Snail Mail! (Our Save The Dates)

Although it took a while for our actual vision of magnetic photo strip Save The Dates to come to life, they finally have -- and we snail mailed them out! YAY!!!

(Hard at work assembling the Save The Date's)

After both photo shoot sessions, we combined three new images from Tom's cousin and one image from our wedding photographer. Then I got busy in Corel Paint Shop Pro X and made them into a photo strip inspired by the ones you get at the mall -- complete with a top graphic. It was obvious ours had to say LOVE! That's the the whole reason behind all of this!

Here are how our Save The Dates looked in graphic-only form:

(Designed by yours truly in Corel Paint Shop Pro X)

And here they are completed in ready-to-mail form:

Now, I knew that we wanted to make these into magnets. Silly me, I just thought that we would cut off a few small chunks of adhesive magnet to put on the top and bottom. That obviously wouldn't have looked too hot and might have made for uneven paper on people's fridges... thank God for my sexy and smart sweetheart reminding me that we needed to put magnet backing on the whole backs of each photo strip - so that's what we did.

(Showing off his proud magnetic backing skills!)

Magnetic backing wasn't enough for these to be considered completed though. I have a strong appreciation (as I'm sure you all do too, of course) for crafty, cute packaging so once we had all of our magnets done we embellished these beauties. That's where the extra paper, tags saying "Made With Love" and raffia bows came in. I am really proud of our Save The Dates and couldn't have done it without Tom (so thanks baby- if you're reading this!)

(Just a few of the many Save The Dates all ready to be stuffed in envelopes and mailed out!)

My next post will be on a step-by-step tutorial on how to re-create these beauties. :) Get readdyyy for some crafting!

Did you make your Save The Dates from scratch? Why or why not?