I am planning Joshua (my soon to be 8 year old) a baseball themed birthday party. I have searched online for ideas, and of course pinned everything I found interesting.
I will blog through planning and if this will help one mother out there to have a cool baseball party for her son, I will consider it a mission accomplished.
The first thing I did, was to create a board on Pinterest for Joshua's Party and create a QR Code that links to that board. I will add the QR code to the invitation that I will show you here how to do.
Ok. So lets create this invitation.
I use Microsoft Publisher. I am not a graphic designer by any means, and yes I would love to know how to use Photoshop and other tools... I just don't. So hang with me, I care about the final product and that is what matters!
I have envelopes at home, so to take advantage of that, I started with a new custom size publication. 9in height x 4in width.
I chose blue for the background to match the party colors.
I scanned Joshua’s baseball picture and made it black and white.
I added his picture with a round frame and then another two of the same shapes as text box for the writing area. The board area in black and fill area in light gray. The fonts used for this invitation are on the Pinterest board. I added basic information to the invitation and used the barcode font to create a barcode and make it look even more like a ticket. I used an invitation I found on Pinterest as inspiration. OF COURSE! What good does Pinterest if you only PIN stuff, but do nothing with it? :)
Here is the final invitation. I will find out if I can upload the Publisher file so that you can use it as a template if you would like.
Let me know what you think. I deleted the personal information from the invitation.
Thank you for reading, and see you soon.
Twitter: @sllacera
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