I have already designed them and am doing it to save money. Or would it be cheaper to just order them from someone?
2006-10-27 07:33:02 · 6 answers · asked by bonobarb 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Weddings
What do you mean engrave them? I made my own, and it turned out much cheaper, even after putting special touches, and buying the tools and materials to do those special touches. If by "engrave" you mean something like a raised symbol (like wedding bells, hearts or doves, your monograhm, etc.) or the line around the edge that's raised, then you can purchase a few cheap items to "emboss" that design onto your invitation. If this sounds like what you're looking for feel free to email me with more information. rdnkchic2003@yahoo.com. What I did was bought a stamp (wedding bells) and embossing ink, embossing powder and an embossing gun. After I printed the invitations, I then stamped my design, sprinkled on the powder, then shook off the extra (much like glitter and glue) and heated it with the gun. It made the design in silver, and it was raised so you could run your finger across and feel the difference. There's a number of ways you could use this, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.
2006-10-27 08:28:57 · answer #1 · answered by rdnkchic2003 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I purchased an invitation kit from Walmart that was made by Wilton. The borders were embossed with pearl roses. That would save you a ton of money!
If you want to do the whole thing by scratch, then I would advise against embossing them. There are embossing tools, but it would require you to trace out the pattern on each and every invitation by hand. It takes forever, and will make your hand very sore after a while. Not to mention that you'd have to buy the embossing tools and templates.
2006-10-27 07:58:48 · answer #2 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can only thermograph them if you have a printing machinery to apply the glaze and a conveyor oven to cook it.
When you say engrave I presume you mean emboss and you can only do that if you have a male and female cast boss and a fly press.
You would also need to use a guillotine to cut the cards or a ram punch and die if you want them deckle edged.
If you don't have the equipment you need to get the job done by someone who has.
2006-10-27 07:45:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try going to Michaels and see if they have any type of engraving kit. I also designed my own invitations and I embossed them myself using embossing tool kits that I got from Michaels. Good luck!
2006-10-27 08:10:05 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can buy blank ones or kits and print them yourself.
You can also have them printed at a Kinko's if you don't have a good printer.
Thermograph and engraving is doing the raised surfaces- you can't do that at home unless you buy a press.... and the craft ones don't work well.
2006-10-27 07:35:34 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hey first of all congratulations. im getting married too and i made my own invitations. I used the embossing powder that you can get at Micheals. trust me its so much more cheap if you make them your self. Good luck to you.
2006-10-27 11:51:36 · answer #6 · answered by mclafl112506 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