21st Birthday Invitations

Ideas to Make Your Own 21st Birthday Invitations

If there was ever a good occassion to throw an adult birthday party, it's the 21st birthday! And the first theme I think of for any 21st birthday party is COCKTAILS! For many celebrating their 21st, this symbolizes the first they will be allowed alcoholic beverages legally. So many of those celebrating will most likely end up at a bar or tavern for their birthday drink. Not to mention those with their own birthday keg and cocktail parties. :-)

To make your own invitations can be pretty simple if you take it one step at a time, and the result will be a special and one of a kind creation. These 21st birthday invitations I made were super simple to make. I used a rubber stamp to embellish the invitation with little cocktail drinks, and added some color with some good quality brush markers. The result is very cute!

Tools and Materials used to make 21st birthday invitations:

white cardstock

cocktail rubber stamp

black ink pad

colored markers or watercolor brush pens

I started making these invitations by printing out the wording onto some plain white cardstock. I like to place mine two invitations to a sheet so that after printing onto a 8 1/2" by 11" sheet of paper, I can simply cut the sheets down to size and create two invites per single sheet of paper. You can do this pretty simply by using whatever word processing program you have available on your computer. The most simple explanation is to create a box the same size that you desire your invitations to be. Typre your wording within the box and center it as best you can. Repeat this as many times as you can fit it on the page and then print it onto cardstock. Once it is printed you will have not only the text but some guidlelines to cut them to the correct size!

After printing and cutting the invitations, it is time to add some embellishment. I chose to use a wooden rubber stamp set I had on hand. It had 3 or 4 images of little cocktail drink.s Perfect for these 21st birthday invitations! I chose to use a plain black in to imprint the cocktails onto the inivtation. Make sure and use a really good ink. It really does wonders for how well the image imprints onto the card. A good quality ink will make your job a bit easier in the end.
You will want to try and stay somewhat unifor when placing the images. Tis is a bit tricky when using wood mounted stamps. If you can find some clear stamps with a cocktail or beer theme, then by all means use them, It will be so much easier! When using clear stamps you can arrange the images however you see fit onto the clear stamping block. You can then see exactly where you are stamping as well since you can see through not only the stamp, but the block as well, straight through to the paper! An added plus - you can see whether the stamp is completely inked as well.

To get the images uniform when using a wood mounted stamps, work from the outsides, moving inward. I stamped the upper left hand corner first, then the right, trying to stay just as far from the edges on both images. I then centered the stamp between the two images to place the third image in the middle. Repeat the same procedure for the bottom half. Don't worry if the images are a little askew. It will look fine so long as they are uniformly spaced.

The last step is to add some color! I used a set of markers I had on hand. They were Martha Stewart craft brush pens. They have a brush tip with apointed end which makes it quite easy to add color to small images without going out of the lines. They also have really bright colors! Although any marker will do and there are plenty available on the market, online, and in arts and crafts stores. If you are really into crafting and cardmaking you could even go with a more expensive pro-quality kind of marker. I hear nothing but great things about the Copic markers!

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