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Invitation and Accent Designs from OneHeart Weddings

So I’m always hunting around the web for different DIY design options. The other day, I happened across a fabulous resource from One Heart Weddings, which offers downloadable DIY designs. Their designs are super compatible to upload as Glövites, and you can print the designs at home if you need some extra paper invites for the older relatives. Plus, there are matching templates for Wedding Programs, Menus and Thank You cards. (as an added bonus, the first 2 downloads are free. yippee!)

I also love that there is a “backgrounds and accents” category with icons and images that are perfect for making Glösite designs.

One Heart Spiraling Flourish

One Heart Spiraling Flourish Invitation and Accent

 

To use a OneHeart Wedding invitation design as a Glövite, take the following steps:

1) Choose any OneHeart invitation design  (I recommend using a portrait sized design) and clicked “personalize online”

2) Edit the text and click “download PDF”

3) To upload into Glö, you’ll need to crop the design and save it as a ,jpg, .gif or png format.

You can either crop the PDF version and then save it as a JPG using a program like paint (PC), paintbrush (mac) or Adobe Photoshop.
OR
You can take a screenshot of the finished design and save it as the correct file type
(Note: Glövite designs work best with the dimensions w: 431 x h: 531 pixels, but the horizontal designs from OneHeart are pretty spot on.)

4) Then, log onto your glosite.com account and go to “Manage Glövite” > edit/create a Glövite and upload the design

To make a matching Glösite design, you can download one of our DIY templates and use a coordinated OneHeart Wedding Accent to make something fabulous.

One Heart 'True Love' Design

One Heart ‘True Love’ Invitation and Accent designs

Inspiration, Spice up your Site

Finding your perfect Glösite background design

You guys know that I go all smiles when I witness your creativity first-hand. This is why I’m always pushing the development team to give you new ways to customize your sites and vites. Last week, we rolled out a new feature that lets you upload and/or customize the background designs and colors on your Glösites. I’ve seen several amazing creations so far – so I know you’re already all over it!

I started thinking…there must be a million and one sites that offer free background patterns. One search for “background pattern designs” totally confirmed my suspiscions. I found everything from libraries filled with thousands of designs to sites that actually let you build your own background. Here are a couple that I thought were worth sharing, but there are a slew more where this came from – so just get searching!

Pattern Cooler lets you choose from a huge number of seamless-pattern designs. These are designs that create a repetitive pattern when tiled. I love the variety they have. They even offer each pattern in multiple colors and variations like this Damask one below.

Another great site is BgPatterns. The best feature here is that you can choose an image to apply, change the image color and choose a background color to boot. How custom is that?!? I love this devil heart icon.

Wedding website background pattern

Another site my web-guru brother pointed out to me is Kaliber10000. I’m totally into this Tartan pattern – any Mackenzie’s in the house?

Have you found any other fab sites? If so, let everyone know with a comment below!