With our Vegas Wedding in the books that meant the thank you cards were next on the list…what to do?..Elvis of course, glitter and all — Thank you…thank you very much. Check the play-by-play below…

The Process.

After cutting and scoring the paper I traced over the lettering with a glue pen — you can only do a small section at a time before the glue will start to dry, making the glitter hard to apply.

Sprinkle.

Let dry for a few seconds…tap off excess…violá!

The Materials.

Here’s the goods:

• Embossing Powder
• The rubber stamp from our gift boxes was recycled for the envelopes by dabbing only the Alan + Jill section with a cloth wet with ink.
• Bone Folder Tool for hand-scoring the paper
• Quickie Glue Ppen to trace the lettering before applying the glitter
• X-acto knife for cutting the paper

Epson Hot Press was used specifically for the reason of it being the thickest paper I could feed through my Epson R2880 (I only needed to produce around 10 of these)…that is until it proceeded to jack my printer heads. Long story, but I did get a replacement. To produce the last round of prints I sourced out Curtis Bailey, a photographer in the area (check the website — some great stuff on there) that happens to have a Epson Stylus Pro 9900 that could take care of printing them without problems — thanks again Curtis.

Published.

Watch for this card in the upcoming book “1000 More Greetings” by Rockport Publishing hitting the book stores everywhere Fall 2010.

Questions?

Feel free to hit me up with any questions you might have. I really enjoyed making these, so if you’re looking or know someone needing printed materials for their wedding I’d love to quote the job out Hope you’ve enjoyed this, take care.