Cuddly Animal Invites

It's that time of year again, for me...birthday invitation time!  My youngest still LOVES Mickey, but we are branching out a bit this year.  His newest obsession is Go, Diego, Go.  So we are having an animal rescue party.  I knew that I had to find a way to use some of my favorite svgs from SVGCuts.com, the Cuddly Animals collection.

Since this party is just for family I only needed 7 invitations.  I made one more to put in my son's baby book.  Rather than make all the cards the same I chose to do a different animal on each one.  More fun for me.  :)

I knew I wanted to print the title directly onto the cards.  So I made a file in Photoshop with the appropriate dimensions.  I used the type tool to add my title.  Then I did a search for free animal print digi paper.  I added some animal print and clipped it to the title.  For a tutorial on how to do this see this post here.  Clipping works the same if you are working with a shape (as in the tutorial) or with text.  Just be sure you use a bulky font so that you can see your paper.

I also created a file for printing the inside of the invite.  This time I just used brown for the text, no fancy clipping.  I had a TON of problems getting my printer to print on the size card I had (6.5x10 when laying flat).  At one point I had to walk away so I wouldn't damage my equipment!  :)  In the end I had to trick my computer into thinking my cards were actually 8.5x11 and I finally got it to work.

Hippo

Monkey

Zebra

Elephant

Giraffe

Gorilla

Tiger

Lion (I'm keeping this one!)

On each animal I inked the edges and popped up the feet and nose for depth.  Many animals also got hit with some dry embossing.  It was a lot of fun assembling each Cuddly Animal!

I'm off to go address the invites and get them in the mail!  And then I need to figure out what the heck we are going to do for this party.  :)  I'll post more in a few weeks when I've got it all figured out!