Pool Party Invitations
Splish Splash - It's a poolside bash.
If you are looking for some ideas for your digital poolside party you can get an image of the Nirvana album with the baby swimming in the pool and use Photoshop substitute the babies head for your head.
Clipart images available freely on the internet to spice up your invites: pools, water, cocktails, thongs or flip flops, swimsuit, bikinis, lilo or other blow up water toys, swimming mask and snorkel
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 DIY pool party invitation |
The coolest Flip Flop Invitations
These flip flop shaped invitations are crazy cool and easy to make. I wanted to throw a party for my boyfriends 25th birthday and I wanted something that would stand out, I saw some cards that a friend of mine received in the shape of a pair of flip flops and thought I would make some myself since we were going to have a pool party the theme fit.
How to make it
I didn't have anyone to show me how to make them and I didn't have a template so I did it like this:
Made the invitation template
- Typed the who, what, where when stuff up in Word. I made sure that all the lines were center justified and laid out like a tall skinny column. Fonts: Century Gothic and Disko from dafont.com
- I printed the text onto some thin cardboard ( the text ended up being around 2"x4.5")
- I then sketched a flip flop shape around the text leaving lots of room at the top. I made three cuts for the straps made with ribbon from the craft store.
- I then cut two lengths of ribbon to create the straps and slipped them through the cuts to make sure that they looked good.
- I pulled the ribbon out and used this card as my 'top template'. It actually took a few attempts and a couple of time outs to get the text and the shape right.
- I took the 'top template' and laid it down on some card and sketched around it leaving a narrow border. I cut it out and this became the 'bottom template' which is necessary to cover the straps poking out at the bottom of the invite.
- With my two templates in hand I was ready to go.
Putting it all together
- I printed out the invite stuff onto plain paper 4 to a sheet. I used my old scrapbooking chalks and coloring pencils to color stripes over the whole flip flop.
- I placed the template over the top and traced the outline and the cuts for the ribbon.
- Snip snip with the scissors
- Thread the ribbon through slits and tape them to the back
- Trace the bottom template onto blue card and snip snip again with the scissors
- Glued the top of the invitation to the bottom and that was it.
Magnet on the back
I stuck a small flat magnet to the back so that his friends could stick it to their fridges (boys are hopeless!) You can buy these magnets with adhesive backing in thin strips and cut it with a pair of scissors - very handy.
Photo Pool Party Invitations
Pool party invitations made for 6th birthday party. Using photos of the family.
Eric
San Francisco
