Invitation Making party

Believe it or not! this party consisted mainly of groomsmen who did a totally fabulous job! i'm so impressed =) haha

Me and Gary stayed up till 2 am the night before finalizing and printing out the design of the inserts. I have to say I'm an super happy with how they turned out!

Step 1: Cut Cut Cut!
10:00 am Saturday

Daniel Lui arrives 1st! with a delicious box of donuts yum! We all start out on a cutting fest, we printed 4 per sheet and thanks to the very thin green border around each insert.. we all had to cut very slowly and carefully! haha to a point where I think many of our thumbs began to ache! But the guys dared not admit it ^_^













Step 2: Break and Eat!
1:00pm
Gary bought in-and-out lunch for everyone to eat! yum!

Step 3: Cut more!
Here Mike Gary and Howard teamed up to cut/exacto knife out the 18x18 paper into 1 inch strips to create the pseudo ribbon on the outside of the card













Step 4: Pokey flower power time
We started sticking the flowers together with sticky tape, Guys liked to dub each other "flower boy" when passed the job haha. While Joy poked cleverly used the crack our dining table to poke perfect holes into our pseudo ribbon and flowers!













Step 5: Flower boy/Brad man time We starting forming an assembly line and each job was dubbed a fun name: flower boy, brad man, tape man, leaf man, the cutting club lol. We carefully use the Heart brads to attach the flower to the psuedo ribbon, and secure it with a tiny piece of tape in the back, forming what looked like a beautiful bouquet of white flowers on long paper stems haha =)













Step 6: Glue tape it all together
THANK GOODNESS for glue tape, we tried glue stick, and it sucked.

Step 7: Glue down the silver dots
this was by far one of the more tedious task. Extra tricky, because the paper was so delicate. It may look like a ribbon with silver dots, but actually it was originally a piece of scrap book paper that Dan Lui and Mike cut strip by strip with a paper cutter. Luckily Lisa-anne stopped by with a friend just in time to help us with the gluing! ^_^

Step 8: Leaf'in time
We stuck on all the leaves under the flowers, which was a lot of fun. We had one person who would put glue on the leaf, and another who would physically stick the leaf on. haha Steve was the official leaf puncher, believe it or not, I only gave him 2 pieces of green paper. haha and i dunno how he did it, but he somehow got ~400 leaves out of them! We had so many extra leaves in the end, on a whim I stuck one on the back of one of the invitations, liked how it looked, and then we stuck it on all the rest of the invitations haha =D













Step 9: stuff em!
we stuffed the cards! and now they're ready to get addressed and sent out =)

Remember to send us your address! ^_^

I hope my breakdown will be helpful for future brides =) Key is to have lots of fun and lots of help =)

Materials:
White tossing flowers
18x18 card stock paper: cream/swan (found in Martha Stewart section in Michaels)
12x12 paper: green (Michaels scrapbooking section)
leaf craft punch: (found in Martha Stewart section in Michaels)
A7 pocket-folds: strawberry (paper source)
A7 envelopes: strawberry (paper source)
Poking needle thingie (card making kit)
Mini Heart Brads (Beverly Fabric and Crafts)
8.5 x 11 Card stock: white (Staples)
Glue tape (Staples/office depot--We used ALOT! we went through 12+ rolls and gary had to go to the store twice to buy more)

Thanks you so much Ihui, Joy, Daniel, Steve, Mike, Howard, Jamie and Lisa-anne for all your help ^_^