
Small Square Gatefold Insert Template - 125mm
A6 Flat Insert Template

Free Wedding Invitation Templates

When Making & Printing Wedding Invitations, you can choose varoius options of what size to make. It depends really upon how muh information you want to add to your invitations. More, and more brides, are now choosing to add lots of information that they feel suitable.

We have created a few various sized templates that are suitable for making wedding & evening invitations. We have created this template on a word doc file, making it easy for you to download and add your own text, you amy need to adjust marins accordingly.

A6 Single Fold Insert Template
Tall DL Insert Template
Square Fold Insert Template - 150mm

Free Order of Service Insert Template

When Making & Printing Order of Service, you can choose various options of what size to make. It depends really upon the length of Service, and the amount of information you want to add to the order of service booklet.

More, and more brides, are now choosing to add lots of information that they feel is suitable to add to thier big day.
We have created template that is suitable for A4 size folded to A5. We have created this template on a word doc file, making it easy for you to download and add your own text, you amy need to adjust marins accordingly.

Feel free to download and use this template, when desighing your own Order of Service.

A5 Order of Service Insert Template

Wedding Invitation Wording Templates

When making your own wedding invitations, one of the areas many brides get a little confused, with the wording. Here are soming wording suggestions. These words are what we would consider to be the most appropriate wording etiquette when making your own stationery, but we suggest you ot down a few ideas, decide with your family which wording best suits your wedding & your circumstances. These templates, can be amended and changed accordibgly. These are only suggestions, it is your wedding, so in the long run, you decide on what matters to you, as we all know, things have changed over the years, and the traditional wedding wording has now become alot more versatile!!


  • Bride and groom
Miss Joan Radcliffe and Mr John Michael Jones
request the pleasure of your company at their marriage
at St Johns Parish Church, Cardiff
on Saturday, 21st April 2007 at 3.00 pm
and afterwards at Medloy Inn, Cardiff
  • Bride's parents
Mr & Mrs John Radcliffe
request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter
Joan Radcliffe to Mr John Michael Jones
at St Johns Parish Church, Cardiff
on Saturday, 21st April 2007 at 3.00 pm and
afterwards at Medloy Inn, Cardiff
  • Bride's parents (divorced)
Mr John Radcliffe and Mrs Jean Radcliffe
request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter
Joan Radcliffe to Mr John Michael Jones
at St Johns Parish Church, Cardiff
on Saturday, 21st April 2007 at 3.00 pm
and afterwards at Medloy Inn, Cardiff
  • Bride's parents (mother remarried)
Mr John Radcliffe and Mrs Jean Johnson
request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their daughter
Joan Radcliffe to Mr John Michael Jones
at St Johns Parish Church, Cardiff
on Saturday, 21st April 2007 at 3.00 pm
and afterwards at Medloy Inn, Cardiff
  • Bride's mother (widowed)
Mrs Jean Radcliffe
requests the pleasure of your company at the marriage of her daughter
Joan Radcliffe to Mr John Michael Jones
at St Johns Parish Church, Cardiff
on Saturday, 21st April 2007 at 3.00 pm
and afterwards at Medloy Inn, Cardiff
  • Groom's parents
Mr and Mrs George Jones
request the pleasure of your company at the marriage of their son
John Michael Jones to Miss Joan Radcliffe
at St Johns Parish Church, Cardiff
on Saturday, 21st April 2007 at 3.00 pm
and afterwards at Medloy Inn, Cardiff.

Friday 13 November 2009

Making Wedding Menu Cards

Ideas For Making Wedding Menu Cards

So you have decided you are making all your wedding stationery, including the menu plan. If you are having a sit down reception, it is a good idea to have menu's, especially to hold important information regarding ingredients.

Some wedding reception venue's, will supply menus free of charge, but if you have full coordinating stationery for the rest of your wedding, why cut corners here. Your tables will look so much better with full coordinating table decor.

Points to consider:

1) If you have decided on a theme for your wedding, you could choose to add this theme to your menu cards, decorating them with flowers, embellishments or ribbons.

2) The menu's should ideally be very similar design to your place cards so that the full set looks coordinated on your wedding tables.

3) Decide how many you will need to make, you can either allow 1 per table, or 2 per table, but maybe consider making 3-4 for the top table. Depending on your budget of course.

4) The most popular size of card used for an order of service, is A5 postcard style flat cards, and A4 folded to A5 single fold cards. Both work equally as good.

5) If you do use the postcard style card blanks, you would need a card holder to place them into.

6) When printing, you need to decide if you want to use coordinating printables, or whether you are going to embark on the layout youself.

7) You can achieve great result, by using our Free Template, to help with you layout.

8) We advise on using a nice substantial weight card, between 250gsm-300gsm. This will be much nicer to work with and will look much more professional.

