Making toddler party invitations with only things that came to hand posed a slight challenge in this paper-poor house. However, a bit of hot-pink embroidered cotton-drill, a recycled paper shopping bag, a sewing machine, and jute twine produced pleasing results:
Apologies for the teensy tiny pictures. My phone only has a teensy tiny camera. The basic gist was:
- Cut out rectangle from brown paper bag.
- Cut slightly bigger rectangle from suitable fabric (one that is the same on both sides – ie cotton drill – is ideal, not prints unless you fancy doing something clever and sewing 2 bits together).
- Sew the two together a centimetre or so in from the border of the paper.
- Write invitation out with nice black pen.
- Allow birthday child to ‘help’ decorate with crayons
- Roll up and tie into a cylinder with a piece of brown string. Or embroidery thread. Or any string you have hanging around.
I was fortunate enough to have a lot of hot-pink cotton drill embroidered with stars in my fabric stash. As such, I made sure there was a central star on each invitation so that it could be seen when rolled up. It also meant that people thought I had hand embroidered them, since they were clearly homemade. If only!
They were reasonably labour intensive, but I only had to make six, so it wasn’t too taxing. I think paper and fabric works quite well together, don’t you?
September 17, 2009 at 6:43 pm |
Awesome!
I think what you are doing is so cool….
Paper bag party??? What exactly is that? And, am super curious if kids are getting into it?
September 20, 2009 at 11:59 am |
Wow, they look terrific!