Ideas for How to Make Your Own Birthday Invitations
- Craft and hobby stores carry a huge selection of card stock to get you started on your invitations. Whether you opt for plain or patterned designs, it's a good idea to select heavier paper for a classy and durable invite that can stand being handled as you decorate and then mail your creations.
Give your invites a decorative edge with pair of scalloped scissors, or use a shaped paper punch to cut shapes into the invites. For example, if you're having a race-car themed party, draw streets across your invitation with a black marker and punch out little cars on the road.
Card stock also comes in different textures, such as a brushed linen effect or handmade paper featuring bits of recycled newspaper. These textures are ideal for simple invites you can write up with a calligraphy pen or metallic marker. Add your own notions such as an overlay of netting attached with a single pink ribbon at the top for a girl's dress-up birthday party. - Let the lettering of your invitation be the focal point of your design. For example, you can send out newspaper-themed invites featuring "Read all about it!" printed at the top. Use neutral-colored craft paper similar to what primary schools use for children's art classes and print out your invitations with a headline and with time and date information below.
If you're hosting a medieval-themed birthday party, give off-white paper an aged look with tea-stains or burned edges. Write pertinent information with a fountain pen in large cursive lettering.
For a child's birthday party, buy small magnetic boards and colorful alphabet stickers. Stick the letters to the board to spell out party information. Invitees can peel the stickers off and re-use the magnetic board on their fridge later. - Use a plastic tablecloth for writing invitations with a permanent marker.Digital Vision/Digital Vision/Getty Images
If you and your friends are gardening enthusiasts, hand deliver your birthday invites in small terracotta pots with a packet of seeds inside. Write your invitation information on the outside of the pots with colored markers and decorate the pots with colorful hand-drawn flowers or stickers.
For an outdoor cookout birthday, purchase empty plastic ketchup and mustard bottles and an inexpensive red and white checked tablecloth. Cut the tablecloth into napkin-sized squares and write party information on them in bold black lettering. Place invitations inside the condiment bottles and hand-deliver them in small picnic baskets. - Upscale birthday events call for simple, modern invites which are among the most convenient to create on your own. Border plain thick card stock or fine stationary with satin ribbon on all four edges. Tack the ribbon to the corners with a geometric sticker such as a brushed-nickel toned circle or square. Write out invite information in silver or black gel pen.
Opt for paper in shades of purple or red for a more feminine-looking invitation and place a solid-colored sticker in the shape of a lily or iris at the top of the invite. Use a metallic-purple gel pen to write out party information.
