Easy Halloween party invitations.

Each year I hand make the invitations for our Halloween Party. I enjoy doing it, and I usually try to come up with something a little different each time I make them. However, this year I was so pressed for time that I just did an even easier version of the Halloween party invitations I made last year.

The invitations I made last year were this same basic pocket style card and insert, but last year’s had more ribbon and embellishments.

This year I just didn’t have the time or energy, but they are still cute. I started off by choosing a black, glittered 12 x 12 cardstock. I cut it in half so that I ended up with two 6 x 12 pieces. When I had enough pieces cut, I took them out to our backyard, laid them out on our lawn, side by side and very close together, glittered side down.

I mixed a little red acrylic paint with just a few drops of water, dipped a paintbrush in it and flicked the red paint all across the cardstock, splatter-style. Once the paint was dry, I brought them all in and folded them into this pocket shape. Measure 2 inches and make a fold. This creates the pocket. Then simply fold the card in half. I ended up using my Scotch Adhesive Dot Roller and a few drops of super glue to create the pocket. (I wanted it to be nice and strong.)

To create the actual invitation card, I basically created a text photo. I opened up ipiccy.com and edited one of my existing photos. I basically turned the whole photo white and then played around adding the text and a skeleton key graphic from The Graphics Fairy.

The whole thing was saved as a jpeg then inserted into a word document. Four of the photos fit on one piece of letter sized white cardstock. Print and cut.

While I just kind of eyeball the cuts on the white, printed paper, I measure the cardstock that I mount it to. I chose a gray 12 x 12 cardstock and was able to cut four pieces that measured 5.25″ by 4.75″ each. I rubbed the edges of the cut pieces with a black stamp ink pad. I took a little red grosgrain ribbon, and taped one edge to the front of the gray cardstock, wrapped it around the back and taped the other end. When I adhered the white, printed piece it covered the ends of the ribbon.

Easy!