Opinions from those who made their own invites

I did this!

I got them from hobbycraft!

A lot of people here have used PDA card and craft. You can buy ready cut and folded card which makes things a lot easier!

I brought cards from the range and most of my decorations thinking about it!

I used PDA and have found their customer service to be amazing, I keep forgetting to select my colour so they keep ringing me to check. I ordered pocketfolds, envelopes and normal card. I found the normal card to be expensive but I cant find the right colour anywhere else and I dont need much so its fine.

I bought packs of black card and ivory parchment paper from Ryman and have cut everything to size with a guillotine..just dont do what I did and change the way you want your invites after you have printed and cut everything..I have to do it all twice!!

Cutting it yourself will save money but you will not get everything the same size but its unlikely to be more than a few mm out so nobody will notice. (I hope!)

I cant recommend pda enough, they have all sizes and styles of ready folded cards to choose from and when you spend over so much you get to chose a free gift which is always nice

Do you have to spend a certain amount in one go? All my purchases have been separate..

Thanks, will have a look this evening - had a quick look now and there's loads on PDA

How much do you think it cost you per card with all finishing bits?

I spent £50 on stuff from ebay and hobby craft and made 60 day invites and 86 night ones so not much per card!

OH and I are making our own pocketfold invites, We are buying A3 sheets of hammered Ivory card online (can't remember what site off the top of my head) and using a template of one make as a mock-up, craeting them from scratch. The A3 sheets are costing around £15 for 80 sheets which is more than enough. Just need to find somewhere that does thinner card in my colour shceme for inside!!

Pda card and craft fan here too!! we bought the pocket folds and did everything else ourselves! it takes time, but people really appreciated the effor that we had made!! i wouldnt do it again for that many invites tho ?

I like your invites flowmojo. What type of card is that called?

LC to be, if you are thinking of using PDA, they do a card swatch pack, which is £1 (+VAT and delivery, so £1.80 in total). I ordered mine a couple of weeks ago and it came the next day! Really useful to see all the colours as they sometimes look different on a computer screen (plus you can't see all the lovely pearly effects etc)

https://www.pdacardandcraft.co.uk/standard-card-swatch-pack.html

After ordering ours, we chose colours and will now be ordering our pocketfolds towards the end of this year.

I bought the paper and folded it myself ! My mum is a keen card maker though so had all the folder and the trimming machines!! not sure of their technical names!! i also had enough paper wleft over from the trimmed card to make the place settings!!

I'm not sure what Im going to do for invitations yet.... but here are the Save The Dates I made last week, I used some cheap luggage tags from Ryman's and hand stamped each one with light brown and green. I handwrote the message on the back and bunged them into recycled envelopes with more pretty hearts on the outside.

Depending on what type of invites you like, the standard folded card or the pocket fold would be a bit different prices. I made my own standard A5 folded cards and all the materials to make 100 invites from The Range and e-bay was about £60 I think so that works out to being less than £1 per invite.

I'm looking for a picture, but can't find it!

Heya x

Can you help me too with this as I am completely new to all this DIY stationary..

Do you buy the card from PDA plain? Where do you then get the stuff printed onto it? xx

Hiya,

Can you help me on this too, so do you just buy the card on PDA/Ebay and then print it yourself? If so what sort of place do you got to to get printing in the quantities we need?

Thanks xo

Hiya,

Can you help me on this too, so do you just buy the card on PDA/Ebay and then print it yourself? If so what sort of place do you got to to get printing in the quantities we need?

Thanks xo

Hiya,

Can you help me on this too, so do you just buy the card on PDA/Ebay and then print it yourself? If so what sort of place do you got to to get printing in the quantities we need?

Thanks xo