More Adventures with Wedding Invitations

I am past the half way point with my Sister-In-Law’s Wedding invitations!

I just finished creating the Monogram for the front. In my last post I showed you how I used embossing to add a little WOW to the invite. Well, here is another one for you! I wanted to emboss a frame for the monogram with Certainly Celery (her wedding colors are celery, chocolate, and gold), but I do not have a Certainly Celery Craft Pad. How did I do it? By using my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig of course!

Using the clear plastic sheet to position the stamp correctly was going to take way to long, so I had to be a little creative for mass production. Here is what I did:

First I cut pieces of Very Vanilla card stock that were the same size as the wooden block of the stamp I was using. Then I stacked up all 140 squares and ran a highlighter down one corner. This was the corner to place in the Stamp-a-ma-Jig. You will see why I needed to do that in just a minute.

To stamp the frame in celery, I placed the pink corner of the card stock next to the Stamp-a-ma-jig and stamped the image with Certainly Celery Classic Ink. I made sure to have the Stampin’ UP! copyright on the wooden block facing the same way each time I stamped.

Classic Ink will not stay wet enough to emboss with, so I needed to stamp with VersaMark directly over the image again. First I ran the Embossing Buddy over the Card Stock, and then placed the pink corner next to the Stamp-a-ma-Jig. Using VersaMark Ink, I stamped the frame directly over the certainly celery image. Again, I made sure that the copyright was facing the same way each time.

Since I placed the paper and the wooden block next to the Stamp-a-ma-jig the same way both times there is no need for a clear plastic sheet because the stamp and the image will line up perfectly every time.

Clear Embossing Powder was poured over the image, and then heated with the Heat Gun.

I stamped the Monogram in Chocolate Chip Classic Ink, and cut out the frame with my Paper Snips. Here is the finished product!!

This picture doesn’t really show the embossed image very well, but wait until you see the completed invitation! Let’s hope they will be done tomorrow!

Happy Stampin!