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Baby Shower Invitations

I’m hosting my friend April’s baby shower next weekend, and although I’m dying to share the details as we plan them, I don’t want to spoil it! :)

Here are the invitations I made and sent out a few weeks ago… designed in photoshop, printed one side on heavy paper and the other on a shiny thin paper, and sandwiched together over a popsicle stick using a xyron label maker. We’re having an ice cream party!

Inspiration for the invitation from the Imprintables Blog.

Red and Cyan Baby Shower Invitations

Yep, another friend having a baby. Fun for me because I got to do another round of cute baby shower invitations. I’m planning the shower with a friend, and couldn’t help but use a graphic of an umbrella {Not that it hasn’t been done before, but I thought it would be fun}. I drew an outline of an umbrella in Photoshop, and purchased different patterns from istockphoto to place in each part of the umbrella. The shower’s guest of honor, Nicki, is a great quilter and scrapbooker, so I knew this would capture her style. Plus who doesn’t like the throwback feel of red and cyan?

Check out the wording… probably my favorite part of creating invitations!

After finishing up the design in Illustrator, I printed them out, four to a page. I used my newly acquired Xyron to adhere them to the cardstock. However, my newest LOVE is Avery’s 8.5″x11″ labels. I have found a zillion uses for these things, and they are such good quality. If you don’t have a Xyron, I would recommend using these labels to adhere invitations to card stock. The paper stock and envelopes I used were on clearance from Paper Source – they have TONS of great colors and patterns at their stores, and I rounded the corners of the paper with my corner punch. And lastly, I used that same umbrella graphic and the Avery Labels to make everyone’s address labels on the front of the envelope.

LOVE making invitations…

Birdie Baby Shower Invitations

My friend and I are throwing a baby shower for our friend Shannon. We decided on a little birdie theme for her baby boy. After having seen these adorable invitations from Jordan Ferney, I HAD to make them. These are the birdie invitations I made:

Since it was birdie themed, my sister, mom and I came up with these little wording changes:

Please help us get {mother}’s nest ready, baby {last name} is ready to hatch! -and-
A little birdie told us she was registered at…

I used:

1. All white jordan almonds for the filler candy because they look like little birdie eggs. I found these at Wal-Mart in the wedding section.
2. A Martha Stewart birdie hole punch to show some negative space on the outer label.
3. 8 1/2″ x 11″ full-size Avery labels, and printed 5 name bands per sheet. I found these at Office Depot.
4. Adobe Illustrator to layout the design.
5. A corner punch to round the edges. I bought this at a craft store.
6. Istock to buy the bird nest illustration and Adobe Photoshop to edit it.

And LASTLY, I now have 25 extra plain kraft jewelry boxes that I’ll sell for $12 if anyone wants to take this project on themselves!