If you have been following along with Mom Mart then you know that I am
expecting baby number three in June and it will be a little girl. I am very
excited about this. I am even more excited because my little girl will have a
little baby girl cousin her own age to grow up with too.
These DIY Baby Shower invitations turned out pretty well and I have enough scrapbook paper left over to do corresponding party favors and decorations.
I am going to be an aunt again! My sister-in-law Krystal is expecting a
little girl {her 1st baby} in April and I will be co-hosting her
baby shower. This means I get to make baby shower invitations and plan
decorations and come up with baby shower games and … oh this list could go on
forever! Needless to say, I love planning showers.
So for the next couple of weeks I will be sharing with you my baby shower
invitation creations, the baby shower decorations, some baby shower games,
party planning essentials, and pretty much everything I can think of baby
shower related!
To kick this off and get into the baby shower mood I will share with you
my modern take on a baby shower invitation for a baby girl. My sister-in-law
loves the purple so I am thinking that we will be all about the purple too!
After a trip to my local scrapbooking store I hit pay dirt and found a great chevron patterned paper with purple and teal and matching solid paper as well. It was exactly what I was looking for! It’s modern and feminine {but not too feminine} and fun – at least I think so. I borrowed my other sister-in-law’s Cricut cartridge so that I could cut out my own flowers in the matching paper.
After a trip to my local scrapbooking store I hit pay dirt and found a great chevron patterned paper with purple and teal and matching solid paper as well. It was exactly what I was looking for! It’s modern and feminine {but not too feminine} and fun – at least I think so. I borrowed my other sister-in-law’s Cricut cartridge so that I could cut out my own flowers in the matching paper.
I printed off the invitations on card stock and cut the cards in half. I like
to buy the NOTECARDS value pack that come with corresponding envelopes – this takes
a lot less work and makes creating cards super easy. Then I cut the
scrapbooking paper to size and started gluing the paper onto the unprinted side
of the card. I cut out violet flowers from the Cricut machine using the
Storybook cartridge and pasted those on the printed side of the card {in the
image I added a flower design that can be printed right onto the card – If I
were to do this again I would have printed the flower design instead of cutting
out the flowers. That was a lot more work than necessary!
These DIY Baby Shower invitations turned out pretty well and I have enough scrapbook paper left over to do corresponding party favors and decorations.
The font used for the cards are Lobster Two and Champagne & Limousines. I think
these fonts complement each other beautifully and were easy to work with as far
as size manipulation was concerned.
What
do you think?
