So, first here is my inspiration, courtesy of my daily wedding crack, weddingbee.com:
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If you're too lazy to follow this link (I know there are some of you out there), I'll explain. It's been one of those weddings things since probably the mid-eighties. A little disposal camera at every seat for you to take your personal pictures and then leave for the Bride and Groom. After the wedding, someone collects the cameras that guests actually left on the tables (because you know people took them all the time) and then someone else gets to go and develop hundreds of dollars worth of pictures of what? People eating, blurred flashes... It is a miracle to receive good pictures... anything worth all of that.
This is the modern version. We all know that some of the best pictures you can get may not be taken by the photographer who, let's face it, can only be in two places at once. We also know that most people these days bring a digital camera with them when they go to McDonald's (check out Facebook anytime) so there's a pretty good chance that they'll bring their faithful digi's to your wedding.
This is your chance to solicit pictures from everyone at your wedding without paying a dime. People can simply upload their pictures (the good, the bad, and the ugly) and then anyone can order the ones they like or simply look at them any old time. Why hasn't somebody marketed this yet?
I'm sure they have, but I went the cheap and artsy route.
At work (while diligently not working), I set up a photo share site with Shutterfly, my personal photo printing website of choice. I also set up an email using wedding related name and password (because all photoshare sites make you create an account in order to upload pictures... I thought this would deter people.) Once all that was set up, I made a card and printed it on business card sheet using my newly chosen wedding front from Dafont.com.
Then I popped those babies out while watching America: The Story of Us Sunday night. Which is increda-interesting but since this night I have missed an episode and I am sad.
Here is my wording and my glorious font. For most people, I think this will be pretty easy. For old people, I think they'll just email me their pictures. I put step by step uploading instructions on the front page of the website. Let's hope people can figure it out...
I wanted to dress them up a little bit. So I returned to my faithful snowflake stamps. I lined them up like this so I could get a cool little design. (Side note: by this picture in my editing process, I had remembered how to make squares in Paint so I could block out text without scribbling over it. Much less time consuming...)
In process... I found that this glass worked really well for using the clear stamps. It's too small for any sensible amount of liquor... um liquid, anyways...
Upload of the stamp. I love the way these stamps look with the aubergine ink. It's awwesome I heart my colors.
And this is the way the stamps look on the individual cards. I think it's subtle and kind of fun because the snowflake is just peaking. And no two will look alike because I am not consistent with my stamping. Yay!But I wasn't satisfied. It kind of seemed... plain. The back is aaaall white. So I decided to spruce that up a little as well.
If I'd known I was going to do this, I could have stamped them all before I popped them out. Instead, I'm laying them out two by two and stamping them. I think it looks better anyways. I love this flurry stamp, it's just so whimsical and fun. See, a formal wedding can have FUN in it as well. At least, mine can...
I love, love love the way this looks. It kinda makes you feel like it might be snowing eggplant snowflakes in some magical wedding forest...
A bunch of them all laid out. I don't know if guests will think these are friggin cool as I do. But I'm pretty impressed myself.
Can you tell I love these things... aaah flurries. It's the simple things that make a bride happy.
Bo is helping as always. What I would do without his endless support I just don't know.
These are the supplies I used. The flurry stamp is stuck to the side of a fish holder thing that Mr. Future Hubs doesn't use so I commandeered it. He wasn't happy to see it covered with purple ink but I assured him I can get it off when I'm done. As of writing this post, I am not done.I've got a few more of these left. (A few being a ton) And I want to round the corners but my corner rounder failed me so I need to go to Michaels (Oh torture) today to get a new one. I think then they'll be perfect. I'm really excited about something people are going to lose or forget.
I have decided that since I talked so much smack about getting a lot of stuff done in advance, I need to start outputting. I have started a few projects but haven't finished any. I still haven't finished the Guest book cards. But I do have the stuff to get the actual French Memo Board together. I actually had recruited boyface to help when I realized my ancient stapler doesn't open so I can't staple the fabric to the canvas. So... that's on hold.
Will return with crafts finished! This I promise!!
-Bo. J.
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