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!
