Fact: I love Christmas time.
Fact: My house is a perfect Christmas house.
Fact: I like to have fun and be goofy.
Fact: It's Tacky Christmas Sweater Party time!
Invitations are an easy way to spend extra creativity. Also, they're necessary for a part-ay. There are some important things to remember when crafting your invitations.
1) Crafting invitations is not cheaper than making them (unless you use what you already have...in which case they're free!). Well, its not cheaper than the invitations I would buy (but I'm a cheap-o with paper products), but it may be cheaper than custom ordered invites.
2) Buy on sale. Buy on clearance. Or with a coupon. Basically never pay full price for your paper or craftiness supplies. Most stores have email coupons, newspaper coupons, online coupons, and in-store coupons. Use them.
3) Plan ahead. I always plan my cards out in powerpoint or paint.net so I know what they'll look like, print like, and what supplies I need.
These are last year's invites. I love that each one is different.
- The font I used was Bodie MF Holly found here.
- First, I printed on the white card stock in green and red.
- Second, I matted the invite on red or green card stock.
- Third, I cut out and glued my sweaters from glitter paper in red, green, and silver.
- Finally, I glued on my embellishments and sequins to create a truly tacky sweater.
I hope everyone is having a great holiday season!
