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To save a buck or many bucks, I hand printed my invites. I bought cotton handkerchiefs from an embroidery supply company and hand screen printed my design onto them. Vintage postcards were hunted down for multiple weeks at the Fremont Sunday Market and the Fremont Antique Mall. I only selected unused postcards from Washington, Oregon, Montana, Yellowstone, and a few random outdoor scenes from other states since I bought all the Northwest ones in the area and it wasn't enough. Travel and nature is very important to us, so I guess this was a way of including that in a subtle way. The backs were tonar-transfer printed by hand and I used a date stamp to set things straight. The envelopes were stamped with a custom return address stamp alongside vintage postage and individually numbered mailing label. I ordered the lighthouse stamps exclusively for this project because they looked the oldest out of the USPS inventory. I made sure .44 was enough postage for these thick envelopes 2 times and I ended up getting 46 sent back to me asking for more! This was super frustrating after making the steps to avoid this problem. Pressured to get these out on time, I had to slap a stupid Liberty Bell stamp outside of my grid or on top of another stamp to make things right. Yes, this kind of thing infuriates me, but you know that already. This process was very time consuming but fun as hell. I feel connected to each invite made and I love that that energy is shared in each envelope.
