Make Your Own Duckie Birthday Invitations
These duckie birthday invitations are perfect for a baby's theme party or a first birthday party. Make the theme "rubber duckie" and your golden for a matching invitation!
These are pretty simple to create. Just pair some card stock with a little duckie themed decorative paper and some ribbon.
Materials needed to create duckie birthday invitations:
- 8 1/2" by 11" card stock
- duckie themed decorative paper
- 8 1/2" by 11" plain white paper or vellum (optional)
- ribbon
- glue runner or other permanent adhesive
How to Make Duckie Birthday Invitations
Printing the wording onto this invitation can get a bit tricky, so I have provided a printable template to help make this card. You can download it by donating $1 to help keep this site up and running.
The template for making these duckie birthday invitations comes as two differnt sizes. You can make your invitations on the larger size by making each one out of a full size sheet of 8 1/2" by 11" card stock. I also provided a template for making smaller half sheet size invitations. This way you can conserve paper, not to mention it is a much easier size to find affordable envelopes to go with them.
Start by printing the template onto your chosen card stock. To make the invitations a bit more fancy try printing the text for the inside of the card onto either plain white cotrton paper to layer to the inisde, or even print onto a translucent or frosted vellum.
Next you will cut the decorative duck themed paper down to size. For a larger invitation cut the paper to measure 8 1/2" by 10". For the smaller invites cut the paper to 7 3/4" by 5 1/2".
Now comes the trickier part - folding these invitations. It may be easiest to fold these if you score them first. Many sliding blade paper cutters have a scoring attachment.
For the larger invite score the paper at 1" from the edge where the "Happy Birthday" text is printed and then measure the halfway point between the score mark and the opposite edge. For the smaller invitation score them 3/4" of an inch form the edge, and then measure the halfway point between the edges to fold.
Now to attach the decorative paper. Start by applying a strip of adhesive to the outer edge of teh decorative paper, using your glue runner. Attach this edge of the paper to the cardstock, at the fold just after the "Happy Birthday" wording. apply another strip of glue to the cardstock along the opposite edge and then smooth the decorative paper over and into place. Fold it around the edge to the front of the card. Apply two more strips of glue and attach the paper to the front.
To attach the ribbon to the card first lay the ribbon onto some scrap paper. About 7 - 10 inches down from the edge of the ribbon apply a small amount of adhesive from your glue runner. Attach the ribbon to the back of the card, meeting the back edge of the card with the part of the ribbon which you applied the glue. Wrap the ribbon around the card and apply another small strip of glue to attach it to the front. Make sure and apply the glue to a spot before the fold of the flap on the front of the card. Tie the ribbon in place so the bow meets on the front of the card, not to the side.
That's it! Now you've got really cute duckie birthday invitations that will really make a great first impression for your party!
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