Save-the-date card

Highly effective decoration

Before an actual invitation is given to guests, it’s usual to send friends and relatives a save-the-date card. By doing this, everyone is given plenty of advance notice, and the date can be added to diaries long before details of the celebration have been finalised. A really neat idea is to design the card to match the event in question. The edding 1340 brush pen comes in an extensive range of colours, enabling you to be creative for any occasion. Thanks to the gleaming metallic colours, you can magic up unique effects and create cards with the wow factor on both light-coloured paper and dark or coloured card simply by combining classic shades such as black, grey and light orange with gold or other metallic shades.

Categories: Craft your own cards
Hand lettering
Products: Fibre and felt pens
Materials: Paper, carton and cardboard
Difficulty: Easy peasy
Downloads: Images (ZIP)

Step-by-step

Step 1

First, stick a piece of brown wrapping paper onto the lower section of your card. It will look more interesting if, rather than simply cut the edge of the paper in a straight line, you tear it instead. You can design the card freehand or by using our template. Print out the template. Enlarge or reduce it to the right size to match your card. Use carbon paper to transfer the template onto the card with ease using a pencil.

Step 2

Next, go over the lettering in your favourite shade before colouring in the details and filling in larger areas. The soft brush tip will lend a personal, unique feel to any lettering. In our example, we’ve used light orange, silver grey, black and gold, all of which are also available in a handy set of four. The gold-coloured ink is opaque and can be painted over the other shades effortlessly.