Tutorial: A-7 Pocket Folders

As I promised yesterday, what follows are step-by-step directions on how to create your own A-7 pocket folders, similar in style to those for sale at Paper Source. The pocket folders are perfect for use in DIY wedding invitations (I’ll show you my own finished invitations once the bride has mailed them out). Some different [...]

Working working working…

Somehow a week has passed since my last post.
Meh.
Holidays love to throw a monkey wrench into things. And usually I like monkeys.
I’ve been busy working on my sister-in-law’s wedding invitations. As I’m sure many of you can relate, they are taking much longer to complete than I had anticipated.
To date, 12 Duck Permanent Adhesive Rollers [...]

Please tell me what to do

My husband’s brother and sister are both getting married this summer (not to each other, ew). I offered both couples a wedding gift of handmade invitations and both accepted. I spent the last several days in a frantic whirlwind of wedding invitation assembly for couple #1. (Don’t get me started on the printer nightmare I [...]

What happened to the paper in Paper Source?

As I’ve mentioned several times before, I owe my love of bookbinding to Paper Source. When I was in graduate school for Art Therapy at Lesley University, I passed by Paper Source on my way to and from my classes. I jumped at the opportunity to work there when I saw the “help wanted” sign [...]