Wedding is certainly the most memorable event in one’s lifetime. Almost

every couple wants their wedding to be a perfect one in every respect. Planning every aspect of the wedding before hand can be really helpful for appropriate arrangements and proper management of money.

The invitations of the wedding are considered to be the most essential of the wedding preparations and could account for a sizable portion of the wedding budget.

The DIY wedding invitations could be a plausible way to counter the extra cost burden on the wedding invitations while letting you customize a unique invitation for your wedding.

Wedding Invitations Vegas Style

Las Vegas wedding invitations are in vogue these days. They are not only beautiful and trendy but also require incredibly low cost and reasonable time for their preparation.

Preparing these cards is extremely simple and fun and it may roughly take 10 to 20 min in completing a single card. You will only require the following easily on hand items for making the exquisite invitations:

Materials Required:

Double-sided Mulberry paper

Ornamental vellum

Ace of Hearts rubber stamp

Glue runner or glue stick

Ribbon (color of your choice)

Getting Started!

Step 1:

The Mulberry paper can easily be obtained from any arts and crafts shop. The selection of color should be according to the wedding theme; however, red is recommended if no particular color theme has been decided.

In case the required paper color is not available from these stores, you can always order online through www.paper.com. Each sheet usually comes in 12″ x 12″ size so divide it into 2 equal halves to make two cards per sheet.

Step 2:

After dividing the paper sheet into equal halves of 6″x6″ deckle the edges of the paper. This can be done by placing a foot ruler almost ¼” in from the edge and wetting these exposed edges with water.

This will make them softer and will be easier to tear off without damaging rest of the paper. If you find it difficult to do, you can simply skip this step and use straight edges; however, deckled edges give a more classy appearance to the invitation.

Step 3:

Next, fold the edges of the paper sheet in towards the center from both sides. One edge must overlap the other in the center by ¼”. Now fold the outer edges downwards. This indentation will help you identify where to score the paper.

Rubber stamps of different playing card decorations are available at stationary stores. The stamp is by Inkadinkadoo. Different playing card stamps can be used on different cards to have a variety of samples.

Step 4:

Draw gridlines at the back of the Mulberry paper of approximately 2 ¼” x3″ dimension and cut along these lines to get rectangular pieces of paper using the technique employed to deckle the edges earlier on. You can now use these rectangular pieces to stamp the image on.

You should use good quality ink while stamping the image on the paper. After stamping, the rectangular piece needs to be pasted on the front of the card. In order to do this you can choose either of the two folded edges on the front. Simply apply the glue on one of the edges and paste the rectangular piece in way that it lies exactly in the center of the card, half of it being on the edge on which it is pasted.

You can use the ornamental vellum to print the text for the invitation as Mulberry paper is not a good choice for that matter. You may choose the dimensions of vellum according to the length of your text. After printing simply apply glue to the top backside of the vellum and attach it centrally inside the card.

Your Wedding Invitation is ready!

In the end, you can simply add a satin ribbon and tie it in bow on the outside of the card.

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