Dizzy's shower invitations

These might go down as the least amount of money I have ever spent on such a project. Here are the materials I used:

• 1 box Target wedding invitations ($6.24)


• 1 piece purple cardstock (free!)


• 1 piece green cardstock (free!)


• foam mounting (part of invitation box)


• glue stick ($1.59 - used like 1/10 of it)


• label paper (free? - still have a ton that I got for free a few years ago)
  

Ok, a few months ago while perusing the end isles at Target (where they have all the sales), I noticed multiple boxes of those DIY wedding invitation kits for cheeeeap. I'm talking $6.24 for 50 invites, 50 response cards, 50 invite envelopes, 50 response card envelopes, foam mounting and some label thingeys that you were supposed to attach to the invite. I bought 1 box that had sort of a non descript brown pattern on it, figuring I would use it for something...and I did!

Here is what I did:

printed the invite using brown ink that matched the brown pattern - fonts used: Dreamspeak and Miss Brooks.

Cut out rounded squares and asterisk on the Cricut out of purple and green cardstock that I got from Archiver's.

If you live near an Archiver's, get on their mailing list. They send out monthly newsletters with coupons for free cardstock - no purchase necessary. Oh yeah, and sorry, I didn't calculate the uber expensive Cricut into the price. Jon's mom has one, so I borrowed it. If you don't have access to a die cutter, I would get one of those fiscars hole punches in different shapes and sizes and come up with a cool design. I actually was considering the design below, in which I used the extra large Fiskars circle punch. The littler circle I cut with the Cricut, but you could just use a smaller circle hole punch.

glue asterisk to the rounded square

attach foam mounting to the invitation

attach graphic to foam mounting

done.

so easy. so cute. so inexpensive!


I did some creative math and figured these came to about 8 cents per invite (including the envelopes, not including postage). 8 cents! So in total, for 32 invitations, they cost about $2.00.

As for the envelopes...I will admit, they were not my best moment.

I spent a long time over at Two Peas in a Bucket and downloaded A TON of their free digikits. I got this graphic from the "Proud to be Digital" kit and I'm just really not sure why I picked it. There are lot of other ones that I downloaded that are much cuter. I tried to choose one that kind of coordinated with the invitation...and well...I just don't know.

I've got a lot more ideas swimming around in my head for the actual shower. More to come...