Halloween Baby Shower Invitation

Today I would like to share with you guys a DIY baby shower invitation that I made for my baby shower. I wanted to have a different and unique baby shower instead of the typical blue or pink, so I decided to have a Halloween Costume party shower instead. Here are my results.

To make the invitation, I went on google and found this simple blank template to use. Then I loaded the image into GIMP, a free open source editing tool. It is like a free version of Photoshop if anyone has never heard of it. It is not Photoshop so don't hold me on this one. Anyway, once loaded I can start adding texts and whatever else I want. Once finished, I export it to my desktop so that I can get it printed later.

This is what I finally came up with. Its simple and doesn't take long to make. You can probably guess that the top blemish is my address and the rest has my name and phone number. I don't want the world spamming me so I had to take it off. :)

Now that the actually invitation is done, lets move onto the envelope.

I got these orange envelopes at Party City in the Halloween section. It came 20 to a pack so I bought two packs. BTW, the envelope doesn't come with the bottle. I made that separately. 

I bought this pack of scrap booking paper from target. I went on google again and found a silhouette of a baby bottle, since it is a baby shower invite, print it out on cardstock paper so that it can be sturdy, cut it out, and trace it onto the scrapbook paper that I like. You can use whatever silhouette you want, depending on what you're doing. I got about four bottles to one sheet of paper. Then I cut them out and glue them to the front of my envelopes, as pictured above.

I bought these little foam stickers at Dollar Tree to seal the back of my envelopes. And the result is this:

I mix and match them up for every envelopes so that it would be more interesting.

Well, there goes my party invitation. I'll be hand delivering most of these to ensure the post office doesn't open them, as I have found out that they do such a thing (from previous experience). If you are going to send them, I recommend leaving the bottle off the front and sealing the back with tape, as the foam sticker is easy to take off.

Here's a break down of my total cost for this whole project:

2 packs of envelopes: $16

foam stickers: $1

scrapbook paper: $6

getting the invitations printed at Walgreens: 50 for $7

Total = $30 or $0.75 for each completed envelopes ( I made 40 )

I hope that was helpful and thanks for stopping by!