Make Pajama Party Invitations

If you are planning a slumber party this gives you a great opportunity to make your own Pajama Party invitations. These Invites will be a fun craft project for your kids and besides, finding party invitations specifically for a pajama party will not be the easiest task. Here is a fun idea I came up with for building some pajama party invites.

Tools needed for building these invitations:
8 1/2" by 11" cardstock
scrapbook background paper, construction, or wrapping paper
scissors
art pens
glue or gluestick

What I used:
8 1/2" by 11" purple cardstock as the base of the card,
lilac/ lavender cardstock,
scrapbook background paper,
colored sparkle art pens,
gluestick.

Pajama party invitations

Instructions for building Pajama Party Invitations

Step One: Designing the text. I used my desktop publishing software to lay out out the front of the card's text as a 2-up format (2 cards to a page). For the text on the inside of the card I used a 4-up (4 to a page) format.

pajama party invitations text lay-out

(above is an example of how I designed the pajama party invitations text layout for the front and inside of the cards. The pink lines represent where you would have the paper cut. On the front of card lay-out the blue verticle line represents where you will fold the cards.)

Step Two: Printing it! You have two options of how to get your pajama party invitations text onto paper. You can A. Print the text onto plain white printer paper and then take it to a local copy shop to copy onto your chosen papers. (this will help conserve your computer's printer toner or inkjet).
or B. Print straight onto your chosen papers.
The text for the front of the card should be printed onto the 8 1/2" by 11" cardstock. The inside text should be printed onto a lighter weight paper like 20 lb. in either white or a light pastel paper.

Step Three: Cutting the papers. Your best bet here would be to take the papers to a copy or print shop to have them cut on a large hydraulic cutting machine. This is because not only do you have alot of different papers to cut but also because the cutting machine will make very precise cuts.
If you are in it to save money, not time, then it would not be very hard to cut them all by hand with a paper cutter.

* For more about personal hand paper cutters, and where to get them click here.

The cardstock base of the card (front) should be cut in half horizontally to make two cards out of each sheet. The insides text sheet of the cards should be cut into quarters.
Now for the embelishments! You will be cutting papers to end up with two different sized squares (in which to glue one on top of the other.) The first square should measure about 3 3/4" by 3 1/2". (The measurements do not have to be exact of course.) The second square will be a bit smaller at 3" by 3".

Step Four: Make Pajama embellishments! There are several ways to do this. What I did was search out the word "pajama" in a search engine images search. When I found a graphic I like I just printed it onto the back of the scrapbook background paper and then simply cut it out.
You could also just draw pajamas yourself onto the paper and then cut those out.
You could use a stencil or die cut.
You could print just one pajama image onto cardstock and then use that as a kind of stencil for cutting the rest.
Once you have your pajama cut-out then just use some art pens to draw on things like the cuffs and zippers.

Step Five: Glue it all together! Now all that need be done is adhere it all to your cardstock base of the card. I started by glueing the two front squares down with a good gluestick. I centered the larger square onto the base of the card, and then glued the next square down a little askew.
Next just glue down your pajamas centered into the middle of it all!
To give it a little extra something I glued a second different set of pajamas to the inside of the card opposite of the text. I then glued the inside text into the card. Done!

More Tips and suggestions for pajama party invitations

* Embellish even further with glitter! A light coat of glitter in the background of the card would look beautiful!

* Try switching up the papers you use for your "pajamas". How about using fabric instead of paper, or felt!

* How about attatching little teeny pom-poms or beads or ribbon to the "pajamas".

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