Oh, yeah ... Oh, yeah! It is here ... the Ultimate DIY Invitation Survival Kit!!!! Really excited to be launching this professional DIY Survival Kit. It contains all my top of the line {absolute fav!} products for invitation and papery assembly. These are the very same tools I use in the studio to assemble my papery creations!

I soooo often hear of DIY invitation & papery projects going haywire and brides/party planners/crafty chicks extraordinaire ending up with a complete mess of a papery project. While you are likely trying to save a few bucks by putting your event papery together yourself, my guess is you are still looking for papery that is memorable for all the right reasons. I'm finding, more often than not, that it's due to the substandard products being used during assembly ... and combining that with no instruction from your stationery designer/supplier on how exactly it all fits together = a papertastrophe.

So whether you are ordering your DIY papery from us here at SJD -or- {big sigh} elsewhere, you can find pure self-assembly happiness in our new ToolKit - it's soooo designed to take the edge off your DIY papery project!

What's in the Ultimate DIY Survival Kit?

Tools include: {1} professional adhesive dispenser, {6} rolls of mounting adhesive, {1} tube of crystal glue, {2} crystal glue applicators, {2} ceramic glue & crystal cups and {1} pair of professional ribbon & fabric scissors. Instructions include: {1} ToolBox contents, descriptions & usage, {1} how to professionally mount paper layers, {1} how to professionally mount Swarovski flatback crystals and {1} ribbon style guide.

Use the Ultimate DIY Survival Kit to professionally assemble your save the dates, invitations, announcements, greetings, menus, programs, place cards, escort cards, favor tags and every little papery need for your special event.

Ultimate DIY Invitation Survival Kit

$275.00 plus shipping and 8.25% sales tax for CA residents

Kits ship within 72 hours, delivered in 2-7 business days

Rush processing is available

BUY THE TOOLBOX HERE

Refill Adhesive

$7.70 per roll, plus shipping and 8.25% sales tax for CA residents

One roll equals 36 feet of adhesive, allow roughly 1 roll per mounted layer of 100

Adhesive ships within 72 hours, delivered in 2-7 business days

Rush processing is available

BUY ADHESIVE HERE

Oh, happy day ... let's get assembling!

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What was that? You've got oodles of time, nothing to do, no other planning, details, appointments or phone calls to make? Well, heck yea ... guess I would want to hand-craft my wedding invitations, too! It sure seems like a good idea until you're right in the middle of the fray frantically ordering paper, printing, cutting, assembling and trying to make the 5pm Post Office cut off time, because it wasn't as easy or quick as it all seemed initially.

There are only a few times in your life that you will order custom stationery, and your wedding is one of them. It is the only printed {well, beautifully printed} record of the day you excitedly said, "I DO!". The other icky document you get is the oh, so, official form your witnesses get to sign. Ewww. Unless of course you have your designer create an oh, so, fab document for your witnesses to sign ... that perfectly matches your wedding papery suite. Idea!

Of course, I am soooo beyond biased on this subject because I live and breathe the custom papery biz. To me ... truly, there is nothing like receiving a thoughtful, finely detailed, hand-crafted invitation or greeting in the mail. It's like a shiny little beacon amidst the junk mail, bills and coupons littering the mailbox. Love!

So, I say this ... if you insist on having a {literal} hand in your own wedding papery ... check with your paperies! Most offer design only services, DIY options, full design & assembly options ... they may just not list a whole long sorted tale about every service they perform. Save a little and do some of the manual labor or go all out and pamper yourself with a papery suite fit for a princess.

Remember, a custom papery is not only a supplier of materials & embellishments but a specialist in the art of invitation design and etiquette. And {while I'm thinking of it} an important note: No two paperies are alike ... what is crafted by one persons hand cannot be crafted the same by another's. Ahhhh, so true. {thinking ...}

Now, go forth! Find a papery you love, trust in their proven abilities and play with your wedding papery!

It's a rambl-y kinda day, my friends ...

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