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Female: Hey everyone! Welcome to the last episode of décor it yourself, before we head out to the sunset and get married.
Weddings going to end up all looking the same so we are going to show you how to make yours own. We are going to start up by showing you how to make your own D.I.Y. Save The Dates.
Take some recycled card stock paper and a rich dark contact paper. Flip the contact paper over on to the back. Draw out the words, save the date and the date of your wedding on the back.
Carefully cut your letters and numbers and place them on four different pieces of card stock. When you have your four pieces, you are ready to hit your local photo both.
We went to our neighborhood bar Union Pool here in Brooklyn, New York. Bring a handful of quarters and singles and start snapping. Take a few strips to make sure you grab the shots you want.
Take the strip or strips you like best and lay them out on a piece of paper. Tape them down to secure them and bring them over to your scanner.
Scan your photos in and do any color correcting you need with Photoshop. Size and line your photos to four on one page.
Using a postcard template create a page for the back of your save the dates. Write a nice simple greeting to your friends and family and be sure to have an area for the addresses. Print, cut and whala! You have made your first step to creating your own D.I.Y wedding.
Do not go anywhere because we will be right back.
For a greener DIY wedding, check out sources likeEcoChicWeddings by Emily Anderson, the DIYbride, IndieBride and the OffbeatBride. Even Etsy has a hand made wedding series in the Storque. Check it out for tons of DIY ideas like using found rocks as please card like MizAnnie did or using birch logs for the ring bearer. I highly recommend using an Etsy solar premium invitations, most of them used recycled paper, anything even custom design your very own wedding invitations.
Be sure to read the Storque’s diamond setting article to see hand made rings. Instead of supporting the correct diamond industry, go Indie or reclaim the state jewelry.
Be sure to see Portover for a guide to a greener wedding, they show us how to use terrariums as center pieces and lovely seasonal décor.
You can even calculate the carbon footprint of your event at the green wedding guide. Offset the CO2 used by giving out seedlings for your guest to plant as favors
This week’s Quick Tip. Big tattoos make fun favors for a bachelor act or after parties.
Thank you everyone for all of your support of the last 27 weeks in Décor It Yourself and now it is time to show even more support by getting involved by this important upcoming election. Get educated and vote this November. We are piecing out for now but check in us for more home décor and static inspiration and until I return.
Remember, your nest needs you.
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