Make "Real" Footprint Baby Shower Invitations

What better theme to go with a baby shower than baby footprints? These footprint baby shower invitations will compliment this theme wonderfully!

First step: Pour some glue out into the middle of a paper plate. Let it spread out into a good puddle.

Step Two: Take your hand and make a loose fist. Dip the outside edge (opposite of your thumb) into the puddle of glue so you have a semi-thin coating on the side of your hand. Now make an imprint of the glue onto your paper. Use your pinky finger to make little toe imprints.

Step Three: Now just pour on your glitter and dump the excess onto another paper plate!

You can use this same technique with any kind of paint, or ink pads! These are perfect for baby shower invitations as well as any favors you may want to include them on!

How to make the "real" footprint baby shower invitations

These cards are actually quite simple to make aside from the desktop publishing involved. For this project I chose to use a spring green colored 65 lb. cardstock to print the postcard text onto and a plain white cardstock for the opposite side of the postcard. This side of the postcard is where I will display the baby footprints!
Start by creating the text on your computer by laying out the text in a postcard format (or 4-up - also four to a page).

When the text is set the way you want it to look print it onto the green cardstock. For the opposite decorative side of the postcard print a simple line of "it's a girl!" or "it's a boy!" centered onto the white cardstock. (When I created the text for this I set the margins on each postcard a 1/4 of an inch smaller to make it easier in creating a colored paper border on this side of the postcard)
* You can skip the desktop publishing part of this project altogether by downloading a printable baby shower postcard invitation text file from the printable section of this site. Go here to download the printable baby shower postcards PDF file Making the footprint baby shower invitations will be so much faster and easier!

Next cut the green cardtock in quarters. You can attempt to cut them yourself with a good paper cutter , or you can have them cut professionally at a copy shop or printer. The plain white cardstock will also need to be cut into quarters. I cut them just a tad bit smaller by trimming the edges. When you attatch both pices together it will create a border of green paper around the outside of the postcard.

Once all the cards are cut to the right size you are ready to start making the baby footprints. Using the glitter and glue make two footprints each on the white cardstock cards using each hand to make left and right "feet". Pour on your glitter and shake off the excess.

The last step is to attatch the white cardstock layer of the postcard to the green cardstock layer with the invitation text. Attatch them facing back to back centering the white cards onto the green card to create an even border.
Once all the glue is dried you are ready to address them and pop them in the mail!

More tips and techniques to create footprint baby shower invitations:

* Expirament with different colors and patterns of papers. Just make sure any patterns don't drown out your text or footprints.

*Instead of printing a message across the top of the footprints, try handwriting it instead! If you have children helping you have them write a baby shower message. Kids handwriting goes very well with the theme!

* Write your message on the front of the postcard in glitter and glue!

*Add extra embellishments! Add ribbon, rubber stamping or bows! The scrapbook section of any arts and crafts store have a very good selection of baby shower related embellishments also!

*As an extra embellishment try replacing the divider line on the text side of your postcard with a glued down length of ribbon & bow.
(make sure any embellishments you add are glued down very well! Keep in mind these are going through the mail!)

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