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Oct 8, 2011
DIY Halloween Party Invitations
Halloween is creeping up on us and you should probably have already sent out your party invitations by now. But just incase you haven't then head on over to our DIY Halloween Invitations section to find something you like.
Now there is a bunch of great Handmade Halloween invitation ideas for the DIYer including monster and coffininvitations.
There are printable Halloween invites for the semi-diyer whos diy skills go only as far as printing a free premadeinvitation and then filling in the party details by hand.
And finally we have the customized photo Halloween Invitations. These are strictly for those who completely lack the diy gene and do not mind shelling out a few dollars for someone else do all the work to produce a fantastic invitation design complete with invite wording (that someone would be me of course) Fortunately, our invitations are designed to print as 4x6" and 5x7" at your local photo lab by you. So we are able to offer our designs to you at a pretty decent price. You can then take your photo invitation and print it for around 8-15 cents per print. easy peasy.
Whatever way you decide to go you should very well find something to suit you.
Happy Haunting!
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Sep 8, 2011
Halloween Party Decorations Pack
Halloween is Just around the corner and so to introduce our new Printable Halloween Party Decoration Pack for 2011 we're giving one away for free.
Halloween Decoration Party Pack
To enter our little giveaway simply enter simply leave a comment on our Invitations Facebook page with the title of your favorite scary movie. We'll pick a random winner on Saturday 6pm EST.
Take a closer look at our filled with printable cupcake wraps and toppers, water bottle wraps, a very cool pennant banner and a few more extra goodies.
Aug 1, 2011
Homemade Pocket fold wedding invites
Love these homemade pocketfold wedding invitations made by Jenny. Nice rich purple premade pockets with white insert cards (printed at home on to crisp white card stock. The invite features a photo of Jenny and her fiance with a layer of vellum over the top with the invitation wording.
Simple and elegant and best of all hand made!
Pocket fold wedding invitations
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Jun 24, 2011
Make homemade Safari Invitations for your Childs Birthday
Ideas to make Safari Invitations with a tutorial to make scroll jungle birthday invitation.
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Jun 23, 2011
farm birthday invitations
A down on the farm party is a popular fun theme for children celebrating a first birthday especially in the spring when the baby farm animals are abound. Love the little sheep and piggies. See our ideas for making your own barnyard or farm party invitations. There are several different methods including printing on your computer as well as some crafty ideas. So get out your scissors and glue. There is also a free barn template that you can download and print for free.
For those who prefer the hard word done by someone other than themselves, you can always order one of our custom farm invitation designs, we'll personalize with the invitation wording of your choice as well as a photo of your child.
Down at the farm customized invitations
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Jun 10, 2011
How to make Sesame Street Invitaitons
Throw your child a cool Sesame Street themed birthday party! Get all of the Sesame St gang together as well as the guest of honor's friends for a bright colorful celebration. To complete your childs birthday party them try making your own Sesame Street Birthday Invitations. Follow along with our Cookie Monster invitation tutorial, it's so easy a child could make them. You can adapt the theme to yellow big bird invites, green Oscar, Red Elmo and so on.
Cookie Monster Birthday Invitaitons
See more tutorials forhow to make kids birthday invitations. There are invitation instructions for many different birthday party themes.
I remember watching Big Bird, Cookie Monster, Elmo, Snuffy and the rest of the gang when I was just a child and now I'm making Sesame Street invitations for my own daughter.
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Jun 6, 2011
Printable baby shower invitaitons
A sweet silhouette of a mama to be with a beautiful baby sonogram in her belly. What a special way to invite your friends and family to your baby shower. If it is a surprise baby shower then mom to be will be in for a treat as well. We will customize this printable sonogram invitation with wording for your baby shower celebration and insert a picture of the baby's ultrasound to make it more personalized. We can tint the sonogram to blend in with the invitation color sheme.
Blue for a boy, Pink for a girl and green, beige, orange or yellow for a surprise. Print as many as you like at home or at your photolab.
For the DIY mommy to be check out our range of home made baby shower invitation ideas.
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May 31, 2011
Hot VistaPrint Invitation Deals
May 22, 2011
A few engagement quotes
Just a quick note to let you all know we have a selection of http://www.make-your-own-invitations.com/engagement-quotes.htmlengagement quotesthat you might use to accent your engagement party invitations.
