Berry Sweet Birthday Invitations

Invitations for Emma's 5th Birthday party are all done and being delivered tomorrow. Since they are being hand-delivered, I wanted to do something different than just envelopes. I found these drawstring bags on clearance at Toys R Us and thought they would work out great! They bags are usually used for goody bags, but I plan on using something else to send the party favors home in.
Each bag includes the invitation, a small print-out of directions to the party (not shown) & 3 strawberry bonbon candies (they are wrapped to look like strawberries). I printed a tag with each child's name and attached it to the outside of the bag with pink ribbon. We invited Emma's pre-school class, a couple of neighborhood friends and realtives for a grand total of 25 invitations.I purchased the blank note cards at Michaels and paper pieced the invitation. I was lucky enough to find a Strawberry Shortcake 50 sheet notepad at Big Lots for only 50¢ and cut out the images from the notepad for the front of the invitations. The graphics are really cute and the cost so much less than if I had to print them myself. The butterflies are cut from a single sheet of scrapbook paper & the grass is just green cardstock. I had to cut a new center for the sun because the one on the notepad had some writing.

I used pop dots to give a 3-D look to the bow, sun, butterfly & grass. I also used a glitter pen to color the strawberry & ribbon on the hat and the dots on the butterflies. It ended up being a little more work than I had originally anticipated (isn't it always???), but I was able to work on the pieces after the kids were in bed at night while I was watching my favorite fall shows!
The inside of the invitation reads, "Strawberry Shortcake and her friends are celebrating a berry special day ~ It's Emma's 5th Birthday!" I listed the "Place" as "Strawberry Land" with the address of the party (our house). The strawberry is a part of a clip that I found at the dollar store - 10 clips for $1. When I took the spring mechanism out, I was left with 20 cute plastic strawberry embellishments!

I apologize for the fuzzy photos - I could not get a clear picture of the invitations to save my life. If you click on the pictures, the larger version seems to be less blurry.