Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great weekend! My weekend
was kind of bitter sweet because I got to spend the entire weekend with my
boyfriend but the night before I was heading over to his house I got a back
spasm and I could barely even move—so while I did get to spend lots of quality
time with him I mostly unable to even move, LOL—so embarrassing. Moving on,
these days are getting so busy and today I wanted to share what’s going on in
my house—as far as invitations and decorations go. I also got a few
questions as to how I was able to create my Thanksgiving invitations and I
wanted to share a quick tip as to how I was able to get all the different fonts
sized exactly the way I needed them to.
So, I used my trusty Kraft card stock sheets for the base of
the card. I used a standard 8 ½” x 11” sheet and basically just cut it in half
length wise at 4 ¼” then cut those two sheets down length wise again at 5 ½” .
This gives you four perfectly sized card stock bases at 4 ¼” 5 ½”. Next I used
this really cute lace pattern paper from Michaels—it’s my fav! I think the last
time I went I bought all of this paper the store had because it was on sale,
hehe. Sorry to anyone who wanted some from the store in Hacienda Heights, LOL.
So what I did with the lace paper, is cut a few pieces at 4” x 5 ¼”. Doing this
leaves a quarter inch boarder. Then I set those aside and went to my computer
to create the invitation information.
I mentioned in another blog post that the theme of this year’s
Thanksgiving dinner is ‘lace’ and that the other colors I wanted to incorporate
were going to be light greens and light oranges—so I jumped onto Etsy to buy
some paper straws. I know that I’m using these for drinks, but I want to use
them for other things as well—so we’ll send what I end up doing with them.
I also purchased some glassine treat bags; and, again I’m
not sure what I’m going to do with these—but it’s always nice to have them on
hand, hehe.
...I thought about using the glassine bags as envelopes. What do you think? They look super cute right? Next I want to quickly share the tool I used to adjust all the font sizes:
I always like using different fonts when making some quick
and easy invitations, and at times I get emails asking how I go about getting
the fonts perfectly sized, and I basically just use the lasso tool. I select
it, right click on the section I want to adjust, and drag it either up, down,
left, or right. Once I'm satisfied with how it all looks I just copy paste that entire image onto a 8.5" x 11" new sheet of paper and print that out (so I get 4 invitations per sheet). Well, I hope this helped, and I'm so looking forward to sharing everything else we're doing for Thanksgiving this year! I think this will be my first time sharing Thanksgiving preparations and it's so much fun sharing these ideas with you all!
