DIY: "reserved" signs

I had so much fun putting together our "reserved" signs for our dinner tables. Check it out!

Start with 4x6 picture frames:


Cut out some cardboard:


Go outside with your chalkboard spray paint! This stuff is awesome. It turns any surface into a chalkboard, and it's available in the spray paint section at Home Depot!


Spray. The label recommends two coats:


Phew! It was a hot day!


Wait 24 hours for the paint to fully dry. Then use chalk to write whatever you like:


Put your cardboard into your beautiful picture frames, et voila!


Fun for the whole family!

STDs

I don't think I've ever posted about our finished save-the-dates. Take a look!


A simple postcard. Really, I don't have the creativity to make anything else. :) And in order to save some money, we decided to send these to our out-of-town guests only.

I jumped the gun a bit on these, because I showed them to our planner and she made some really good suggestions about how to make them better...too bad they were already printed.

I'll be sure to consult her every step of the way on our next stationary venture: invitations. Eek!!

DIY - not so hard!

I had no idea how to get my hands on Adobe Illustrator, and everything I learned about PhotoShop is a vague and distant memory. I'm not too confident in my designing skills anyway, but I do know my way around Microsoft Word.

I pretty much copied a graphic I found from a save-the-date that I liked onto a Word document. Then I used almost the same wording on that save-the-date, then found similar fonts on my work computer!

I didn't know how to put four on one page like a postcard, so I just made it a full 8.5" x 11" size to be scaled at the copier's

I saved it as a PDF, put it on a flash drive and made my way to Kinko's. There, they got me my cardstock, scaled it down to fit four on a page, and made a buncha color copies! The colors turned out perfectly, and it looks like a bona fide save-the-date!

We saved a whole lot of money doing it ourselves, and now, making our own invitations and RSVP cards doesn't seem so hard!