A Modern Day Fairy Tale Bridal Shower Invitation Tutorial

Ava and I have been hard at work on the invitations for Kristen's bridal shower and I have to say, I think this is our best work yet!

We knew we wanted gray chevron stripes and hot pink accents to go with the theme we decided on.

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I found a great downloadable template for the gray chevron stripes and center cutout online. Sorry, I didn't save the source, but I manipulated it quite a bit using Paint (of all things!) so it's hardly recognizable from the original anyhow.

Then I imported the file to PowerPoint and added the lettering there, which was mostly inspired by these beauties (on the left, below) you may remember from here:

I downloaded a font called Baroque Script (available here) for the bride's name and date and other cursive wording. I used Niagara Engraved for the capital letters and Tw Cen MT Condensed for the rest of the lowercase wording.

Once the digital file was prepared, I just ran it off through the printer (we recently got a great, photo printer -- a Canon PIXMA MG5320 -- which has been treating us very well so far) onto 4.5" x 6.5" white linen card stock from CutCardStock.com. (I've done a ton of research over the last few years and this place usually has the best deals considering they trim to most sizes at no additional charge. And white linen is classic and works with most designs. I usually try to order as much as I think I'll need for a while in bulk to avoid multiple shipping charges, which is really the killer in my price comparisons.)

Next, I adhered each printed cards to some 5" x 7" Stardream Azalea card stock using Scotch Super 77 multi-purpose adhesive (which has a really strong smell and makes a big sticky mess, so you may want to do it outside and away from the kiddos) leaving a 1/4 inch trim all around.

Then I just printed the envelopes using the same Tw Cen MT Condensed font for both the return and delivery addresses and the same Baroque Script font for the names (because I like the envelopes to look fancy like that) using MS Word's Mail Merge Wizard (detailed instructions here).

After stuffing and stamping, the last finishing touch was to stamp the key (using a silver inkpad) onto the back flap of each envelope. I played around with several other images on the invitations themselves (like the ring in the No. 38 bridal shower invite shown above) as well as some scrapbooking embellishments (since I loved the flower and ribbon combo around Tori's shower invites above) but this is the only embellishment that made the cut with this design. Simple, modern, with a touch of romantic. Et voila!

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