For Elliott’s 1st Birthday we spent almost $80 on her invitations! Eighty Dollars! Wow…..that was ridiculous! I ordered them from Polka Dot Design and had THEM print them off for me! Duh! Never again!
For her 2nd birthday I ordered the invites from Polka Dot Design again, but printed them my damn self! Still, I spent too much.
I vowed never to do that again and just make them myself based on the party theme. BIG SAVINGS and fun too!
Holden is turing 3 next month and I’ve been on the hunt for some cheapo blank note cards that I can feed into our printer. Voila! At Michael’s I found a couple packages in the $1 section that were marked down to 3/$1 – 33 cents each for 8 cards! With my 20% off coupon, I got them for 26 cents a pack!
I picked up some outer space stickers ($1 bin @ Target) to go with the theme for embellishing the inside, wrote up the wording, formatted it, downloaded a few free fonts, and printed them off. Seriously, I will never buy fancy schmancy invites again.
Here’s the front of the cards:
No, they’re not very outer spacey, but I liked that they were blue…going with blue & silver color scheme.
Here are the envelopes that I doctored up with some rubber stamps:
Easy peasy!
Here is the inside of the invite:
It’ll cost me over 7 times more to mail them than it did to make them!
Amy – for Sophie’s 2nd birthday invite. I took a photo of her standing infront of her growth chart in her room and uploaded to Costco.com. Costco has all these borders that you can have printed on the photos for no extra charge. So I printed the photos w/ border (13-cents each). Then on my PC, I typed up “Look How I’ve Grown” and put the information there in a fun Word font and printed with purple ink. I think stuck them on the back of the photos. People LOVED them! And I only paid 13-cents for the photos and the stams.