Invitation Madness!!

Right, well it was quite a sleepless night last night trying to get the invitations done, but i finally have made..... ONE!!! But the rest should be easier now that they are all printed and its just the glueing bits to go... So here is how it went:

First there were materials and ideas:

Hobbycrafts were having a sale and i might have gone just a little crazy with the ribbons!








Below was the plan i drew up which i quickly scrapped once i discovered how long it was going to take to do...

Then there was the first attempt:

Finally we moved onto the "insides" - by we, i mean ME, the boys were happy for me to make the first one and then would help make the rest.... YEAH RIGHT! So i wanted software to help me make the inside and back cover of the invites but it was almost impossible to find any Mac software that was free and would HELP me make the cards - i downloaded a trial version of Adobe Indesign, Illustrator and Photoshop - useless (this may be because i am still learning how to use a Mac)... Then i downloaded DesignPro, couldn't get my head around it (this was very late at night)... Finally i tried to use paintbrush which crashed just as i was finishing the inside (and i hadn't saved!!!!!!!!) .... Took a deep breath and decided to use good old trusty word, and i found out that you can do a "Publishing Layout Document" on it "oooooooohhhhhhh" - very impressed was i, now that it was about 2ish in the morning - small minds, easily pleased!

So then a number of things were tried:

 Pictures, pictures and more pictures... Sepia, antique or black and white? Who knew you could do so much with em?









Then after much consumption of el Coca Cola....

And much google searching on the tinternet... We finally had a template and the production line started:

And the final product???? Finished this morning after some much needed sleep :) 

So invites are done, now just need to wait for RSVP's so we can know numbers and finally book the venue!