At some point in trolling wedding blogs, I developed a very clear idea of what I wanted our Save the Dates to look like. I wanted a postcard, with a vellum envelope on the back. The envelope would contain carnival tickets with our wedding information printed on the back. Here is how I made mine
1. Make confetti by using a variety of hole punches (heart, circle, star) on red and turquoise vellum paper
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2. Chose a picture for the front of the postcard
3. Create a carnival ticket shaped frame in PowerPoint
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3a. Draw a circle (mine was 1″ because my hole punch was also 1″ and I wanted the arches
to match).
3b. Draw 4 lines to create a box, with each circle in the corner
3c. Shorten the straight lines so that they just met with the circles, but don’t intersect
3d. Draw arches of the proper length over the circles
3e. Copy the arch and move it to where the edge of the hole punch will hit
3f. Make the trace arch dashed and gray
3g. Select all lines and group them into one pieces
4. Buy postcard paper ( I used Avery Postcards Print to the Edges Matte)
5. Open the postcard paper format in Word, insert photo, paste frame on top, and arrange
6. Download fonts ( I got mine from dafont.com)
7. Create a text box and write Save the Date on top of your photo
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8. Print out your postcards
Love the tickets & confetti! These look super!
Thank you so much! I was so excited to share them.
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Your engagement photo is super cute!
So cute! I love the shape. So you glued a small envelope on the back of the postcard? I was wondering if you could use the regular postcard $.28 stamp, or if it cost extra with the envelope on the back? Thanks!
Thank you! I used my Xyron to attach the envelope to the back since it is the strongest/ cleaniest glue I know of. The postage was still 28 cents. I think the postage would go up only if you put something really heavy in the envelope, but don’t quote me on that.