Make Your Own Beach Party Invitations

You will also need to choose a decorative paper (or simply a yellow cardstock/color of your choice) to use as the background (sky?) for the beach party invitations. These should be cut into rectangles to fit the top of the card.

You'll need some mellow yellow paper cut into circles for the sun (I used a large circular punch for this) as well as some scallop cloud like shapes of white cardstock for the clouds. I used a scallop punch to create the shapes but these could also be free-cut by hand.

Lastly, you'll need some letters to spell out the "Beach Party" message on the front of the invite. I used my die cutter to create the letters from cardstock. You could but pre-cut letters, or even better - some letter stickers! Rubber stamp letters would work out fine as well.

Creating Homemade Invitations

Now to put it all together!

I chose to use some quick dry craft glue to pull this project together. You could also choose to use a glue runner, or glue stick.

I started by attaching the yellow decorative paper to the top half of the card. I applied some adhesive to the back of the paper and simply popped it into place by aligning the edges at the top of the invite.

To get the waves attached in their rightful places I started by simply placing them (no glue) onto the paper starting from the bottom up. Once I knew where the proper place for the top most wave was, I glued that one into place.

Starting from the top and working downward, I glued the different wave shapes into place, overlapping as I went. I tried to place opposite shapes next to each other and even turned some over so they were backwards.

I glued the sun into place at the upper left hand corner of the card, as well as one of the cloud shapes which I slid slightly underneath teh waves.

For the very last step I attached two of the cloud shapes together and then glued the lettering onto those. To finish the beach party invitations I simply glued this last piece into place and left everything to dry!