Our son's 1st birthday party is set for the first weekend of June and Joel and I have been working tirelessly on his invitations. We are doing a "Very Hungry Caterpillar" theme, and the theme starts with the invitations so here is a little tutorial on how I made my invitations. I think they turned out very, very cute, especially since I do not consider myself a "crafty" person at all.
Materials needed (I got most of mine at Michaels) for 30 invitations:
- 1 large package of primary colors card stock
- 5-6 sheets of white or cream card stock
- 1 sheet black cardstock
- 1 roll of wrapping paper with polka dots
- 1 large Craft glustick (Scotch brand works great)
- 4 Martha Stewart Acrylic craft paint in Tartan Red, Scottish Highlands, Mint and Chamomile
- 1 pair of scissors
- 30 4x6 pictures of your child (closeup works best)
- I red marker
- 1 black marker
- 2- 50 count packages of medium sized brads
- 1 Martha Stewart Circle cutter (trust me when I say you NEED this)
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- cut out 30 circles of each color card stock (red, yellow, green, blue, orange) using the Martha Stewart circle cutter (I used the 4.5 inch measurement for the invites)
- cut out 60 circles of the cream or white card stock at the 4 inch setting on the circle cutter.
- Cut out 30 circles of the wrapping paper at the 4 inch setting.
- Cut out 30 number "1's" or whatever age your child is turning out of cardstock color of your choice...I used red.
- cut out 30 circles from your 4x6 pictures using the circle cutter set at 4 inches.
- For the red circles, paint on eyes and nose of caterpillar using the craft paint.
- For one set of the white/cream circles, write the invitation. I used "We can hardly believe a year has passed, our little caterpillar has grown so fast! Please join us for some food & fun, August James is turning....." I used a red marker for this so it would really stand out.
- For the second set of white card stock, put the party date/address and then make a caterpillar. I dipped my forefinger and thumb in some of the paint (I mixed the 2 greens and yellows to create a nice green that matched the book better) and made a "thumbprint" caterpillar. Then I added eyes, nose and drew the feet and antennas with a marker. This is so much easier than drawing a caterpillar and it looks super cute, too.
- Glue the first set of white card stock onto the yellow circle. I also added a very small picture of my son crawling across the sand on the edge because he looked like a caterpillar but you don't have to do this.
- Glue the 2nd set of white card stock onto the blue circles.
- Glue the wrapping paper circles onto the green circle and then glue the number on top of that. Trace the number with black permanent marker so it really "pops".
- Glue the picture circles onto the orange circles.
- Cut out antennas (free forming it is totally fine, I did each one a little differently) and glue to the back of the red circles so the caterpillar has antennas.
- Set up an assembly line of all your circles in order; red, yellow, green, blue and orange.
- Poke the brads through each circle until they form a caterpillar (not make sure each circle is on top of each other successively to put the brads in or the caterpillar will not close!)
- You are done!
Here is the finished product and some close-ups of the individual circles:
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Yellow Circle |
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Blue Circle |
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Finished Invitation |
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Folded-up invitation for the envelopes |
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Another finished Invitation |
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