I have a confession to make…
I have never created invitations or thank you cards for my son's birthday parties. I always buy them (gasp) LOL. In previous years he's had themed parties, Star Wars, SpongeBob, GI Joe, ect so it just made sense to purchase them. This year we didn't have a theme and he only invited a few friends so I thought I'd try to come up with a design that wasn't cutesy and met the standards of a preteen aged boy.
I decided to go with a gate fold style card. I used some TAC stamps for the background & focal image. To create the background I used Versamark ink and stamped the text repeatedly, staggering the lines. This is a technique I use often to create patterned paper. It works well with text and images! The gift image I colored using Copic markers.
I created the invite wording using Microsoft Word. They came together pretty quickly and T was happy with them and had a fun birthday!
