See the photos, feel my pain

Here’s visual evidence of the carnage I was talking about in my last post about Phase 1 of my Do-It-Yourself wedding invitation project: cutting the cardstock.

Here’s my pretty paper and ribbon, oh so pearly and innocent and carefree (pre-disaster).

Here is Mr Purple executing his so-called “brilliant” cutting technique – putting the ruler down on a stack of 50 sheets of cardstock and running the X-Acto knife down the edge over and over and over, because he thinks cutting them one by one “is for suckers”…

(I don’t have the audio track to go with these images but imagine a bunch of shrieks and gasps and OHMYGODWHATAREYOUDOING?!?!?!-s.)

And here is the result of Mr Purple’s “brilliance” (post-disaster):

The problem with dimensions is pretty obvious. But what’s worse – and though it’s hard to see, trust me when I say it’s terrible – is that the edges of that dark purple paper are not just the wrong measurement, but are as wobbly as Miss Purple after four glasses of wine.

I also have one image of Mr Purple’s maniacal grin but I promised him I wouldn’t post it and… well, let’s just say I don’t want to cross him when there are X-Acto knives in the vicinity. (I’m kidding.)