Free modern orange and green DIY wedding invitation {seen in Style Me Pretty}

Here’s my modern orange and green DIY wedding invitation that was seen in the Style Me Pretty feature “Inspiration to Reality: Modern Clementine.”

I designed this unique mod wedding invitation (as well as round guest placecards, address labels, and rectangular dessert table tents — free templates coming soon!) for Style Me Pretty when “our favorite vendors take an inspiration board and turn it into real life, adaptable ideas for you to make your own and use in your wedding.” Our mod orange and green inspiration board was created by fellow Chicagoan Maggie Eisenstat at I Do Love It:

The team’s goal was to design a wedding that was a little 1960s vintage-y yet updated for today, using bold patterns in black and white with accents of clementine orange, grassy green, and lush touches of metallic gold like this inspirational photo:

Maggie said “Thanks to the amazing team that brought my inspiration board to life. I love your interpretation – it’s so very chic! … I also LOVE the invitation! Great great work!”

(And check back – round guest placecards, address labels, and rectangular dessert table tents free templates are coming soon!)

WANNA MAKE IT? Free printable orange and green DIY wedding invitation and supply list –>

Supplies for making my free mod orange and green DIY wedding invitations:

• Kathy’s free modern orange and green DIY wedding invitation printable template – You have two free downloadable options for the free orange and green wedding invitation template. For both, FIRST be sure to download and install the free font — Latin Modern Sans via Font Squirrel — or else they will look wonky…
  • Option 1: PDF Form. Simply download option 1 orange and green wedding invitation template and type into the text fields to change the form. Easy!
  • Option 2: Edit using Adobe Illustrator (which you can buy or download as a free 30-day trial, or contact me for help for a nominal fee). Choose option 2 orange and green wedding invitation template if you want more control over font spacing and sizes or any other changes that can’t be made in Option 1.
• 8 1/2 x 11 Luxe White Cover Paper – 10 Pack – 210g weight (also available in 8 1/2 x 11 Luxe White Cover Paper – 100 Sheet Bulk Packs
• 8 1/2 x 11 Stardream Antique Gold Cover Paper – 10 Pack – 210g weight (also available in 8 1/2 x 11 Stardream Antique Gold Cover Paper – 100 Sheet Bulk Packs (alternatively, you can go with the lighter Shimmer Gold Cover Paper – 10 Pack  or the Shimmer Gold Cover Paper – 100 Sheet Bulk Packs)
• A7 Envelopes – 10 Pack in Clover
• Envelope liner template kit (or to save a TON of time just buy pre-cut A7 envelope liners which come in Shimmer Gold but not Antique Gold)
• Xacto knife, metal ruler and self-healing cutting mat OR paper trimmer
• Paper glue (glue sticks or alternatives)
• Computer and printer

Please post a comment and let me know how this free wedding invitation template works for you. And share your own photos at the MerrimentDesign.com Facebook page, “I made it!” flickr photo gallery or tweet a picture to @merrimentdesign.

How to make modern orange and green DIY wedding invitations:

Assemble your paper and envelopes from Paper Source. I designed this project before they sold pre-cut envelope liners (what a time saver!) so I cut my liners by hand using the envelope liner template kit. But it’s totally worth just purchasing the pre-cut envelope liners as long as they have your desired color.

Download and customize my free modern orange and green wedding invitation printable template. You have two free downloadable options for the free orange and green wedding invitation template. For both, FIRST be sure to download and install the free font — Latin Modern Sans via Font Squirrel — or else they will look wonky…

• Option 1: PDF Form. Simply download option 1 orange and green wedding invitation template and type into the text fields to change the form. Easy!
• Option 2: Edit using Adobe Illustrator (which you can buy or download as a free 30-day trial, or contact me for help for a nominal fee). Choose option 2 orange and green wedding invitation template if you want more control over font spacing and sizes or any other changes that can’t be made in Option 1.

Any problems, just contact me if you need help and I can do it for you for a very nominal design fee.

Print the invitation onto Luxe White Cover Paper – and I recommend using a laser printer. You will get two invitations per one sheet of paper. Be sure you buy cover-weight paper because it is thicker and nicer than regular paper.

Using your Xacto knife, metal ruler and self-healing cutting mat OR paper trimmer, cut out the invitations. Line up your metal ruler on the guides on the printable card on top of a self-healing mat. Run your Xacto knife along the ruler to cut out. TIP: Just cut it out from the center rather than cutting the whole strip off so that you can still see the guides as you cut each side. Really and truly do not use scissors – you don’t want your invites to look sloppy.

Again using your Xacto knife, metal ruler and self-healing cutting mat OR paper trimmer, cut out XX” x XX” gold invitation backs from cover weight paper. Glue the invitation front to the invitation backs, centering the invitation fronts to show the gold border.

Line envelopes with gold, either by following the instructions in this video to create custom envelope liners from paper or buy using pre-cut envelope liners. Here’s the antique gold lining and the gold back of the wedding invitation:

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Copyright stuff: You’re more than welcome to use this free project and tutorial for personal use. Contact me for commercial use and etsy sales.