Thursday 12 November 2009

Tips & Ideas When Making An Order Of Service

Making an Order of Service, is a very easily achieved. It does play a very important part of you day. Most traditional Church Weddings will normally need some structure, to help your guests organise themselves throughout the service. An order of service, contains vital information, including; hymns, prayers, when to stand, and when to sit, etc. So when making yours, you really do need to plan this carefully.

Here are some tips and techniques, when making an Order of Service;

1) You need to gather as much information about the ceremony,
2) Work out the best way to make your booklet. It might be worth, asking your priest or vicar, if they have examples of order of servie for previous weddings held in your church. This will give you a good idea of the how the ceremony will run.
3) Decide how many you will need to make, you can either allow 1 per guest, or 1 per couple. Depending on your budget of course.
4) Type a rough plan of the order of service, and run it by your viar/priest, to check that the order is correct.
5) Decide if you want to add further information, you can add family member names, bridesmaids and pageboys etc..Or you may want to say a special thanks to guests for their attendance.
6) When printing, you need to decide if you want to use coordinating printables, or whether you are going to embark on the layout youself.
7) You can achieve great result, by using our Free Template, to help with you layout.
8) We advise on using a nice substantial weight card, between 250gsm-300gsm. This will be much nicer to work with and will look much more professional.
9) The most popular size of card used for an order of service, is A4 folded to A5.

Making Place Cards with Templates

Making Table Name Place Cards

When planning your big wedding day, ok so you have decided you are making all your wedding stationery, including the table place card names.
If you have decided on a theme for your wedding, you could choose to follow the theme through to the table decor, and place cards.

So once your theme or colour has been chosen, you can decide how you will follow the theme through. This adds a little fun, and a little change in planning your day. Your seating plan can then hold all the guests names, allocated to a particular named table, then place all the place cards on that table, to help your guests find the correct allocated seating place.

When making place cards, it is best to use a nice substantial card to print them on; 250gsm-300gsm. You could use A4 size card, then print and cut them to place card size, this is great if you have all the correct tools to do the job, but if you dont have the tools, it may well be worth thinking about buying a paper trimmer, or borrowing one from a crafter.

Using printable place cards makes the whole process a lot easier. All our printables have a text area box, so you can add personal details and the name of your guests.

Making Save The Date Cards

Save The Date Cards, are becoming more and more popular, we seem to following American trends, and picking up on alot of international ideas when planning a Wedding.

Ok, so you have decided on a date, and the first thing you want to do is let everyone know your good news. Save The Date Cards, are a way of letting everyone share in that special excitement too. A great idea, especially for those who work to a tight schedule, we all need to book time off work, some of your friends and family may even live away from you and need to travel, so they need to plan in advance.

The cards will be a sneak preview it your theme or colour. They can also match the rest of your wedding stationery.

So when choosing your colours and design, it may a nice idea to consider using these when making your save the date cards. The most popular size to use when making these are A6 postcards. You can use our printable save the date cards, this allows you to add the details in the text box area. Making them very easy to use. All our save the date printables are set out on the correct sized card. But if you prefer to make your own from scratch you can print onto an A4 sheet and cut to the correct size.

When making save the date cards, it is best to use a nice substantial card to print them on; 250gsm-300gsm. You could use A4 size card, then print and cut them to A6, this is great if you have all the correct tools to do the job, but if you dont have the correct equipment, it is probably best best to print directly onto A6 size card.

Making Table Name or Number Card Templates

When planning your big wedding day, ok so you have decided you are making all your wedding stationery, including the table names or numbers.

If you have decided on a theme for your wedding, you could choose to name your tables after particular things within the theme.

eg: You have decided on a theme of blue butterflies, therefore you have added little pretty blue butterfly embellishments throughtout your wedding stationery. You could now name your tables after breeds of butterflies eg; Chalkhill Blue, Holly Blue, Adonis Blue.

So once your theme or colour has been chosen, you can decide on names for your wedding tables. This adds a little fun, and a little change in planning your day. Your seating plan can then hold all the guests names, allocated to a particular named table.

When making table name cards, it is best to use a nice substantial card to print them on; 250gsm-300gsm. You could use A4 size card, then print and cut them to A6, this is great if you have all the correct tools to do the job, but if you dont have the correct equipment, it is probably best best to print directly onto A6 size card.

Using printable wedding table card numbers/names, makes the whole process a lot easier. All our printables have a text area box, so you can add personal details and the name of the table.

Monday 9 November 2009

Wedding Backing Papers - Printables

We have now also introduced a range of Wedding Backing Paper Printables. At present most of all our backing paper downloads, will perfectly match our existing range of wedding invitation stationery printable sets.
We also have a selection of Free Printables, that will be perfect for that one of a kind invitation, but most of our downloads will have perfect matching sets across our unique range, these will be great for the creative bride to be wishing to have a full coordinating wedding stationery set.

