How to Make Glow in the Dark Invitations
Glow-in-the-dark items appeal to kids and to kids cleverly disguised as adults. Make your invitations into an entertaining experience by employing glow in the dark elements. Unleash your creativity on customized glow-in-the-dark invitations to get your guests in the mood for the festivities to come. Glow in the dark invitations add a playful mood to Halloween, birthdays and even more traditional events such as an anniversary or engagement party. Take your pick of different ways to add glow-in-the-dark pizzazz to your invitations and make works of art that your guests will talk about.
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Things You'll Need
- Pencil
- Letter-size paper
- Glow-in-the-dark stickers
- Glow-in-the-dark paint
- Glow-in-the-dark pen
- Silver or gold metallic pen
- Blank cards from a stationery supplier---black makes a good background for glow-in-the-dark decorations
- Matching blank envelopes
- Ruler
Instructions
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Select a theme for the glow-in-the-dark invitations. For example, choose glow-in-the-dark planets and stars for birthday invitations or glow-in-the-dark monsters for Halloween.
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Set out the supplies for the invitations.
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Fold a piece of paper in half so that the top edge is even with the bottom edge. Fold the piece of paper in half again, this time so that the side edge meets the other side edge. This forms a practice card.
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Look over the stickers and choose how you want to use them. For example, design an invitation with five planets at different levels on the front of the invitation with seven stars above the planets.
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Place a ruler on inside page of the glow-in-the-dark invitation and draw light pencil lines for the invitation text. For example, make four lines for the sample text in Step 6.
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Write the invitation's text below the glow-in-the-dark decorations in pencil:
You're invited to David Taylor's 8th Birthday Party
At David's house: 2111 Palm Way at Milton Ave.
Saturday, October 5th at 2 PM
RSVP: 555-1234 -
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Make a sample invitation on card stock if you'll have others helping you. Apply the stickers, make the lines for the text and then write the text in glow-in-the-dark ink. Stand the sample invitation in the middle of the table so others have a model to follow.
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Create a lot of glow-in-the-dark invitations by assembling them one step at a time. For example, put the larger stickers on all of them first, next add the smaller stickers, then draw the lines and write the text. Or, give each helper a task and you can pass the invitations along assembly-line style. Get creative with descriptive text about the event, if desired. BellaOnline.org recommends a Star Wars theme birthday invitation with a brief story about the birthday boy. The Disney Family Fun website suggests making wizard theme invitations. Include kids by giving them glow-in-the-dark sticker decorating steps to do.
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Address the invitations on the matching envelopes in silver or gold ink---this shows up well on black.
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Add a glow-in-the-dark sticker and glow-in-the-dark writing to the envelopes, if desired.
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Put the glow-in-the-dark invitations under a bright light for 10 minutes. Turn off the lights and view the glow-in-the-dark effect.
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Tips & Warnings
Include all the necessary information on the invitation; what the event is, the location including the street address and a phone number guests can call to "RSVP" --RSVP an abbreviation of the French words for please respond.
Pick some decorative stamps at the post office to go with your glow-in-the-dark invitations.
With blank invitations, the fold of the card can go on the left-hand side or on the top, depending on how you want the invitation to open.
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- Photo Credit neon glow background image by JoLin from Fotolia.com
