Hybrid Wedding invitation/ inside text design

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In early 2017, I made about 25 mockups of wedding invitations for our daughter's fall wedding. We ended up choosing 5 designs, and with help from a few friends in and outside of my cardmaking group, we made 150 (or so) invitations encompassing those designs. LOTS of die cutting. I will say that unless you have the dies in hand, you'll spend more money on dies and materials than if you just ordered the laser-cut cards for $5 a pop or whatever they charge. However, on the flip side, you do justify beefing up your craft room stash! lol Our daughter's wedding flowers were dahlias, so I utilized Violet Irisovna's lovely dahlia stamp (element # 69952) from here at DigitalScrapbook.com to enhance the design of the inside of the invitation (this post). Unfortunately, I only got one photo of the inside invitation using that dahlia stamp, but all of the invitation text pages were printed on my home printer and sized for the shape of each invitation. Along with some name tags for one of the invitations, and names and thumbprint/heart graphics for another that I designed and printed, this is truly a hybrid project. Materials used include: Crafter's Companion Die-sire Spring Garden (flower-designed half-oval ); Crafter's Companion Die-sire Garden Party (half oval lace); Rose Summer lace flower (lattice-shaped edge die) used with Beauty Club's lattice corner die; Toopoot flower dies (front of invitations); Crafter's Companion tag shape die (came with Gemini electronic cutter) embossed with Darice heart embossing folder; Spellbinders S5-182 Borderabilities A2 Scalloped Borders Dies; stitched heart dies and stitched flower-scalloped dies from Hunulu; Sizzix 660222 Thinlits Die Set, Scribbles & Splat by Tim Holtz, Sizzix 661206 Thinlits Die Set, Garden Greens by Tim Holtz & Stampin' Up's So Detailed thinlets die. I'm posting 10 photos of cards; with a link back to this post for details on all. Probably about 180 woman-hours (or more!) tied up in designing, mocking up, printing invitation inserts, and making 150 invitations. I had lots of help, thank God, or it would have taken me all year.