Do-it-yourself card-invitation for a child's birthday quickly and inexpensively
Hi all.
What will you need?
1. A package of colored cardboard of your choice - (1 sheet = 2 postcards)
2. Computer with printer and paper (preferably)
3. Glue stick
4. Pencil
5. Ruler
6. Scissors (sharp and handy)
7. Hole punch simple
8. Figured hole punch (optional)
9. Different tapes to choose from
As usual, on the eve of a birthday or any other holiday, we face a lot of questions about the design of the holiday, the number of guests, the venue of the holiday, the food that will decorate the holiday table, various competitions at the holiday or their absence, and much more. friend.
Since my daughter's first birthday is coming soon, I started reading different ideas about the celebration and digging in online stores in search of different decorations for the room, decorations and utensils for table setting, as well as invitation cards for the holiday. I wanted to perpetuate this event in the memory of relatives and friends with a small postcard.
Unfortunately, the choice in the stores did not impress me. Really, such a rarity - wishing to buy invitations to the birthday. The cheapest ones I found were $15. a piece, it's not expensive, but they did not look original at all. If you want original and handmade, then pay from 100 rubles or more per piece. Somehow it turns out not at all economically, given the fact that about 15 people are planned for guests.
I came to the conclusion that I needed to see how to make postcards by hand, but I didn’t find anything particularly sensible and quick.
Decided to take a chance. I went to Detsky Mir and bought a package of cardboard there, which cost a little over 100 rubles.
I chose holographic cardboard because it looks more festive than ordinary single-sided colored cardboard.
I started thinking about what to do with it. Having looked at the dimensions of the sheets on the package, I decided to first draw a couple of squares. Since the width of the sheet is 21 cm, I drew 2 squares 10.5x10.5 cm. I cut them out and began to think further. I knew for sure that I wanted to stick a round inscription-invitation on the postcard, which ended up being about 5 cm in diameter. And, apparently, thanks to the holographic star pattern, I got the idea to draw an uneven star on the back of the square with a ruler and a pencil.
In order for the inscription to fit exactly on the asterisk, you can initially circle it in the middle of the square with a pencil. After we have finished drawing, we cut out the resulting star and glue the inscription-invitation on the front side.
Then I took a hole punch and made a hole on one of the rays of the star, into which I inserted a ribbon and tied a bow out of it. To be honest, at first I wanted to finish on this, but then I applied the resulting beauty to another cardboard, I realized that I really needed to make a postcard after all. Therefore, I cut out all the same squares 10.5x10.5 cm, only of a different color and glued the stars onto the squares.
But even this was not enough for me. I decided that postcards were more boring than they could be and began to use the same hole punch for decorations. Only the hole puncher used not a simple round one, but a heart-shaped hole puncher. I ordered it on Aliexpress for 25 rubles at a discount. As it turned out, for the same amount and without waiting, such punchers are sold in the Fix Price store, 2 pcs per pack. By the way, they come in different shapes, so you can buy a leg puncher or a note puncher and many others.
In order not to waste good pieces of cardboard, I began to use scraps from the stars for the hole puncher, which would have gone to the trash anyway.
In the photo you also see an ordinary hole punch. But in fact, I thought of it at the end. If you fold 4 hearts with a corner in the center and glue a circle on top to the center, you get a flower.
Well, and finally, I needed to add a signature that did not fit on my invitation itself. I had to print separately and stick on the edge of the postcard. In general, here is the result of my efforts:
In total, 14 such invitations are obtained from 7 sheets of cardboard. I only needed 13 to date. Here are 9 of them:
From our sheets of cardboard, 7 strips of 21x8.5 cm remained. I also used them for the holiday. Dividing them in half, I got rectangular cards 10.5x8.5 cm.
I spied on the Internet the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Guest Questionnaire for the holiday. Since I did not like all the questions, I replaced a couple of questions with my own.
On rectangular cards, we round the corners (I printed out on the computer a figure of the same size with rounded corners and outlined it on the back so that everything was even and the same.
I printed the questionnaire itself in the size of 7x9 cm, also with rounded corners. Then I glued it in the middle of our card.
To decorate the questionnaire, I used all the same hearts and circles punched out with hole punches from scraps of cardboard. As a result, such nice little profiles were obtained, which will remain for all of us for a long time.
Thank you all for your attention and I hope that my idea at least someone will come in handy
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