DIY: Scroll Invitations

Here are my scroll invitations I'm having a fairytale theme,,,, I know I know I always thought it was so cliche to have a fairy tale theme too until I was getting married and decided screw that I wanna look like a princess too lol. The invites cost us about $60 to make and they look fantastic if you ask me

First we got parchment paper from officemax for $12 dollars with a coupon normally its $15. Parchment Paper is kind of pricey but compared to what you would actually pay for invitation its a steal. We bought satin ribbon, crown trinkets, and the mini bows from Michael's  with a 25% off your purchase coupon. Also we got dowel wood, rubber cement, and wood glue from Home depot. Your also going to need a hot glue gun

Step 1:
Figure out how long you want the invitations to be ours are a little over 5 1/2 inches you wanna cut the dowel wood to that size and sand down the ends if they look a little rough. This is totally something you can have your future hubby get involved with. Saws and sanding my fiance was all over this one.

Step 2:
Decide how you want the invitations to look. We did ours in Photoshop and created our monogram that were going to use on on the invitations, response cards, programs, and so on. Do a few test prints on regular paper in black and white because once again parchment paper is not cheap and neither is colored ink. Once you have the look right print them off on the parchment paper.  We did two invites per page of parchment paper they measure 4 and 5/8 of an inch

Step 3:
Put wood glue on top of the invitations (the part your going to roll up so that they are scrolls) and roll that part up in the dowel wood hold them down for a few seconds and leave them for at least 30 minutes to make sure they are really dry

Step 4:
Roll them up and decide how tight or loose you want them in the ribbon

Step 5:
Use rubber cement to glue the smaller ribbon on top of the bigger ribbon. Let them dry for a minute or two once their glued and dry you want to cut the fringes around them.

NOTE: You dont want to try and use a hot glue gun to do this because it looks awful the rubber cement makes it look flawless like the ribbon came that way.

Step 6:
Than you want to roll them up and use the rubber cement to seal it. Allow it to dry for a minute or two

Step 7:
Put the invitation in the ribbon holders you just made. The easiest way to do it is to roll the invite up tight and than put them through the ribbon holder.

Step: 8:
Glue the mini ribbon onto the seam of of the invitation ribbon holder with the hot glue gun.

Step 9: Slide the trinket over the ribbon it wont fall off trust me I tried to fling it a million ways.

Step:10: Pour yourself a drink because they are now all done and ready to box up thats one big thing you can now officially check off your checklist

Oh and just in case you were wondering this what our response cards look like