Invitational

I had occasion recently to make some party invitations.  Now, if I'm making 100 invitations, obviously they need to be simple, streamlined and inexpensive.  But, if I need less than a dozen, I have no qualms about getting a little more involved and crafty with it.

So here's what I came up with....

(drumroll please)



An overview



Each invitation is a giant size Almond and Toffee Symphony bar! 

To make them, I carefully cut the paper label off of one and measured it, then opened a word document and created a cell the size of the label.  After I typed in all the party information, I simply printed my text onto the back of 7 sheets of coordinating scrapbook paper (not cardstock). 

Pretty papers!

On my sample invitation I played with different tag options until I finally settled on this one.  I think it turned out pretty cute.  For the white circle I traced a baby food jar lid and for the brown, the base of an ice cream dish from my Mom.

Depending on the colors of the paper, some invitations got a brown backed tag, like this one and some got a peach backed tag.  Scooter helped me decide what colors to use and she picked the brown ribbon.  We also bought some cream colored ribbon, but we decided to save that for the party favors!

And, just so you know, I am aware that several of you didn't get these invitations and here's why - this party is for my sisters and Moms only (and even of those it's only for the ones that live near here).  So please don't feel bad, you're still some of my favorite people! 

Here are a few more pictures, just because I like them...

That top paper is my favorite!