DIY Success!

I worked with a wonderful seller on Etsy who designed these water bottle labels for us. Our engagment party was comming up and I wanted to be able to hand these out to our guest. Since we would be purchasing the water for the party anyways they would also be serving double duty as our STD's! They were a hit!

Here is how we put them together:

Since I am in no way computer savy, I convo'ed the Etsy seller who had designed out electronic STD's to come up with a water bottle label design. She hadn't done anything like this before so I googled a really basic water bottle template and emailed her with our label measurements. She came up with an awesome design and was able to fit 3 labels across on one 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper.

I reaserached a bit and found that you couldn't print these on a laser jet printer (the ink would run) and premade waterproof labels were way too expensive (.75 each! really?!) Luckly I was able to print these out using my office color copier (which also happened to be the best method, not to mention most cost effective :P ) which worked out perfectly since the ink on a color copy won't run when submerged.

In order to give it a finished look I "laminated" each label using clear shipping tape and cut out each one using a paper cutter. After removing the original label I wrapped each label around the bottle and used double stick tape to secure the end.

I never considered myself a DIY kinda girl- I always found it so much easier to buy things pre-made, but these were super easy to do and I was soOOoo happy with the finished product.

Even if you're not lucky enough to have access to a free color copier (and a paper cutter!) it would still be most cost effective to use a color copier to print your labels. You can get at least 3-4 labels on a page and use the color copier from your local Kinko's/Staples store for less than a $1 copy and cut them there yourself as well. Has anybody else used "creative" ways to cut cost on your DIY budget? Please share!