cassiopeia
03-07-2008, 09:17 PM
Ok, well, I can't rave about Vista Print enough, and I totally got all of these for only the cost of s&h ($13 for 200 postcards and about $10 for 200 magnets). They run free promotions ALL the time (sign up for their newsletter, it comes almost daily) and I ordered two separate sets of 100 free postcards and 100 free small magnets. I did the Save the Dates first and ordered them before we had picked a location (hence the non-specific town). I got the flowery border from www.istockphoto.com (http://www.istockphoto.com) and have used it on the postcards as well. I designed both using photoshop.
Here are the Save the Dates not a great picture, but the quality of printing is fantastic:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/STD.jpg
Our colors are smokey blue and mossy green, I was thrilled with the color I ended up on these with but have heard mixed things about their color printing, so went with B&W for the RSVP postcards. Their postcards are a little oddly sized (5.47"x4.21"); at www.overnightprints.com (http://www.overnightprints.com) you can get standard 4x6 postcards for about $30 for 100 and also have the option of getting matte rather than glossy front, which was tempting to me.
For the RSVP cards I wanted to incorporate the thermography raised printing of the printed card part of the invitation (the one thing I splurged on and had done by someone else). So I bought a great RSVP stamp from www.paper-source.com (http://www.paper-source.com) for about $6 and embossed the "RSVP" onto the cards. I did have a hard time (and am not completely satisfied yet) finding an ink that would stick to the glossy finish of the card, the first two I tried evaporated when I used the heat embossing tool, this one worked ok but I am waiting on one last stamp pad to come in the mail before I tackle all 130 to be stamped/embossed. I had hoped to emboss these with a super fine gold embossing powder but the glossy finish is a bit static-y for embossing powder to ONLY stick on the ink, so I really recommend using clear embossing powder on it.
FRONT:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/RSVP.jpg
Closeup of embossing:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/RSVPclose.jpg
BACK (please don't use mom's address to send hate mail, she's a really nice lady and I don't want to pi$$ her off , hehe ):
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/RSVPback.jpg
Here are the Save the Dates not a great picture, but the quality of printing is fantastic:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/STD.jpg
Our colors are smokey blue and mossy green, I was thrilled with the color I ended up on these with but have heard mixed things about their color printing, so went with B&W for the RSVP postcards. Their postcards are a little oddly sized (5.47"x4.21"); at www.overnightprints.com (http://www.overnightprints.com) you can get standard 4x6 postcards for about $30 for 100 and also have the option of getting matte rather than glossy front, which was tempting to me.
For the RSVP cards I wanted to incorporate the thermography raised printing of the printed card part of the invitation (the one thing I splurged on and had done by someone else). So I bought a great RSVP stamp from www.paper-source.com (http://www.paper-source.com) for about $6 and embossed the "RSVP" onto the cards. I did have a hard time (and am not completely satisfied yet) finding an ink that would stick to the glossy finish of the card, the first two I tried evaporated when I used the heat embossing tool, this one worked ok but I am waiting on one last stamp pad to come in the mail before I tackle all 130 to be stamped/embossed. I had hoped to emboss these with a super fine gold embossing powder but the glossy finish is a bit static-y for embossing powder to ONLY stick on the ink, so I really recommend using clear embossing powder on it.
FRONT:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/RSVP.jpg
Closeup of embossing:
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/RSVPclose.jpg
BACK (please don't use mom's address to send hate mail, she's a really nice lady and I don't want to pi$$ her off , hehe ):
http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e11/chultin/DIY/RSVPback.jpg