Save-the-Dates are finally sent!

I finished my save-the-dates way back before Christmas, but I wanted to wait until after new years so everyone would have their new calendars to put the stickers on. Well, I waited, and then put it off and put it off and put it off. Finally, I finished addressing the last few envelopes and dropped them off at the post office this morning. They are on the way!

Instructions for Save the Date Calendar Stickers

I got the blue linen paper for the save the date backing, so I finished those up today! Here are the instructions:

I designed the sticker in PowerPoint, then printed samples of multiple sizes to find one that fit perfectly in my hole punch. Then I copied that perfectly sized design and was able to fit 30 per page.

I printed those and used the hole punch to cut them out. I would have hated to have cut out 300 circles, so I HIGHLY recommend getting a large hole punch. I found a cute Martha Stewart one with scalloped edges.I then put all 300 stickers through the sticker maker. Mine is a XYRON250 and I was able to fit two circles across.

Then I cut the stickers into strips of 3.

I also designed the save-the-date cards in powerpoint and printed 4 per page. Each card ended up being 3 3/4" x 5"

Then I glued the sticker strips to the cards. Because the strips were slick, double sided tape didn't work, it peeled right off. I ended up using spray adhesive.

Then I cut blue linen cardstock into 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" for the backing, 4 per page, and used glue dots to attach.

My camera is low quality, and believe me, they look much nicer in person!

The countdown says 188 days! If I remember correctly, when I started this blog I had 287. My word, 99 days REALLY flew by!

Update on the save the dates

I've been addressing envelopes for the save the dates today, and the more I look at them, the more I realize they look just plain and boring!

I already have the cards printed and the sticker strips glued on, so I'm definitly not starting from scratch. The cards are a bit smaller than the envelopes, so I think I'll cut navy blue cardstock to the same size as the envelopes and use that as a backing for the white cards.

I'm SO tempted to cut up one of the papers I ordered for the pocketfolds to try it out, but I didn't buy any extra custom cut paper, so I'm not going to waste one! I'll just going to have to wait until I get the new paper delivered. Bummer!

Baby, it's cold outside!

We had a mini ice storm last night, so school was cancelled today. I used the day off to finish up my save-the-dates. I'm planning on buying envelopes tomorrow so I can get them addressed and in the mail right after Christmas.

Here I'm punching out the stickers. The original plan was to cut out circles, but thank goodness I found this paper punch, after 300 circles I would have been sick of cutting them out!


Here are all 300 paper circles, about to go through the sticker machine.


The finished product

My countdown tells me 200 more days! Wow...time is going pretty quickly!