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Invitation: Mock-up

And so my dad said, “Mag-resign kana sa trabaho mo!”. Gawa na lang daw ako invitations.

This is the craftiest I’ve ever been. I don’t even know where it came from. I just hope I can make money from this as much as I do from my regular job because this is more enjoyable than work in the office.

Anyway, I just finished the mock-up of our invitation. I set my goal to finish this by January. Guess what? Today is 31st of January. That was close!

I spent months looking for materials and creating the layout. 90% of which goes to creating the layout as I kept on changing it until I finally settled on this. Search through the archives of this blog and you’ll find when and where I found the materials (jute string, kraft paper, etc.)

Before anything else, I would like to give credit to our inspirations.

LAYOUT

We wanted our invitation to look handcrafted, even if it was photoshopped. The trick was to use fonts that look like handwriting and images that look hand-drawn.

Problem was, I could not find a hand-drawn map so I made one myself. Traced a map in Photoshop…

..then added an image of a castle for Caleruega (di naman obvious na castle) and house for Rosemont (added a veranda)..

Other images came from the web, I just changed the color.

Another consideration for layout is the dimension. You need to consider the size of envelope and paper you’re going to use and try to maximize that to save mother nature. Of course, one goal of DIY is to save money, right?

MATERIALS

Need to find materials and know where to buy the cheapest one.