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A sweet, homemade animated ‘save the date’ and how you can make your own

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I have something very special, fun and inspiring to share with you all this afternoon – a homemade animated ‘save the date’! This was sent to me by the lovely Beth who is getting married to Ben this coming July 2012. She described it as a country-wedding inspired, budget ‘save the date’ – why don’t you watch it for yourself…

How fun is that? And it’s accompanied by a song (Crystal Fighters Plage) that seems to perfectly fit the style, and it’s short but sweet – I would be pretty excited if I was a wedding guest and this landed in my inbox. So after watching it half a dozen times I decide to ask Beth how they created it, as I was pretty sure some of your lovely readers might want to create something like it yourself.

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Handmade ‘tying the knot’ save the dates made from brown card and twine

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The joys of having a photographer husband-to-be! If you’re the lovely Lisa, one of my blog readers, it means you can make pretty wedding details and get great pictures of them – which in turn means lovely photos to share with you all.

Lisa was inspired by my own rustic ‘save the dates’ and got in touch to share hers – I think they are so beautiful and they incorporate a really neat extra that Lisa found on this blog whilst searching for inspiration – a twine knot.

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Fun and alternative ‘save the date’ idea from a couple getting married at Welsh Green Weddings

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This fun and alternative ‘save the date’ was sent to me by Simone of Welsh Green Weddings – this bride- and groom-to-be are getting married next spring at Welsh Green Weddings. A really simple idea for how to make a ‘save the date’ – you could either email them, print them out at home on recycled card or get them printed as photos and stick them to recycled card.

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Creating a handmade style ‘save the date’ for the uncrafty bride

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There has been quite a bit of talk in the wedding blog world about those couples who want a handcrafted feel to their wedding whilst not feeling they are particuarly crafty or creative. For any brides out there feeling like they’re not creative enough, or don’t have the time to be handcrafting wedding stationery, then this stamp (or one like it) could be your answer.

There are lots of businesses offering custom made or personalised stamps, but I thought this design was particularly nice and it gives you more than just your names or address. Stamped in black onto my *favourite recycled brown craft card it would still have that handmade feel. This beautiful stamp (costing under £30) is made by Etsy seller Love To Create Stamps who are based in Florida but ship worldwide.

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Original fabric ‘save the date’ idea with personalised ribbon hanger

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Today we have more fab ideas for wedding projects shared by one of my readers, Gemma, who writes Blossom Bells. Gemma created these sweet ‘save the dates’ inspired by a tutorial she saw in the July issue of Sew Hip magazine, written by Lilipopo.

Gemma, who is currently planning her wedding, decided to make these hanging fabric ‘save the dates’ from linen and a pretty back (that you can’t see) from organic cotton from the Cloud9 range. You can also buy organic fabrics from Organic Cotton.

Gemma designed a heart and bird shape, but also did a bat because both her and her husband-to-be have wildlife-related jobs – a fun way to incorporate your interests into your wedding.

Next Gemma stamped their wedding date onto the plain linen side using a custom stamp from The English Stamp Company with a water based screen printing ink. Another lovely touch from Gemma is making the hanging tags from ribbon with their wedding website link on it. That way your guests can find out details about your upcoming wedding.

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Getting married in 2012? Win custom made letterpress ‘save the dates’ from Artcadia

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The wonderful Vici-Jane from Artcadia is giving away up to 100 custom designed letterpress ‘save the date’ cards with envelopes to one lucky winner. All you have to do is go to the Artcadia website, pick your favourite ‘save the date’ design from the collection, and leave a comment about it on their blog.

As the winner, you’ll not only be able to pick whether you have your ‘save the dates’ digitally or letterpress printed, but you’ll also be able to choose from any of their designs or get one custom-made.

The closing date in October 31st and the winner will be contacted by November 5th 2011. So what are you waiting for all you 2012 couples? Don’t forget to mention in your blog comment that you heard about it at The Natural Wedding Company.

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Pretty vintage inspired save the date magnets

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It is so wonderful being allowed to share other handmade wedding projects from my readers. Today’s exquisitely created ‘save the dates’ are made a Creative Designer, so those of us looking at them thinking ‘I wish I could be that creative on the computer’ – this lady is skilled and talented and it’s what she does for a living.

Jess, the bride-to-be, used a badge maker to create the front of the magnets, and attached a magnet to the back. I love this idea that your family and friends can stick it onto their fridge at home to remind them.

On top of making the magnets, Jess also designed and made the packaging! She bought the card and other materials from Hobbycraft – don’t they look sweet all parceled up?

Charlie

Handmade floral luggage tag ‘save the dates’

Charlie

This is a pretty exciting blog post for me today – these gorgeous floral luggage tag style ‘save the dates’ have been made by one of my readers. Another Charlie, who is getting married next August sent me this picture of her handmade ‘save the dates’.

These are actually from a fab free template from a website called Eat Drink Chic so if you’d like to make them yourself you can – what a fab website and resource – have a look here.

Charlie told me that they printed them onto textured card, before cutting out the luggage tags. They bought a stamp for the back of the tags and used gardening twine for the string. It’s lovely to hear that Charlie and her husband-to-be had a fun time making these together – Nick and I certainly had stressful moments attempting to make things together!

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Featured in Simply Beautiful Magazine with a step-by-step guide to making my ‘save the date’ cards

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I am so excited to share with you that I’m in a real life magazine. Never did I imagine 7 years ago when I started dreaming up what became The Natural Wedding Company that I would be featured in a glossy magazine.

You can find me in the September issue of Simply Beautiful Magazine sharing details about our wedding stationery and a step-by-step guide with never-seen-before photos of how to make my ‘save the date’ cards. I created this especially for the magazine so very excited to share it.

There’s also some of my top tips for having a greener wedding and saving money while you’re at it – so if you’re interested in having a read, get down to your local WHSmith and get a copy. Would love to know what you think if you’ve had a read.

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Do it yourself: eco-friendly brown card and raffia rustic ‘save the dates’

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Here goes with the first of my ‘do it yourself’ guides from our wedding – lots of detail, I know, but this is for anyone wishing to recreate elements themselves.

*Please note that my ‘how to’ guide is for individual, private use, and not to be used for distribution or resale. Many thanks.*

Would love to know what you think and if there’s anything else you want details of.

Our ‘save the dates’ were envelope-less and quite tiny. I saw this fantastic idea and thought it was brilliant (some people are so talented!) – so I set about making my own version.

We used 100% recycled brown card from a wonderful website called eco-craft (we bought almost all our paper and card for wedding projects from here) – I love that this brown card is called ‘Hairy Manilla’ – very un-weddingy!

I created the design on Microsoft Word – fitting three ‘save the dates’ to one piece of landscape A4 (I’ll include full details of fonts used at the bottom of the post for anyone interested).

I wanted something simple and quite rustic looking, so we just went for text and a tiny image, similar to the cow parsley that lines the hedges in May at the time of our wedding.

It took a bit of fiddling about and printing off copies to get the text in the right place for where we wanted the folds. The card is scored in two places, making three parts, and then sealed at the back (hence no need for an envelope).

After printing the ‘save the dates’, I used my trusty guillotine (couldn’t have got through many a moment without it – essential kit for anyone planning on making paper items for their wedding) to slice them into three. Next I faintly drew on pencil lines for where the folds would be, then used the blade on my scissors to gently score a fold.

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