Berry Nice Party Invitations

  My daughter is nuts for Strawberry Shortcake.  She comes by it honestly; she was one of my favorite childhood characters also.  I am still nuts for strawberries, and LOVE to use them in my crafting and décor.  The invitations were made out of printable images available from Strawberry Shortcake’s website, and leftovers from around the craft room.

If your kid has a favorite character you should check out their website to find printable crafts, activities, and coloring pages featuring them.  Disney has great ones for almost all of their characters especially the one and only Mickey, and Nick Jr. covers all things Dora and Diego.  Hub is the home of My Little Pony, and our featured gal today.  If you don’t know the website for the character, just Google the character’s name.  I found my Strawberry printables here:  http://www.agkidzone.com/activities/

  There ARE printable party invitations available, but of course I can’t just print them off and go.  I have a crafty reputation to live up to!  I’ve got to make them more special than that.  After all, you only have a third birthday once.  I am also using an image from the printable Valentine’s cards I found on the website for the front of the invitation.  Take advantage of online printables for the kids in your life.  There are tons of free ones available (yes FREE!).  My daughter loves to watch something featuring Minnie or a favorite princess come out of the printer just for her to color or cut shapes with her safety scissors.  They also make a great addition to a kids goody bag (print a coloring or activity page on cardstock and roll it up treasure map style, tie them up with a theme coordinated ribbon, even attach a fun marker or small pack of crayons.)  Set lots of sheets out with boxes of crayons at a kids’ party for an easy activity station.   I promise these exist for just about any theme.

  The front of this card was made by trimming green cardstock to a greeting card size and attaching it to the card using a glue stick.  The pink decorative paper was trimmed to about half of the height of the card, I punched a hole in the corner using a strawberry shaped decorative punch, the layered the pink paper on top of the green so the green would peak out.  The middle border was done by layering two pre-made adhesive backed glitter tapes by recollections, a solid green, and a red flower pattern.  Remember the green from the Sweet Pea scrapbook layout?  Love this product!

 

  I printed my Strawberry Shortcake heart images on cardstock, so they would be more substantial than plain copy paper.  They were cut out to shape and also matted on green cardstock.  They were attached to the front of the card using foam adhesive to give them that extra little pop of dimension.  The phrase printed on the card I simply printed from a Microsoft word document in a coordinating color and font.  It was also matted on green cardstock and mounted on the card using the foam adhesive squares.

  The inside of the cards is the plain old printable invitation, printed on cardstock and adhered to the center of the card using a glue stick.

  I thought this card needed to feel special from the minute you got it, so I also did a couple things to cutesy up the envelope.  Again using the strawberry punch I punched a hole in the center of the flap and glue a small piece of pink decorative paper underneath so the color would peak out. 

 

I also added a flashy strip of the glitter roll tape.

How cute is that?!

Super cute and easy enough to make 10 cards and envelopes in a two short sittings!  Character printables do all the hard work in this card for me!  Thanks Strawberry!