Invitation reveal~

So I got the idea for a book from this blogger, Michelle and she ordered and designed them with/from Cassandra on Etsy.    Anyway, I took the idea of a book and ran with it.  Of course I wrote my own story.  So I bought blank cards from a scrapbooking section.  That was a BIG mistake!  They weren't sized properly for my printer and even the custom setting didn't work!  It was a major pain but in the end I worked it out.  Next time I'll buy the printer friendly blank cards!
To design the cards I used Publisher.  I have to say I LOVE publisher.  I publish a family newsletter every 4 months on it, do my business cards, labels, stickers, Christmas cards etc...  All on publisher.  I also use Photoshop for a lot of projects, but publisher is easier to use for some projects.  I print all my envelopes with publisher too, using a homemade address book from excel.

When they were done printing I put the two cards together, so it's 8 front and back pages.  I wanted them to stay together so I used a sewing machine to sew them together.  It was easy, fast and fun!  The back page had all the information on the party.  They turned out even BETTER than I'd hoped.  AND they were still light enough that they only took one stamp!  I am SOOO exciting for this party, it's coming together really well!

Party invite

So I've been a little MIA on posting the last few days. It's not that I'm not crafting, I AM! It's just that I can't really share most of it yet. You see it's all for the big birthday bash I'm throwing my youngest in 2 weeks. SO I'll try to remember to post little tastes of it... After 4 straight days, and over a two dozen problems I FINALLY finished the cute invites and they are in envelopes and ready to mail!
I made the envelopes in Publisher. If you don't have Publisher you SHOULD! My copy is from back in 2003, but I LOVE it. I get Microsoft Office for Publisher alone. I use it all the time, stickers, Invitations, Christmas cards, family newsletters, business cards, etc...
Anywho I'll try to be better about posting, but I don't want to give too much of the party away until I'm ready to reveal it all. I am hoping to get the blog's merged this week AND to celebrate my baby girl and the merge I'll be having a giveaway. So keep checking back!

Lego Invitation

It's my first son's 7th birthday today. This Saturday we're having a party for him. When I asked him what kind of party he wanted he said "Lego". This is actually the first year we've owned lego's! I've always had a baby around and it was never safe. But since we're on a baby break it seemed like the perfect time! So for Christmas my 2nd Son got quite a few lego's to start off the collection. They have both been having a great time. So that's the theme! Here is part of the invitation I sent out. The day/time/address and stuff was off on the side, but here is the image I used. I put this "Happy Birthday Jonathan" together late at night and he woke up to it. He loved it. And it turned out pretty cute I think!