Invite guests to breakfast with cards featuring food-themed embellishments.
Whether you're organizing a breakfast for a bridal shower, birthday, family gathering or another special occasion, create eye-catching invitations to set the tone for the event. Use breakfast-themed images and text that not only convey the theme of the party and the pertinent details, but the formality of the meal, as well. Does this Spark an idea?
Breakfast Shapes
Design an invitation for a casual breakfast event that resembles a breakfast item, such as an over-easy egg or a glass of orange juice. Use a shape stencil or a clip art image to trace the shape onto a piece of colored card stock. Cut the image out and add detail with pieces of decorative paper, markers or colored pencils. Flip the card over and write the pertinent breakfast information on the back.
Child's Artwork
Let your children create accents for the front of the breakfast invitations if you're holding the event to celebrate a milestone such as a first birthday or kindergarten graduation. Cut a piece of white card stock to attach to the front of a blank card with a glue stick or double-sided tape. Provide an assortment of crayons, markers, colored pencils and glitter glue that the children can use to design seasonal or food-related images on the card stock, such as flowers for a spring breakfast or a whimsical plate of bacon, eggs and toast.
Use a font that resembles a child's handwriting to include breakfast details such as the time, date, location and RSVP specifics on a piece of card stock affixed inside the card with a glue stick or double-sided tape.
Food-Themed Accents
Create handmade invitations featuring food-themed stickers, card stock die cuts or chipboard accents sold at scrapbooking or craft stores. Affix a layer of decorative paper that resembles a tablecloth on the front of the blank card with double-sided tape. Adorn the center of the card with stickers of a breakfast plate and silverware or a chipboard shape of a cup of coffee, for example.
Design a border inside the card by placing tiny fruit, food and utensil-shaped stickers all the way around it to surround important information about the breakfast event.
Family Photo
If you're hosting the breakfast event as a family gathering for loved ones to reconnect, adorn the front of the invitation with a food-related family photo. Find an image of your ancestors sitting around the dinner table, your great-grandmother preparing a meal in the kitchen or your siblings helping with the Thanksgiving feast, for example. Use a color copy machine to reduce or enlarge the image so it will fit on the front of a blank card and make one copy for each invitation you need to send.
Print the breakfast details inside the card, along with requests or "assignments" for the types of foods relatives can bring if the breakfast is a potluck.
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