Yana very graciously agreed to print the text for the invite. She was so lovely for doing so.
I didn't take a picture while there, mostly because I was freaking out about getting these suckers done. I can show you what they looked like afterwards.
A couple of days ago, I cut all these ribbons. Then Troy sat in front of a very hot stove in July to seal all of the ribbon's edges on a hot burner. It was really a detail that helped make them look uber-professional. The next day, I spent i glueing 300+ pieces of ribbons into these bows. Today I glued the little gold seals.
Then, we had to affix the printed invite that Yana so graciously printed and cut.
The purple was a lovely irridescent paper. The white is an 80# bright white Cougar. It was as gorgeous as paper can get - Cougar is the way to go.
There was a lot of glueing. Then, it's little ribbon safety belt kept it together.
I know that you can't tell from this picture, but the outer paper was a very, very, very nice irridescent cream paper. It is probably the nicest paper that I've ever used. Ever.
Here is a line-up.
This is the box.
This was only half of the 150 that I was contracted to do. If I didn't have to rush home to Frackville to meet some prior obligations, I would have finished the whole of them. I'm guessing total hours for this is around 16-20 hours. That's a broad guess. And that is not counting time to nurse busted fingers from paper cuts and glue guns. But they are gorgeous. Probably the nicest I've ever made.
And I couldn't have gotten it done without Yana or Troy. So thank you both so, so much.
