How to Make Your Own Invitations and Cards

Here’s some bonus info: Tips on how to make your own invitations and cards!

This site is focused on showing you invitation ideas and card ideas, but we know you might be interested in some DIY projects, so we’ve put together some awesome tips for creating invitations.

Learn how to design, choose materials and assemble your projects so that they’re creative, beautiful and exactly what you want!

Even if you want to have your invitations and cards made for you, these pages will help you to pinpoint the concept, material choices and final look that your creations will have.

Make Your Own Invitations – Coming Up With Your Concept

When you’re making cards and invitations there are some basic guidelines you can use to help choose the perfect combinations that make up the finished piece.

There are some questions you should answer.

1. Who is the card/invitation for?

Friend
Family Member
Co-worker
Adult
Child

Party
Birth of a Child
Anniversary
Holiday
Wedding
Graduation

3. What’s the mood you’re going for?

Festive
Congratulatory
Comical
Romantic
Sympathetic

4. What is the taste and style preference of the person the card is for?

Sophisticated
Rustic
Traditional
Shabby-Chic
Themed

Once you’ve answered these questions you can move on the next step which is to think about images and symbols that relate to and describe the holiday, event or person you’re giving the card to.

Putting these concepts together will help you choose the different elements that will go into your finished invitation or card. You can even use the same final concept to make your both your cards and invitations; you’ll just need to tailor the messages to suit each one.

When you’re ready to go with your favorite concept, you can dive right into learning the DIY card making techniques.

Make Your Own Invitations – Tips for Do It Yourself Invitations

Find out more about...

• Invitation and Card Making Supplies
• How to Choose Invitation Stock Paper
• Invitation Layout Designs
• Selecting Your Card and Invitation Text and Font
• Invitation Wording Suggestions and Ideas
• How to Print Invitations
• Embellishment Ideas for Cards and Invitations

Use colorful pages, downloadable images, pictures of your family members and friends, news paper clippings, wrapping tissue, brown paper bags fishing wire and lots of other things.

For high quality images, you can use one of the many stock photo websites like istockphoto.com.

Inspiration comes from the simplest places and can make your cards and invitations outstanding!

Take some time to make sketches of the concept you’re going for…and remember to look around this site at cards and invitations you can use for ideas!

Get special hints, tips and ideas to help you...

• Make Wedding Invitations
• Make Birthday Invitations
• Make Party invitations
For simple cards and invitations you can use free printables. They make life easy…all you have to do is load your paper and press print!

If you have the time and the motivation you can spend a few extra minutes and come up with a one of a kind design to make your own invitations and cards.




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