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May 17, 2011
Hot Zebra Print 30th Birthday Invitation Designs
Celebrate 30 years of fun, friendship and family with this customizable invitation. Wrapped in a wild zebra design in black and white. The guest of honor will be featured in a hot pink frame (totally changeable of course) The photo can be tinted in black and white, sepia or left in color. All wording and colors can be changed to suit the occasion.
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May 13, 2011
Bridal Shower Invitations for a Beach theme
Bring your guests to the beach with these flip flop bridal shower invitations. dive right into your beachy wedding shower theme and set the tone right away. These are a casual and fun invitation made with card stock, ribbon and a two prong brad. Perfect for a laid back affair. Embellished with a faux flower to finish the whole design off. You can certainly recreate this invite with ease.
Grab a make your own bridal invitation idea for your wedding shower.
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May 12, 2011
Elephant Baby Shower Invitations
Planning a baby shower for a friend or family member. Elephants are the cutest and these elephant baby shower invitations are simply the cutest. Make your own baby shower invites with an elephant theme. Follow how Ruby put together these invites with a little crafty ingenuity.
Elephant baby shower invites
Check out more baby shower invitation ideas There are heaps of tutorials and examples to make all kinds of baby shower invites.
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May 9, 2011
Make Yummy Lollipop Invitations
Sweet Lollipop Invitations for an even sweeter candy land theme birthday party. Try your hand at making these super cute and colorful birthday invitations. They are very clever and the kids will love them. Imagine if you substituted the cardboard lollipop for a real one with a round invitation card attached to it with all the pertaining party details. The kid would go crazy for them (likey the parents might too...lol)
Bright Lollipop Invitations
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May 4, 2011
Music Playing Wedding Invitation
Just had to share this most creative record player wedding invitation that was made by Karen and Mike for their upcoming nuptuals.
What does it do exactly. Well it is a booklet invitation with a couple of simple DIY instructions (fold here, place needle here...) to transform the invite into a functional record player which will a catchy little tune written and recorded on to flexi disc by mike and karens original song. The sound quality is a little garbled but you get the jist.
You can find more details about this booklet styled invitation that doubles as a record player on Karens website.
May 3, 2011
Sea Shell Wedding Invitations Tutorial
Make these very simple and effective Beachy themedsea shell wedding invitations. You can follow our step by step tutorial to make these invitations your own. If you don't have the exact sand inspired papers or shell stamps that we have used then you can switch them for a different kind and still maintain a beach feel. Try aqua blue colors and textured hand made paper or corrugated paper for a different appeal. Add your own personal touches to these beautiful invitations and make your wedding day one to remember.
Beach sea shell wedding invitations
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Apr 18, 2011
Lego Birthday Invitations
Are you planning a Lego Birthday Party for your child? If you are then you need to see how you can make your own very cool party invitations. We've got ideas and free resources including Lego fonts, Lego clipart as well as a free printable lego invitation.
Free Printable Lego Invitaitons
There's wording advice and ideas for computer made invites as well as your regular paper, scissors and glue invitations that the little ones would love to help you with.
So head on over to the Lego Birthday Invitations and start creating your party invitations.
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Apr 4, 2011
invitation deals at Vistaprint
Just in case you're looking at Vistaprint to get your invitations they are having a 50% off deal running at the moment.
you can check out our post card tutorial which shows you how you can make your own invitations ready to print at vistaprint.
They're also having a free shipping promo with 25% off for new customers. I guess you can work out which deal will suit you better.
Mar 31, 2011
Photobooth Wedding Save The Dates
We have beefed up our Photo Booth Save the Date Wedding Section with a couple of great tutorials to show you how you can make your fabulous save the date cards. There are photobooth signs for you to download and print as well as a photobooth gallery with a quick look at all the photobooth themed examples that we have.
This is a great way to announce to your friends and family that you are getting married. So grab your camera and get snapping!
Custom Photobooth Save the date design
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Mar 30, 2011
70th Birthday Invitations
Planning a 70th birthday celebration? Then check out our70th birthday invitations section, there are ideas, poems and wording samples for you to use on your homemade invitations.
70th birthday invites
If you have made your own 70 birthday invites then we'd love to see them. Send em over to us at the contact page.
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Nov 26, 2010
Ticket Wedding Invitation
Make wicked cool concert ticket wedding invitations at home on your own computer. All you need to is spreadsheet software like Microsoft Excel. Jeannie shares with us her tips and advice for making these fabulous music themed invites.
Ticket Wedding Invitations
For more DIY wedding invitation ideas, be sure to check out our make your own wedding invitations section of our website, there is something for everyone.
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