Monday, March 21, 2005

More Wedding Invitations

I have received some wonderful invitations/save the dates. And of course, I don't throw them away. I keep all, as mailed, with all elements.

Save the date.

WedInvite4

My friend, Katie used a leaf, oak tree as her art element for her fall wedding. A tree she created was used on all of her favors. The colors were perfect.

KatieInvite

Chi, printed back and front of velum. Tied up all elements with a red thread and rice paper, used a little piece of torn red paper on the back of the envelope in lieu of a seal, and mailed it all in a beautiful vellum envelope. It was stunning!

chiInvite1

chiInvite4

Invitation was printed on both sides of vellum, this is a flower image only on the back, invitation and text on the front. The flower printed on back shown through the text.

chiInvite5

5 comments:

Robyn said...

Very Nice! Question: I am doing some scrapbooking and am trying to print on vellum for that project. The ink doesn't want to dry. Is there a specific ink to use in an inkjet printer?

Anonymous said...

Hi there - Chi here !
A few things about vellum that make it difficult to work with:
1. It does not have natural fibers for ink to grab onto
2. Its finishing process and chemicals also make it difficult for ink to settle (lots of plastic and wax).

After a few experients on different printers, I discovered high-quality laser printers work the best. On bubble-jets, I found allot of bleeding and the ink running all over the place. A really important thing that high-quality laser printers do is "heat-set" the ink after it has been set on the paper/vellum - this process prevents the ink from bleeding and running.

If you do not have a high-quality laser printer at home (they are really expensive), I suggest printing your designs on regular white paper and bringing the printout and your vellum to a digital printshop (kinkos, office depot, etc). Ask them to color copy your designs on the vellum.

Thanks Kim for the feature. Love you !
--chi

Anonymous said...

Hello,

I love your idea! Is there any chance of finding out where you got the flower pic? I've been looking everywhere on the net with not much success. Is it a flower that you found with a white background? Or did you take it yourself?

Thank you!
Isabelle

Kim Carney said...

I think that is mine friends, but do you want a silouette of a flower or a real flower?

I have tons of flowers on flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/somethingtosee/sets/72057594049950379/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/somethingtosee/sets/340444/

Anonymous said...

Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one ,so that when we
finally meet the person , we will know how to be grateful.

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