Monograms

I'm buying my paper for my invitations from Cards and Pockets. They also sale the 2x2 monograms for the belly bands. I was going to buy them, but someone reminded me that I could do them myself! So, I did just that! The ones I wanted from CP are $2.99 for 15 2x2 monograms. I was actually okay with that. {Well, I picked a different design so it was 20 for $2.99.} I went on Publisher and created a monogram very similar to the one on CP.
CPs:

Mine:

{Sorry it's blurry, don't feel like trying to correct it.}

So, I went to Michael's yesterday with a 50% off coupon from Retail Me Not and bought a 50 pk of card stock for $2.15. That's less than I would have paid for 15 monograms from CP.

The one issue I had was the fact that the card stock doesn't exactly match the paper on the inside of the invitation! I really don't feel like searching for paper, and I refuse to pay CP $5.00 for 25 sheets of card stock. So, I'm at the point where I don't really care if it matches exactly. I'm sure I'm the only one that will really notice that. So, today, I will be printing out the monograms and maybe cutting them later. I'm going to do everything separate.

Also on my to-do list for the day is finding boxes for my card box and buying the envelopes for my STDs that came in day before yesterday. And I'll be addressing envelopes tomorrow and hopefully mailing out by Tuesday! Stay tuned!