I'm STD free

Well, it finally happened, we sent out the save-the-dates.

They took way longer to put together than I ever anticipated. But, in the end I am extremely proud of the result.

The entire process started with my FH and I conducting our own photo shoot in the stairwell of the building where we met. We used a timer to take the shots, and after 2+ hours we had some usable images. Here's an example:

I didn't want to use the full colour images, so my FH used photo shop to convert the image to black and white (leaving the brightly coloured wall behind us in all its orange glory). The orange backdrop was what brought us to use the stair well in the first place - it matches our colour scheme!

We attached the photos to the front of the card stock using photo adhesive squares. We stamped the card stock using our save-the-date stamp and white embossing powder, and then heated the embossing powder with a heat gun such that we were left with a perfectly embossed image. We were going to finish here, but I realized that the front of the card didn't indicate for whom they were saving the date. So, using a nice big hole punch, we created circles that contained our names, wedding location and date. 

 (Names blurred for privacy)

Inside we typed our save-the-date poem in a great font (called Just Another Stamp) that we downloaded from dafont.com and attached two stickers we made (that were inspired by the great Martha Stewart). 

We didn't do anything fancy with the envelopes - we decided we'd save that for the actual invites. Instead, we just used address labels that were made snazzier with some free damask clip art that we found online.

So here's the final STD:

 All images in the post are taken by me.

I'm excited to be free of these save-the-dates. It's so nice to be able to cross items off of our long DIY list.

Is it strange to be happy to be free of the save-the-dates? Shouldn't I be sad to see them go?