DIY : Baby Shower Invitations

Hello Wanderers!

Truely long time no chat. Life got away with me. Between life, an etsy and trying to find a place in this city it took some time. As of now I am expecting a baby end of May and so excited! I thought I’d share some of my planning that is going into my baby shower, starting with the invitations.

INVITATIONS

I’m going with a wildflower theme mostly because as soon as I saw these invites on Zazzle i knew. So the theme chose me. I’ll link everything I used below.

Invitation link

INSPIRATION

Let’s start with inspiration! I loved this wrapped look in the first photo and I have smaller cards to put with the invitation so it was perfect to use them in this manner. I also wanted some calligraphy, for the names and mailing addresses, and cute stamps that might match my color scheme. Now that I have an idea of what I want I got to purchasing the materials I needed.

MATERIALS

After I finally got everything in, I did quite a bit of research on how to do calligraphy. I shortly learned that it is very hard and it takes a long time to master. BUT I also learned that there is faux calligraphy and how to use my ipad has a lightpad to trace. Now all i needed was a good pen/marker. I went with the Tombow Dual Brush Pen in Rhodamine Red, which came out as a hot pink color. Even though I did buy this before I knew I wasn’t going to be amazing at actual calligraphy, in ended up being perfect and I used the fine tip side.

Another way I wanted to personalize these invitations was a wax seal but didn’t feel like doing it myself so I found adhesive ones on Etsy! I searched around and these beautiful hot pink stork seals caught my eye and fell in love. They have so many gorgeous options for baby showers and more. I will definitely be using them again in the future.

Another key item I needed was the material to wrap around the invites and to hold the two smaller cards in place. I looked for different things such as cotton thread, leather, but found a pack of suede cord from Michaels and the colors just fit great with all the colors in the invitations.

PROCESS

After all was complied and the research was done. I started with addressing the invitations. I knew this would take the longest and it did. I also added the return address on the back flap for some flare. I went into my Canva app and created an envelope size project. It took a while to find a font I liked and could easily manipulate to faux calligraphy. Once I had all the slides with everyone’s names and addresses I locked my screen with the brightness all the way up and started to get to work. Luckily I have white invitations or this would have been more difficult so just keep that in mind if you’d like to try.

Next, I put together all of the parts of the invitations. I wrapped the cord around the invites, tying it to the side and then knotted the mini cards on after. To add a bit more flare I had left over baby’s breath from Valentine’s Day flowers, thanks to the husband, and tucked some of that into the cord too.

Lastly, I stuffed the envelope and sealed with a hot pink stork.