Invitations - Assembly: Phase 4, 5 and 6
Posted by: Dan on Apr 26, 2008
With the invitations scored and folded a little part of one edge had to be trimmed off. A simple yet very time consuming task. Since I had the cutter out I figured I might as well cut all the guides for the photo slider.
The guides are just slips of paper which will be folded around the photo sliders so that the sliders don’t get stuck on the tape holding everything together. It worked well on the mock-up invitation so I think it’s necessary.
I did notice one problem with the tape. In the mock-up, which was on your run-of-the-mill printer paper, the tape held fine. However, on the heavier card stock it doesn’t work as well and the invitations start to pull apart. I decided that some rubber cement would do the trick. I ran to the store, got the rubber cement and put a few invitations together. It works pretty well.
The issue with the rubber cement is the size of the brush in the thing. It’s massive. So on my way home from work today (Saturday) I picked up a small, stiff bristle paint brush. Yes… it’s work perfectly.
I managed to finish about half of the invitations tonight before I ran out of double sides tape. Now you may be asking, “Dan, I thought you weren’t using the double sided tape?” Well I am. It works well to hold the photo slider guides to the inside of the invitation. Sort of keeps it in place to make assembly a whole lot easier.
Hopefully tomorrow I’ll make a quick morning trip to the store, get some more tape and then finish up everything up.
Left to do:
- RSVP cards
- Direct sheets
- Weight everything at the post office and get correct postage
- Mail out the invitations