Skip to main content

Some easy to make 50th birthday invitations

I just found the photos of the invitations for the 50th Birthday party we went to recently and thought I would share the process with you.

I love handmade individual invitations and get a bit of a buzz out of making them. These ones I tried not to make to "girly' as they were for a gentleman's big day so I was aiming for simple, winter, slightly Christmas-y with a bit of a sparkle.

These ones are nice and simple and could be adapted to any slightly more formal occasion or brightened up for less formal ones!

Here's what I did...

First - cut your card to the shape of your envelope. You should be able to get three slices out of an A4 card that fit into a standard business envelope. Choosing a size that has a standard envelope saves a lot of tears (and cost at the Post Office) later on.

There are a "Christmas in July" themed invite with a "snow/cold' feel to them - The background I am using is a plastic $2 tablecloth I got from Crazy Clarkes. I have chopped it up and used it for many things...
I glued on a piece that went roughly 2/3 of the way down.

Then I cut paper doilies in half and glued them on as well.

And then added a handmade snowflake  over the top giving layers of white on white on frosted light green for that frosted snowy winter feel.

I cut (ok I got my sick husband to cut) out all these 50's from some wrapping paper. I would have preferred silver but I simply couldn't find any. I thought silver would go better with the white - but this looked fine in the end.

I turn my invitations into a production line to make sure that I have enough bits and pieces to finish as many invites as I need (plus a few more... You always end up needing more)

Then I cut out the parts for the wording on the front. Again, layers on layers...

Giving me this sort of effect.

And once they are all together - this is what I ended up with!

Like snowflakes, they were all individual as they were all handmade with a different snowflake on each one. All the info for the party was simply typed up on the computer and stuck to the back with a border around it to show the colour of the invite. The table was done up in greens and whites and place tags were just a variation on the part that says "celebrate" on the invitation.

If I was going to do a jazzy, more colourful version of these, I would try painting or dying the doilies a bright colour as well as using brighter backgrounds. I know you can get gold and silver doilies which would be fun to use as well.

The link I used to learn to make six sided paper snowflakes is here and the page I used to get ideas for snowflake shapes is here.

Happy Invitation making!

Score card:
Green-ness: 3/5 Making invites is greener than buying them but plastic is defiantly not green. Waste plastic would have been ok but buying plastic for a project is not.
Frugal-ness: Reasonably cheap as the parts were $2 each and I made over 20 of these with bits left over for other projects. (Plastic table cloth $2, Doilies $2 Wrapping paper with 50 on it $2. Each A4 paper .84c)
Time Cost: Around an hour and a half. Once you know what you want to do - its pretty quick.
Skill level: Once again - cutting and pasting (Two of my favourite activities!)
Fun -ness: Great fun to make and even more fun when the birthday boy approved!

Comments

Lois said…
That looks so time consuming,but it turned out great. I probably would have wanted to use silver paper as well, but think in the end it turned out better without the silver, it makes the numbers really pop
Wonderful birthday invitation! I like your idea, thanks for the tips!
Practical Frog said…
The first one is a bit of a hassle as you decide what you actually want and check that you have enough peices to make it the way you want to. But then its a production line and thats what makes 'em quicker - get the first one sorted and youre away. I'd like to have found silver 50's but 50 is a golden anniversary so everything is gold (took me a while to work out why i couldnt find 'em in silver!) - K xx
Unknown said…
My dad is going to turn 50 next month I'd like some ideas for invitation as well as some nice 50th birthday invitation wording. Thanks for sharing ideas!

Cheers xxxx
Alice
I am thankful for this blog to gave me much knowledge regarding my area of work. I also want to make some addition on this platform which must be in knowledge of people who really in need. Thanks.
End of lease cleaning Barangaroo
BBQ cleaning Balmain
Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...

Popular posts from this blog

What to do when your cat attacks a bird... and doesn't kill it.

We have an eight year old cat who we got as a stray about six years ago. The vet reckoned she was about two when we got her and we did all the right things and got her spayed and vaccinated and all that stuff. She loves people and no matter where you are in the house or garden, she will not be far away. She really good with kids and will put up with the squishiest cuddles and a far bit of toddler tail fascination before bolting out the door to escape. She is well fed (despite the look she is giving me and the empty bowl below...) but not fat - but still the  urge to hunt and subsequently kill still seems to be quite strong. Last weekend, she pounced out of nowhere on a rainbow lorrikeet - thankfully my husband and a band of teenage boys were also there and managed to grab the bird before the cat had done more than pounce. Now we have a slightly mangled still alive but obviously unwell bird on our hands - what do you do? Here's what we did... We found a box - popped an old

Easy to make fabric covers for milk crates!

Like most households, milk crates appear in and about our house as they are the right size to sit on, strong enough to stand on and the right shape to store things in. They are usually free or picked up for a dollar or two at garage sales or at dump/tip shops. They come in red and blue in our area (depending on weather they are originally from Paul's or Dairy Farmers!) and that simply doesn't go with my outdoor decor - neither does the plastic look but that's another issue. Something had to be done. I decided to cover them with material that fitted in with the rest of our current outdoor setting - A quick look on the Internet for inspiration and confidence and... The finished product being modelled by the cat! Here's what I did... I started with the standard Brissy Blue and Red Milk Crates... Then I bought a sheet and a couple of pillow cases from the local Footprints Op Shop This is less a pattern and more a method to follow - Cut the sheet i

Killing cockroaches with boric acid v borax!

We live in Queensland. We have cockroaches. Lots of cockroaches! Why the NSW rugby team is called the Cockroaches is a mystery to me - surely ours are not only bigger but more plentiful??? At any rate, I don't like living with them (and I'm quite sure they  are not so fond of me at the moment!!) and I have been going through the usual gauntlet of sprays, solutions and bombs to get rid of them... But I'm not so keen on the chemical aspect of all this spraying and bombing. I hate the smell and can almost feel disease and cancer growing in me every time I spray. I'm OK with the resident cockies getting a lungful of chemicals and then keeling over but I feel its impolite (and probably illegal) if my guests and family members do the same thing!!! We went through a faze of killing them by hand (and flyswatter and rolled up newspaper and underfoot) but its hard and frustrating work and it probably was only culling the dumb and slow ones - leaving the smart fast ones to bre