The Design Process & Procrastination

I won't lie to you, I went into this invitation endeavor with the soul intent of shamelessly copying Mrs. Panther in any way I could. I figured I wouldn't get mine to be near as beautiful and I certainly couldn't afford letterpress or calligraphy, but I was going to try to do my best with what I had.

I couldn't find a background online I liked, so I bought a pack of designed card stock from Michaels and scanned a piece. Then I edited some color in using Corel PaintShop Pro after finding the colors I wanted to use via Pantone. Bam step one down and it only took me about 2 hours! I decided on the wording I wanted and then spent another 3 hours looking through every free font known to man to find something I liked. Then I tried to figure out how to include our awesome silhouettes. The design process is actually quite boring to describe, just picture a tired and frazzled Miss Ticket sitting at a computer and occasionally smacking her head into her desk.

Image via The Online Sleep Clinic

I frequently put this project off, I would get frustrated with my inability to figure something out and just walk away. My sanity was (and continues to remain) more important to me than these little pieces of paper. Then Mr. Ticket and I received a wedding invitation from Brother/GM M & FSIL L and it suddenly became very clear to me... I need to get cracking on these invitations!!! Their wedding is only 1.5 months before ours! So with that in mind I sat down that night and was DETERMINED to finish the design process. Overall I know they aren't perfect but I'm pretty happy with them.

Not the FINAL version but a pretty close one, minus all the blurred outness (Personal Photo)

Did you put off a project you knew was out of your league? Were you happy when you finally finished it?