Honeybees and Parties

Did you know? “Melissa” is Greek for “honeybee.”

You know that movie Groundhog Day with Bill Murray, where he gets stuck in a repeating loop and every day is the same? That is a little like how I felt last week. Every day I’d get up, work, eat and print. And print, and print, and print. It took me a week to finish all these, but I successfully printed 50 baby shower invitations for my sister’s upcoming showers.

Floating in a sea of baby shower invitations.

I’m actually hosting two showers for her, one for family and one for all her friends. But it was definitely a lot of printing. I’ve done much smaller print runs on my Gocco before, but this was a lot. And after every step I needed to let the cards dry before moving on.

So what did I do? Well, for the front I used two older prints I had and combined them to create the image you see here. Then I custom printed two different insides, one for each shower. Then, as some extra cuteness, I printed a little message on the bottom of the back of each card in a tiny font (just like real greeting cards do). And to top it all off, I printed more grass onto the envelopes and hand addressed all 50. A week’s worth of work but so worth it when I saw the final product.

I hope all the guests like them, because I put a lot into these. And I can’t wait to start planning the rest of the details for the shower. I’m thinking sunflowers and pink roses. Because babies and parties, two very excellent things. But when combined? Pure magic.

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