The photographs were taken on two different days, so the lighting and coloring among the three photos didn't quite mesh. Once I converted them to black and white, they looked quite nice together and it was easy to see that a black and white color scheme was the way to go for the rest of the announcement, too.
I sized the image to 4x6 and used a coupon code for 100 free prints from Shutterfly (kindly gifted by my sweet friend Melanie) to have the announcements printed.
With many, although not all, of the announcements I also included a short hand-written note. For these, I used a 3x4 Project Life Grid Card
, a stamp of my own design and a pretty paper clip to attach the two. (I wrote the notes on the reverse side.)
, a stamp of my own design and a pretty paper clip to attach the two. (I wrote the notes on the reverse side.)
I'm not sure what went wrong, but when I had the photos printed, the design got pushed off center a bit, resulting in cut-off text along the right side. Generally, when I do big projects like this, I order my prints through Walmart and only print one as a "tester" before printing the rest of the batch. Since I was ordering this set through Shutterfly and didn't want to pay for shipping twice, I just went for it. Obviously, a tester would have been helpful, in this case.
Oh, well. Although I find the misalignment endlessly annoying, I decided to just go with it, rather than reprint the announcements. In any case, I am pretty sure that the misalignment bothers me much more than any of the announcement recipients.
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