Yes, I've been absent from the blog again .... life has thrown quite a few problems in our path over the past month and we're finally feeling more back to normal. If normal includes two birthday parties in a week's time, that is.
I told Rachel she could have a party before school gets out this year, since hers is in the middle of summer when most people are on vacation. She wanted a Doctor Who theme and she's been planning this for month - literally. This is where Pinterest became my best friend. I've been pinning all sorts of party ideas.
But first, the invitations.
She wanted Tardis invitations. And they had to open like the doors on the ship.
I found a good photo of the Tardis and printed it using photo paper. Since the doors open in the middle, I needed to make a gatefold card. The card base is just blue cardstock -- the closest I could get to Tardis blue.
If you're going to make a card like this the best advice I can give is to make a practice one, or two if needed using scrap paper. I ended up printing, constructing, then resizing the image a few times before I was satisfied.
For the interior of the card I used the interior of the tenth Doctor's Tardis (yes, and the exterior is the 11th's - the blue in that image matched the paper better). Using photoshop I added all the pertinent party details in large white type.
And, since the card was custom-made, the envelopes need to be as well. I used a standard envelope template for my Silhouette, resizing it to fit the card. Rachel helped me assemble them.
And a final touch with a white gel pen .....
This weekend we're going to do a trial run of making sonic screwdriver pens (another Pinterest find). And I'll be making River Song's diary journals for favors. Now, if only I could get my hands on some jelly babies...
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