Alice in Wonderland Party: Invitations

Even if you are not crafty, you can make invitations like I made for my daughter's Alice in Wonderland Party.  I used our computer and printer, regular cardstock, regular typing paper, stickers and basic scrapbooking supplies to make them. If you can cut with scissors and a paper cutter, and use glue or double sided tape, then you have the skill set needed for these simple but festive invites. Since there was alot of information I needed to be able to give the parents in this invite due to the venue (ice skating rink), I opted to make a book style invite with three pages.

The first page was the intro printed out on a regular 8.5 x 11 piece of cardstock. I used my paper cutter to cut the page down to a 5 x 7 size. One 1.5 inch strip of a patterned paper (from my scrapbook stash) was put along the bottom with double stick tape. An Alice in wonderland sticker, a crown and a paper crafting flower with a red velvet brad center completed the first page.  So that I could maximize my sticker packet usage; all the invites featured different AinW stickers on the first page. Not one sticker in the pack went to waste.

"By Royal Decree, you are invited to join us in a skating Wonderland"...

The second page was the party basics (date, time place) printed out on regular paper and then adhered to a 5 x 7 piece of cardstock. I used a piece of red paper cut with a scallop edge to go underneath. A ruby red sticker gemstone accented the top of page two.  Page three offered all the info that I felt the parents would need to know (how cold the rink would be, what to bring/wear, how long the ice skating would be, sibling policy etc). 

I love how page three said "Per Queen's Order" at the top.  The playing cards were from a printed 12 x 12 sheet of scrapbook paper that was cards all over. I cut out 38 of the cards so that each invitation's third page could have a red and a black card stick out out as the bottom layer.  Scrapbook beads gave the top a little bling.

The three pages were quickly put together with a small point hole punch (to make the initial hole) and a brad. Super easy. This allowed the invitation to fold up together as one 5 x 7 "booklet" and then fan out as shown, to share all the information.  Since these were bumpy due to the embellishments, the ones needing mailed were an additional .30 each to mail.

GREEN TIP:  I am not a fan of doing email invitations, although they are great for the environment, (and a wonderful timesaver). So since we did not do email invites, I "greened' (and decreased cost of) this process as much as possible by

• hand delivering the invitations that I could
• using as many scrapbooking supplies I already had in their design and execution
• Making all the invitations coordinate but NOT be identical so that no purchased paper or embellishments went to waste.

I am told the invitations were a big hit, with most of the party guests electing to keep them as an additional souvenir of the party to come.  If you are ever papercrafting and hit a snag or need an idea for an easy invite...please contact me! I love to share ideas.

Blessings, (and don't forget I am unable to read or reply to comments until we are back from holiday in another week)...