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Rolland Glass
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rebecca gaines 72 months ago | reply
I must say they look beautiful! What printer did you use? A home printer or did you go somewhere else to do that?
Rolland Glass 72 months ago | reply
Thanks! We used a home printer. Inkjet HP.
dorkotron 71 months ago | reply
your invitations have been an inspiration for me. the paper and the ribbon look so different than what invitesite has in their photo. did you have to request anything or purchase separately something different than what they offer?
Rolland Glass 71 months ago | reply
The ribbon was purchased separately online. I forget the site, but it was only available online in the colors we needed and at the proper lengths.
The paper was indeed direct from invitesite.com, but I added a almost transparent pattern (under the graphics and text) to the paper in printing to give it a warmer, more rustic feel.
Rolland Glass 71 months ago | reply
Okay, so the site for the ribbon is: /www.jkmribbon.com They sell ribbon in bulk for really cheap. BUT, invitesite also will sometimes fill in special requests. For our programs, we used the same carmine type paper, and they gave us a brown ribbon vs the gold per our request.
kmkowalczyk 70 months ago | reply
WOW! I wasn't excited about working on my wedding invitations until now. I love what you created. I am not a graphic designer but I hope I can come up with something just as creative!
Can I ask your help on a few things?
You said you added a "rustic" underlay. How do you do this?
If I am purchasing a stock image is there an appropriate size image to order for the invites? Are all of your images stock or did you create them from scratch?
What type of fonts did you use?
Rolland Glass 70 months ago | reply
Most of the imagery was stock pulled from istockphoto.com. I bought the EPS (or vector) images. They only come in one size and you have to manually resize them to your needs using a program like Adobe Illustrator. I recolored most of the images and restructured their layout to suit my design.
The internal map I created from scratch in Illustrator. All the typography I laid out in Adobe InDesign.
The fonts were purchased from www.veer.com
The underlay was taken from a image of rust I found online. I played with its color in Photoshop and turned its opacity down to about 15%. That way, it kinda looked like parchment when printed out.
kmkowalczyk 70 months ago | reply
Can you please tell me what color you used for your ribbon off of the jkm Ribbon website? Was it the Morex swiss silky satin in "chocolate"?
Rolland Glass 70 months ago | reply
From the JKM Ribbon website: We used Offray Single Face Satin #850 color "Brown" our width was 5/8"
frizzy hair 69 months ago | reply
wow! nice!
sillyfotos 67 months ago | reply
Do you mind me asking what model printer you use? HP Inkjet what? Is it anything fancy?
Rolland Glass 67 months ago | reply
Nothing fancy. Just a standard HP ink jet printer that's about two years old now. Most printers do an extraordinary job as long as you don't try to get to crazy with them. :)
BeccaProsser 62 months ago | reply
I love what you did with your invites. Can you please tell me what color of Bazzil cardstock you used & where you purchased it? Thanks!
businesswomanwithclass 61 months ago | reply
I absolutely love your invites. The brown background paper is it like certificate cover? Can you indicate what kind of booklet you used to paste youtr invitations outside and the hotel and directions inside.
Thanks
Rolland Glass 61 months ago | reply
Hey everyone posting about the what's and where's: there are notes embedded in the image, so just rollover them and it'll tell ya what you need to know.
Rolland Glass 61 months ago | reply
For Businesswoman, and disabled girl.
The brown booklet is Bazzil basic card stock (I believe it's 12x12) which was purchased at a local scrap book store. If I recall, the color was called "Java". 12x12 card stock was cut in half at Kinkos, then each 12x6 section was scored and folded in half to form a 6x6 booklet. Invites and other cards were then mounted using flat glue dots.
rjg2972 61 months ago | reply
I absolutely love these invitations! How were they put together? Did the hotel / map go inside the invitation folder? And I can't tell what pieces have the monogram printed on them, can you tell me what they are? Thanks.
Rolland Glass 61 months ago | reply
For rjg2972:
Thanks! Invitation kits were purchased from www.invitesite.com
I then took 12x12 bazzil basic card stock and cut them in half to create 12x6 sheets, which were then scored and folded over into a booklet format. The invitation, map, and directions card measure out to 5.5x5.5. Everything was printed at home and hand cut by me. All pieces of paper were mounted onto the chocolate card stock using glue dots. Invite was then wrapped in the mango wrapping and tied with a chocolate ribbon. The piece with the monogram printed on it is actually the back side of our RSVP card.
We also make these invitations for other clients, changing around the info, colors and graphics to suit their needs.
www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5560364
rjg2972 61 months ago | reply
So the invite and folded booklet all fit inside mango wrap?
Your beautiful invitations have completely inspired me to try and design my own wedding invitations. I already have Photoshop, is it completely necessary to use Indesign and illustrator also? Or is photoshop enough?
Thanks for all the info!
Rolland Glass 61 months ago | reply
Yes, it's a booklet that all fits inside the wrap.
Honestly the issue with photoshop is the text or the image may come out slightly on the blurry side. But that's a risk it's up to you to take.