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My DIY Projects - Part I

Monday, December 10, 2007

I have a confession to make. While I love doing crafty things and do it yourself projects, I'm not one of those people who's imaginative enough to always come up with my own ideas. I usually look for inspiration from other sources such as the internet and magazines. So in fact, almost all of my DIY projects actually come from other people ... I just put a little twist on it and/or modify it to make it my own. But in the world of wedding blogs, Knot bios, and wedding websites where people share ideas for the purpose of inspiring others, I think that as long as you give credit where credit is due than all is good :)


So here is the very first DIY wedding project we tackled:

1. Save the Date Postcards

Totally "borrowed" this idea from the amazing Mrs. Pootiekins over at The Knot. Tuan and I had tons of fun taking photos of ourselves on our web camera (I think we had to take each shot over about 5 times because we couldn't stop laughing!). Then we just cropped and edited the photos in Photoshop to make them look like they were taken in a photobooth, added a red background with white text, and had them printed by VistaPrint.com (100 free large postcards was the deal at the time!). Each STD was mailed out in an Ivory A7 envelope purchased from Staples. Mailing labels with a butterfly (one of our themes!) were used for mailing addresses while the return address was printed on the back using my inkjet printer. To add a little pizzaz to the envelopes, I adorned them with vintage Cavallini Parisien stamps (purchased from eBay) in cranberry coloured ink.




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