How to Create Free Graduation Invitations Online

Create graduation invitations with a personal touch online.

Create online graduation invitations from free invitation sites. If you want to send graduation invitations with your personal flair, so many options await you online. Create your own invitation by selecting backgrounds, images, font and graduation invitation text.

Things You'll Need

• Word processing program
• Invitation paper
• Printer
• Color ink

Instructions

1. 

   Let the Internet help you make free graduation invitations.

   Select a website that offers free graduation invitations that appeal to you and the graduate. Sites, such as Graduation Invitations Graduation Party.com, include all of the elements to create a perfect graduation invitation.

2. 

   Select graduation images for your invitations.

   Browse samples for an invitation template you like. Suitable graduation graphics include images of graduation caps, diploma scrolls and school images.

3. 

   Use a word processing program to create graduation invitations.

   Copy and paste the invitation image you decide to use from the site to your local word processor, such as Microsoft Word. To copy the image, place your mouse over the image, right-click and select "Save image." Open a blank document in Word. Click on the "Paste" icon at the top of your screen or right-click the mouse and select "Paste." The image will appear in the document.

4. 

   Personalize graduation invitations using text boxes.

   Save your invitation document to a file you can easily find. Personalize the invitations by inserting text onto the saved image. If, for example, you use MS Word 2007, open the "Insert" pane from the top left of your document. Click on "Text Box." Place your mouse over the text box, push the left mouse button and drag the box to any area you want to personalize. Size the box to fit the space on the invitation. Select font type, color and size from the "Home" area of Word. Type in the desired text. Make sure the text box fits in the area you placed it. Save your work.

5. 

   Print graduation invitations on the paper of your choice.

   Print your invitations. Place the paper you chose in the printer. Print a test page to check for the invitation placement on the paper. If you need to resize the invitation on the page, click anywhere inside the image and drag the image from any corner. Do not resize from the sides, top or bottom of the image. This will distort the image.

Tips & Warnings

• Some sites offer graduation invitation templates you can download instead of copying and pasting. Make changes into the downloaded template, save and print.

References

• Graduation Invitations Graduation Party: Free Printable Graduation Invitations

Resources

• Internet Family Fun: Downloadable Invitation (Example)