We're getting ready for my daughters 8th birthday in a couple weeks and thought I'd share the custom invitation I made for her. I was inspired by THIS invitation and loved how ours turned out.
As cute as the inspiration was I decided to go the DIY route not only to save money but now I can do matching menus, place cards, etc.
I made the invitations in Silhouette Studio. Yes, it is the software I use with my Silhouette machine, but anyone can download it for free HERE. I love this program. It's so easy to use, I basically taught myself by pushing all the buttons until I understood what I was doing. All the fonts on you computer will automatically be transferred to the program and any additional images you want can be downloaded for 99¢ a piece. I downloaded the background, flowers, and tea cups for this project, spending a total of $4.
Another great tip if you want to print at home, is to print in the photo paper setting. It will give you a crisper and brighter image.
I've had so much fun searching with my daughter for the perfect tea cups and accessories. Hopefully it will all come out as planned.
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These look great! I spent hours trying to make my daughters recent invitations in the silhouette program. I tallied up my time and the cheap DIY's with free silhouette downloads ended up costing me around $115 each to make! But I learned a lot in the process. Like checking the print all lines box. That one threw me for a loop!
This is so lovely! One of my favorite memories as a little girl is the tea party my mother threw for my sister and I. I hope it turned out well!
too precious!
i cannot wait until my niece is old enough to have tea parties with me. hope it goes well! (i was a rambunctious eight year old, well, starting to mellow out, so breakable tea cups was not an option....)
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Darling!
Thanks for all the supper cute ideas on your fascinator. My daughter..soon to be 8 as well was overlooking and loved them. We have looked all over for something like the butterflies you used with no luck. Was it a chain store that you bought them at by chance?
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