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Baby Shower Invites!

15 Oct

My best friend Heather is expecting her first child in February and I’m throwing my first baby shower!  It’s hard to believe that it’s been over 7 years since this photo was taken…

Anyway, I knew I wanted to make the invitations but it took awhile for me to select a theme and actually put my vision down on paper.  The invitations were mailed last week and should have arrived by now so I can go ahead and share them here.  This was probably one of the most labor intensive (no pun intended) projects I’ve taken on but I am really happy with the results!

The shower will be held later this fall and I thought that pumpkins would be a cute theme.  I designed the actual invitation on my Silhouette Cameo and alternated the gold sketch pen and the ratchet blade for the written and cut designs and text.  Then I mounted it onto a piece of gold glitter cardstock and attached that piece to shimmery chocolate brown cardstock that framed the entire invitation.  For the pumpkins I put a piece of double-stick tape onto a piece of cardstock and then sprinkled on Glitter Ritz harvest gold and pumpkin spice microfine glitter and burnished it so that the glitter wouldn’t fall off.  Then I ran the paper through the Big Shot with a pumpkin patch die set from Impression Obsession.  I attached the pumpkins to the invitations and then embellished them with a few espresso sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

The little tags were also created with the Silhouette and attached to the main invitation with a little natural twine.  The tag requests that guests please bring a baby book with a personal message in place of a card to help build the baby’s library.

Finally I heat embossed a pumpkin stamp from the Lawn Fawn So Thankful stamp set onto the front of the envelopes with gold embossing powder and then did a faux calligraphy for the addresses.  One of these days I’ll get around to actually taking a calligraphy course…

So, there are a few more surprises for Heather’s shower but I’ll blog about them after they’re shared with her!

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