Our DIY Boarding Pass Invites

[futuremrstgun]

yep...can you believe it..the official countdown is ON!!!!  30 days tomorrow!!!

 

and still soooooo much left to do.

 

oh my!!!

 

R~

Originally Posted by J and G 2012 

Haha!

It's that easy! My brain has went to mush with all the wedding plans, and lists!

 

One Month for you tomorrow!!

 

 

 

[hatfiehm]

Hi,

If you need 55 invites you need to use 110 pages.  Your invites take up 2 full sheets of cardstock, with 6 pages so you need that x 55. (+1 more for you)

 

Originally Posted by J and G 2012 

Thanks Ladies,

That's why you need more than one set of eyes!

On my "Good" copy I have it set out so that 1 sheet of paper is the same boarding pass thus 5 sheets will make me 3 Invites.

 

Now I'm not a math girl...and I am having the hardest time trying to figure out how many sheets I need to make 55 Invites.... Anyone?

 

[hatfiehm]

These are awesome!  Did you use the aylee bits template?

I am more and more inclined to do these myself, however did you find that it would be most cost effective to take them to staples to print and cut, or buy a color printer and do it yourself?  I am pretty sure colored printing is $1 per page at staples here in canada, plus paper....hmmmm

Thoughts?

 

Originally Posted by J and G 2012 

I thought I would post a pic for our NOOBy friends

Your input would be helpful too!

 

[J and G 2012]

I have a few local printers that will be less than the $1 Staples charges.

I still may print them at home, we are waiting for our sample paper to arrive. It is a metallic White Cardstock (and red ones for the Pocket part) which I may not be able to use in our printer, but it's worth a try.

I'll post our final outcome when the time comes. 

[anudrm]

Your invites are awesome.  I just put mine in the mail, only to confirmed guests also.  (keep in mind that you need extra postage, I used 64 cent stamps, the post office has some nice wedding cake ones & you can always keep some personalized with zazzle.com)

 

I printed one out for a dummy, to ensure that my cutting was good and all that good stuff!  Good luck and I await to see the final project

[anudrm]

I used my printer at home to print ours out.  We have an HP, I used ivory & grey heavy cardstock with no problems!

Originally Posted by J and G 2012 

I have a few local printers that will be less than the $1 Staples charges.

I still may print them at home, we are waiting for our sample paper to arrive. It is a metallic White Cardstock (and red ones for the Pocket part) which I may not be able to use in our printer, but it's worth a try.

I'll post our final outcome when the time comes. 

 

[kymish]

this may be a dumb question but is their a way to print light lettering for invitations onto dark cardstock ??
 

Originally Posted by anudrm 

I used my printer at home to print ours out.  We have an HP, I used ivory & grey heavy cardstock with no problems!

 

 

[anudrm]

It all depends. I printed beige letters on gray & ivory cardstock, so it can work.  I used adobe photoshop to create my boarding passes, any light color that I planned to print I added a simple shadow to it to create some kind of outline. Which entail printed the beige letters on different colors.
 

Originally Posted by kymish 

this may be a dumb question but is their a way to print light lettering for invitations onto dark cardstock ??
 

 

 

[kymish]

thanks for the tip ! ill try it out this weekend
 

Originally Posted by anudrm 

It all depends. I printed beige letters on gray & ivory cardstock, so it can work.  I used adobe photoshop to create my boarding passes, any light color that I planned to print I added a simple shadow to it to create some kind of outline. Which entail printed the beige letters on different colors.
 

 

 

[KalikLove]

Ove the colors!