Your child's birthday is coming up. You know you want to have a big birthday party and invite all of his friends, but you also do not want to do the same old thing. Use your child's birthday as an opportunity to get creative: design the invitations. You can create and print your own invitations. Make those invitations personal by adding photos, either of your child or the children invited to the party. If you own a computer and a printer you can do this by yourself for free.
Instructions
1. Decide on a theme for your child's party. Use that theme idea to create your photo invitations.
2. Choose a picture of your child for the front of the card. Crop it and do any touch-ups that are necessary. Save the changes to the photo.
3. Import the photo into your card-making software or copy and paste the photo onto the invitation. (To copy and paste click on the actual photo, hit "Ctrl" and "C." Go back to your work page, click where you want to place the photo and click on "Ctrl" and "V.")
4. Add text to the front of your invitation. Use a font that matches with your party idea theme. Get creative and use the shaped text option to write at an angle, use 3-D or shadows, or whatever else your card-writing software allows you to do.
5. Insert clip-art characters on your invitation that match your party theme.
6. Save all the work you've done for the front of the card, since this has been the most labor-intensive section, and you do not want to lose your work.
7. Continue working on the inside information of the invitation. Make sure to include all necessary information such as the time, date, place, and any other special instructions such as bringing swimwear or sleeping bags for a slumber party. Add another photo in the same manner as in Step 3 if desired.
8. Save the information for the inside of the invitation.
9. Run a test print on scrap paper to make sure everything will prints out correctly. Make any adjustments, if necessary.
10. Print out as many invitations as you need.
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