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Materials needed:

  • 4” x 5¼” opal text or cover weight paper—Yours Truly (two per 8½” x 11” sheet)
  • A2 antique gold flat note—Yours Truly
  • VersaMark ink
  • Gold embossing powder
  • Dry adhesive, such as a tape runner

Suggested tools:

  • Elegant Flourishes clear stamp set—Autumn Leaves
  • Clear acrylic block or stamp press (to use with clear stamp)
  • Heat gun
  • Paper trimmer
  • Pencil
  • Ruler

Instructions:

  1. Begin with a vertical (portrait) letter-sized document in a word-processing program. Adjust margins to 1½” on all sides. You will be able to fit two invitations worth of text in the space, one at the top and one at the bottom. Type and format text, leaving space for stamp.
  2. Print text on opal paper and trim on all sides to create two 4” x 5¼” pieces.
  3. Stamp images on opal paper. Sprinkle with embossing powder, tapping off excess. Heat with heat gun until image appears shiny and raised.
  4. Adhere opal paper to gold flat note.

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