Make these Unique Baby Shower Invitations

To make these unique baby shower invitations will take a little bit of work. The upside is that your party's guests will be impressed with what you've created.

To make your own baby shower invitations shows a little bit of sentimentality. In my opinion an event like this is as sentimental as you can get! A baby shower needs to have this added bit of love!
I created these invites using some vellum imprinted with baby footprints which I attached to card stock. This is not totally necessary. You could easily go with a plain or decorative card stock. It's all up to you! Switch it up however you want to match the theme of your shower!

Choose a decorative paper for both the background of the invitation (or keep it plain it's up to you), and another separate decorative paper to make the small square decoration for the front of the invitation. You will also need a card stock to use as the base of the invitation.

Tools needed to make these unique baby shower invitations:

8 1/2 by 11" card stock
decorative papers
baby diaper pins
ribbon
small stickers

Step One: Getting the words on paper. For both the front and inside of this invitation I used a 4-up layout (four to a page click here for more info) I used a desktop publishing program to set up the text. For more info about designing your own text layout visit the Cardmaking Basics section of this website.

*want to skip the desktop publishing section of making these invitations? go here to download the printable pdf text file for the Unique baby shower invitations.

Print the text for the front of the card onto either thick paper like card stock (if you want to keep it somewhat plain), or print it onto a decorative paper to use as a background for the base of the invitation (you will later attach this to card stock to make the invitation.) Make sure and choose a pattern that is not so bold that it will drown out the text on the invitation.
The size of the paper you use should be 8 1/2" by 11". Print the inside of the invitation onto the back of the decorative paper of your choice.

* You could also choose to print both pages out onto plain white printer paper and bring them both to a local copy shop. There you can enlist their services to copy your invitations for you. They will also have card stock there for you to choose from and will usually copy onto any paper you bring in with you.

Step Two: Cutting the paper for the unique baby shower invitations. This can be an easy step or a tedious one. It's your choice!

You can choose to bring all of your invitation paper to a local copy or print shop and have them cut this paper for you! This kind of service is relatively cheap. Last I checked the service ran about $1 per cut with a minimum of $5. Since the hydraulic paper cutter are designed to cut a large quantity of paper at once, for a project like this one it will only cost you the minimum since it only takes two cuts to complete.

If you want to cut costs as much as possible and don't mind doing a little extra work you can cut the paper by hand using a good personal hand paper cutter.

* more info about cutting, scoring and folding invitations and where to get the tools to do it yourself.

Cut all the papers you will be using for these unique baby shower invitations into quarters.

Step Three: Folding Invitation paper. Fold the pieces of decorative paper with the inside text for the invitation printed onto the back of them. Fold them into quarters (in half and in half again) so that the text is on the inside.

Step Four: Attach the unique baby shower invitations decorations. Start by Attaching the baby diaper pin to the card using a good craft glue (like an Elmer's type of glue.) After tying a small ribbon bow onto the pin, apply the glue to both ends of the diaper pin. Place the diaper pin centered between the text and the edge of the card. Placement all depends on where you decide to place the text for the front of the invitation.

Next attach the folded squares of decorative paper with the invitations text on the inside. Do this by applying a layer of glue stick adhesive to the back of the square. Make sure that you are placing the square right side up so that when the recipient opens this folded piece of paper it will be facing right side up.
To finish this invitation use a cute sticker, or scrapbooking charm to seal the folded piece of decorative paper shut. I decided to punch out little hearts out of construction paper and sealed the card shut with these hearts using a glue stick.

More Tips and ideas to make these unique baby shower invitations

* To keep costs low print the inside of the invitation onto plain white printer paper. Fold these pieces into quarters. Then cut the decorative paper into small squares to cover the front of the folded paper. Cut the squares to the same dimensions as the folded square. Attach them to the front with a glue stick.

* Seal the invitation shut with a ribbon instead of a sticker. Do this by gluing the ribbon horizontally across and around the folded piece of decorative paper. Use the loose ends to tie it shut with a bow. Omit the small bow on the diaper pin.

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