Each downloadable backing paper, will comprise of A4 coordinating wedding backing paper to print & make your own unique beautiful wedding stationery at home, procuced in a high quality PDF file, making it very easy to download and print.

Full instructions are enclosed in each package, only basic computer knowledge is needed to download these wonderful new designs, excusively available only to us.

This is our Autumn Printable Backing Paper Download

Once printed, you can cut up, add as layers to wedding invitations etc, add your own embellishments, ribbons, etc..this will give your stationery that perfect one off design!..Get great looking professional looking stationery, with just one click..

Just print the package, cut to your desired size for use with our full range.

Each Backing Paper downloadable template Comprises of:
Template: A4: 210mm X 297mm

Full download instructions and details included.
ACTUAL DOWNLOAD WILL NOT CONTAIN COPYRIGHT IMAGE

To download any of the backing papers, you will need adobe reader. If you do not already have this installed on your computer, you can download this FREE here.

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Instructions For Use of Templates & Downloads

Here we have set out details of how to download and unzip our wedding stationery package templates.

REQUIREMENTS:
You will require, Word Doc or an Adobe program that can handle PDF files. Such As Adobe Reader. This is FREE to install. Click Here to download Adobe Reader, if you do not already have this installed on your computer.

UNZIPPING AND INSTALLING:
Once you have downloaded the zip file, locate it on your computer and double click it to open the zip file* All graphics are set up in a specific directory using invite name and/or the name of the product. When you click "Extract" make sure you check the "Use Folder names" before unzipping. The files will then automatically go into a folder of that product's name.* Although it is just a personal preference, it's also good housekeeping for your files on your computer. It will also help you to locate your bought kits/products easily* If you prefer to set up your own folders, just make sure you uncheck the "Use Folder Names" before unzipping

PRINTING/PRINTER REQUIREMENTS:
Once you have downloaded and extracted the zip file, locate it on your computer and double click it to open the file. Go to 'file' then scroll down to print.* Click properties, then change the paper size to the paper size your are using. * Eg: If the RSVP, is on a pdf file size A6(105mmx148mm), scroll to A6 paper size, and select.* If the paper size is not listed, you may need to change your printer settings (read below) to accomodate your chosen document to be printed.* If the paper size is listed. Click ok, now, where the page scaling list appears, drop tab to ''fit to prinable area.* Now click ok, and place your paper in the tray, and print.* The size of each document will be shown on each downloadable file.

HOW TO CHANGE PRINTER SETTINGS FOR CUSTOM SIZES:
When printing, if you check the box use PDF source, this will automatically detect the correct size of paper settings ready to print. But you may wish to change your printer settings manually for a specific size:
On your computer, locate the printer settings, usually you will find this in the control panel.* Right click, on RUN ADMINISTRATOR. Scroll to, properties. * Click 'configeration', a new window will open,* Click custom paper size, a new window will open.* Click on one of the custom numbers, 1,2,3 etc.* Now put the paper sizes required in the areas shown,'short edge' & 'long edge'* Name the new paper size. (Eg: A6 = 105mm x148mm)

QUALITY:
This product has been created as high quality and print ready pdf files. You may need to re-size paper sizes as required. For best results when re-sizing down, use the "Sharpen" filter on a low setting either before or after re-sizing.

ADDING YOUR OWN TEXT:
We now also have an updated editable version within all of our downloads, this version is on a word doc, within the download package. To add your own text, just click inside the text box area, change font colour and styles so they suit your own personal taste.

We have many FREE templates you may want to use for your Wedding Inserts.


Now you are ready to go. Happy Wedding Invitation Crafting ;0)

Sunday 1 November 2009

Using Themed Designer Templates

When using wedding Invitation Templates & Downloads, choosing a theme or colour scheme is probably the most difficult. To help you choose what will suit you, it is best to think of the season, your favorite colours, whether you prefer modern or traditional, what is the best option for the colour choice, think of your favorite things in life. All these elements will help you discover the creative you. When you have decided on the template design you like, you can then decide what is the best way to embellish this further.

By printing a wedding download set, then adding those extra little embellishments, will add to the theme no end.
You could print for example, a modern template set, that maybe has pin-stripes, or circles, and still add a butterfly or flower embellishment to adorn it even more. This will certainly add a twist to your wedding invtations, so you get the designer look, without the cost. They will most certainly be very unique.
As a guide, take alook at our Funky Check Design Template below, now this would most certainly look beautiful if you add a lovely paper flower to the design. Maybe a single stemmed rose, placed in the centre of the check design??..Or 2-3 flat paper flowers all in vertical row?
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