Babies babies everywhere!

Ok, so it's Spingtime and EVERYONE is having babies! So, here are some cute little invites to make if you are one of the lucky few who are not preggo and get to throw all the showers :)

These first ones I did just last month for a dual baby dinner. I did invites for each gal since it was a smaller party and they were each having a different sex. One gal ended up having her baby that day, so she didn't even make to her own shower :(

I used my Cricut and the "Zooballoo" cartridge to cut the cute little elephants and I made them 5" tall. Then for the back piece I set it on "shadow" and still 5" tall. The insert (again designed on Microsft Publisher) is 2 2/4" wide x 3 3/4" tall. I then chalked the edges of each layer and the insert, too. Before putting them together I scored the top to make them easier to open (between 1/4 & 1/2 inch from the top). The easiest way to assemble is to put a small strip of adhesive (tape runner works best) at the top and adhere the top elephant to the bottom elephant. THEN, adhere the insert. On the girl ones I put little bows and they looked soooooo cute! My friend Jessica came over and helped assemble these and it went faster (and more fun to socialize at the same time)

The only thing about these, is they won't fit into an envelope. They ended up being too wide, but were so cute I did them anyways and we just handed them out in person. You could also just use a bigger envelope :)

These cute invites were designed by a friend of mine, Emily Simpson (gotta love her first name!) and I was able to help her put some of them together. I was scared to do these at first, since I had never sewn on paper before these! But, they turned out to be so cute and easy AND you can adapt them to any sort of invite later (I did :)

Start out with your patterned paper of 5 1/4" x 4" (don't forget to ink the edges 1st!) and vellum of 4" x 3 3/4" (print the info on the vellum 1st, so you can print several to a sheet and then cut them down to size). Using a zizagged stitch, sew the vellum to the patterned paper on the top and bottom only. Be sure to tape the loose threads to the back so it doesn't come undone. Then, adhere that a matching piece of solid cardstock of 5 1/2" x 4 1/2" (this is the base and will hide the sewing threads). Do the bow at the top however you'd like and add the "baby" at the bottom using your Cricut or diecut machine....and voila!

These are the most recent ones I made for a dual shower coming up (one gal having a boy and one having a girl). The patterned paper is 4 1/2" wide & 5" tall. Fold it in half tall-wise (so you will end up with 4 1/2" wide x 2 1/2" tall). Ink the edges and adhere the info paper on the front ( 4" inches wide x 2" tall). I just used Microsoft Publisher to design these. Then, with my little sister's help, I filled 4" x 6" bags (you can find them in the craft isle of Walmart or any craft store) with popcorn and stapled the paper over the top of the bag like the bags of candy you find in stores. They were a big hit.....because who doesn't like popcorn?

Have fun!