How to Design a Unique Birthday Invitation

Do you want to design your own birthday invitations? This quick and easy step by step guide will give you the tools to do just that!

Things You'll Need

• birthday card stock paper
• birthday design ideas
• facts of the birthday
• envelopes
• stamps
• artwork
• computer
• design program

Instructions

1. 

   To design your own birthday invitations, gather the birthday details, such as name, date, time, & location.

2. Decide if you want the invitation to be bi-fold, tri-fold, or quarter fold. Or perhaps you want to use a full sheet of paper.

3. Gather your supplies, birthday card stock paper, envelopes, and stamps.

4. Research and decide what artwork you would like on your invitations. Some examples are birthday cake, presents, ribbons, balloons, a picture of the birthday person, etc.

5. Research and decide what wording you will use on your invitations. Do you want formal, traditional, unique, etc.? Great places to look are at invitation stores or on the web. Perhaps you might want to write a poem or rhyme invitation.

6. Now that you have the artwork and wording, draw/sketch a draft invitation prior to working with the parts on your computer. Once you have a design you like, you can put the pieces together on your computer.

7. Print a test invitation. Fix any errors and reprint. Once the invitation is perfect, print the number you need.

Tips & Warnings

• Ask your friends for ideas.

• Experiment with more than one format.

• If you use artwork that you found online, make sure its not copyrighted or get permission to use it first.

• If you are like me, make sure you have plenty of ink for your computer. I usually have to print several test pages before I get to print the final product.