Now that we have materials for our invitations, it’s time to start the work on our pocketfolds. Saturday last week, we worked on our blue cardstock and figured out the most efficient way to cut it.
Pocketfold
Invitation size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Blue
cardstock size per invite: 9 x 17 inches
Below is an illustration of our pocketfold template.
Each sheet of blue cardstock measures 39.75 x 28.5 inches and it should give us six pocketfolds.
As we do the work, I was tasked to do the scoring, while Adrin mastered manual cutting of boards using a hand cutter. After the hand cutter steps were completed, he switched to our cool Fiskars paper trimmer. Hours into the work and one quarter pounder down our gut, I requested to switch tasks since my fingers were already hurting due to the pressure of pushing the scoring blade down the tucks of the board.
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| Adrin doing the scoring |
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| Me doing the trimming |
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| Our invites cover still without pockets |
After working for seven (7) hours, we were able to cut all 15 extra-large boards and reduced them to 90 invite covers. Two were actually scrapped due to our mistakes so we're left with 88 good ones. No need to worry since we only need around 70 pieces.
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| The yet to be completed pocketfolds |
Exhausted and sleepy, we decided to call it a night (or a dawn--haha) and stowed away our invite materials into paper bags. We've yet to cut the tiny flaps needed and actually stick them onto the bigger panel to make make the pockets before we get done with our blue cardstock. Nonetheless, we're happy with what we've accomplished so far. =D
Cheers!
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