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How to make the coolest kid’s invite
It was my babygirl’s birthday yesterday and of course this calls for a big celebration. She’s been running to the study every morning when she wakes up for weeks, checking each day off her countdown calendar. Then she runs up to our room to inform us of how many nights there are left until her birthday.
Without thinking, I told her she could invite every girl in her class. And her friend V’s neighbor too, because she likes her so much. I put the party in the back of my mind (because I couldn’t be bothered with the stress it brings yet), but we were certainly looking forward to the invites.
I’m fortunate enough to have an arts & crafts club right here at Amayzine HQ, Josselin and Lilian, otherwise known as Studio B(r)ijl, who jump at the words ‘kid’, ‘invite’ and ‘crafts’. And you can make these as well. Even without the dynamic duo.
1. Collect a couple of pictures of your kid and some festive accessories (flag, banner, candle, hat and something personal like an picture of her favorite animal) and make a little collage that, if you want to be hip, you can call a flat lay.
2. Make sure there are some 3D elements in the collage; this gives the image more depth.
3. Write your kid’s name and age in a pretty font (or stick on cool letters).
4. Take a picture of the flat lay and print it on nice thick paper.
5. Make the invites heavier by sticking the printed paper onto a piece of carton.
6. Customize the back by sticking something to it which you have photographed on the front. Confetti for instance.
7. You can put the invite in a semi-transparent envelope which you can fill with colored confetti.
8. You can also fill a little plastic bag with confetti or some candy hearts and staple the bag in the top left corner of the invite.
9. Try to make these special, handmade invites every year so that everyone knows that the invite is from your kid just by looking at it.
10. Save one for your archive and for a possible show and tell.
