Make handmade Luau Invitations!Planning A Luau? Well you'll surely need some Luau invitations! Here I have created some Luau invitations with hawaiian themes using flowers, a palm tree, a hawaiian print paper and hawaiian themed fonts. Generally a Luau is another word for a Hawaiin feast. These days a Luau is best described as a hawaiian themed party. You can throw a regular Luau party just for the sake of having a Luau, but alot of people are also using Luau as the theme for parties like birthdays, or weddings.
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Step Two: Cut your cardstock sheets in half so that you have cards that are 5 1/2" wide and 8 1/2" long (once they are folded in half they will be 5 1/2" by 4 1/4" Luau invitations).
Step Three: First fold the cards in half. If you choose to use a copy or print shop to have them copied and cut then chances are that they may fold them for you also. If you are folding them yourself then you may want to score them first, or run a straight edge such as a ruler along the fold to give it a clean crease.
Step Four: Now to make all the embellishments. (Here's a good point to get the kids involved :) ) Let's start with the palm tree. I first drew little tree trunks onto some brown construction paper and cut them out using some scissors. I added some depth to them by drawing some lines for texture with a brown magic marker. Next I made little flowers to decorate the border of the Luau invitations to resemble a flower lei. I did this using small and medium sized heart shaped paper punches. I punched all the medium heart shapes out of yellow construction paper first. I then used a gluestick to glue them down with all of their points facing inwards to shape a flower (the hearts resembling flower petals). To go a little further I punched out small heart shapes out of white paper and glued these on top of the the yellow flowers. To top the flower off I used a very small circular paper punch to create the flower stem in the middle of each flower. I punched these out of orange construction paper. The last step is to cut out the letters to spell Luau. I cut these out freehand using a small set of scissors. You could also choose to use letter shaped paper punches or even a stencil.
Once you have adhered all of the shaped onto the card just let it dry and you are ready to start inviting your guests!
* No need to go through all the trouble of making the embellishments by hand if it seems like too much for you. Many scrapbook supply stores offer some very cool embellishments to add to cards like these. For more about scrapbook embellishment and where to get some very cool luau embellishments go here.
* The papers you choose to add to the background of these invitations is purely your choice. You can go with a scrapbook paper like I did or even leave it plain. Switch it up and see what you might like best. The paper I used (by the way) was a scrapbook background paper made by Karen Foster. It is called red hawaiian shirt.
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