Snow White Invites
I really struggled in deciding an invite for Melody’s Snow White themed birthday party. I wanted something easy but cute. I told myself after doing the invites myself the last two years, I was going to buy pre-made ones. Well that didn’t happen. Mainly because I found it hard to find the perfect Snow White invitation. So I came up with an idea. My fear was it would take too long and be too complicated. So instead, I came up with two other ideas. I ran them by Brad and Emily, and they both ended up agreeing on the more complicated one (although they thought the others were cute too). Let me share the final invite along with the other two below.
Below is the my least favorite of the three. Again, I still think it is cute (or I wouldn’t be sharing it), but I found the other two much cuter. So to start with, I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut the red and yellow backgrounds out of cardstock. With the actual invitation part, I played off of the classic Snow White “Mirror, Mirror” line. The basics of the wording across the invitations stayed the same. The writing was done using the Cameo and the pens I bought for it. I included an apple I made that was part of the key decor throughout the party. I used white cardstock for the background, and red cardstock with a 3 cut out of the center.
Then to add some “flair”, I made a “cover” of sorts. I used a paper cutter to cut blue pieces of cardstock out. Then I made a Snow White dress using the Cameo. I glued ALL of the pieces together instead of using double sided tape this year. It held much better since there were so many pieces to work with.
So while this invite was really cute, I felt like the “cover” was too much and didn’t really fit. But without the cover, I felt like it was the same invite as I did last year for Melody’s “You are my Sunshine” party.
Now for my second favorite invite (and actually this was my most favorite but I have a very specific reason I didn’t use it that I explain below). For this invite, I used the Snow White dress that I made using the Cameo. To make it sturdy, I cut out the entire dress using white cardstock, then I glued everything to it. I cut out a yellow dress, a red top, then the blue top has holes cut out so that you can see the red coming through for the sleeves. Again, the wording was practically the same, although I didn’t use an apple for the “3”. And I used the Cameo to do all of the writing.
This was my overall favorite for a few reasons. One - it was so easy to do. It required the least amount of assembling than the rest and would ultimately require the least amount of time. Two - it is just so freaking adorable! I loved this dress and how it turned out.
Now why didn’t I use it? Well I felt like this invite would be PERFECT for a general princess party. And with as girly as my kid is, I feel like that is a definite party that will happen down the road. So I decided to save it (or something similar) for down the road.
Now the invite I actually used. This was actually the original invitation I designed way back when and I made the other two when I started second guessing myself. I drew it up on the Cameo and loved the idea. When I made my first mock invite, it really was difficult to assemble. At first I tried to do it ALL using the Cameo, but I found that just wasn’t going to work. I had to use the paper cutter for a few things to really make this happen. I also had trouble with the Snow White cover, but I ultimately made it work.
The only real thing that changed from my first mock invite was the “cover”. Instead of the blue cardstock having scalloped edges, I used a paper cutter to simply cut the cardstock horizontally. This was much easier and didn’t require me to lose any paper.
To start with, I had a red piece of cardstock that I folded in half towards the inside (I did this later though). [does that even make sense?!?!]. It’s easier to see below. I used the paper cutter to cut blue cardstock in half vertically. This was glued down in the very middle of the red cardstock. Then I used the Cameo to make the actual invite part. This is identical to the first invite above (even the apple is identical). I glued this to the blue cardstock. I folded the red portion of the invite at this point.
The cover was identical to the cover above in the first invite. I was sure when I glued it, I left a little bit of room to easily slide the cover off so people didn’t have to rip it off.
And it’s all done! It pulled in various pieces of the party by using the apple and Snow White dress. And the colors were perfect too. And while it did take a while to assemble, I think it really gave the formal yet cute look we were going for!
