dr. seuss birthday: invitation

most of the invitations for the babe's birthday have been delivered..

so i figured i'd share them here.

especially as it's pretty much the closest thing to a craft i've done in the last month.

there were a TON of cute invitations on etsy.

a TON.

i was having a really hard time narrowing one down..

i knew i wanted the cat in the hat on the invite,

and i ABSOLUTELY wanted the wording to reflect dr. seuss rhymes,

and i really wanted one that had everything in a dr. seuss font.

so as cute as all the etsy invites were..

i just wasn't head over heels in love with any of them.

i thought about enlisting the help of my cousin lisa,

who is a GENIUS with these things.

(here is her fb page: glitz by lisa)

i even called her & asked her if she could do something like i was wanting.

she agreed & asked that i send her some dr. seuss images that i liked.

but when i sat down & started googling..

i found THE PERFECT image.

it meant i could do it all myself!

ya see, i can't do all that fancy stuff in photoshop.

one, because i don't own it & two, because i'd have to learn how to.

i'm guessing that it's an image from a digital book..

but i knew i could make it work.

first i loaded it up to picnik

(if i haven't said it before, i'll say it now, it's SO worth the premium membership on this site!)

i used the cloning tool to remove the text.

i'm SURE there is an easier way...

but this was quick enough for me & i didn't have to ask for help.

i just picked a white spot on the page & started going over the text to remove it.

once that was done i resized my image to 5x7.

& saved it to my computer.

i found & downloaded the dr. seuss font from this site.

i opened up the saved file without the text in microsoft paint. 

created a text box, put in my wording, & saved the completed invite to my computer.  

i uploaded it to snapfish & ordered 5x7 prints.

with shipping i paid $20 for 26 invites.

(snapfish, even with shipping was cheaper than local stores for a 5x7)

now, that may seem sort of expensive, but i actually saved money.

most of the etsy invites ranged $12-$20 for just the digital file..

then i would have paid another $20 to get them printed.

and i honestly couldn't be more happy with how they turned out!

i got everything i wanted on one invite :)

besides the wording, i think my favorite part is the fact that in this cat in the hat image..

he's holding a birthday cake :)

have a great weekend! :)

we are off to nana's for our last sleep-away before school starts in a week!

xo-k

view the party food here
view the decorations here

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tidy mom

whipperberry

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