Invitations Question?

[Terry36]

My daughter wants a pottery party this year so I have been looking for invites. So far I have only located this one which depicts a diverse child.

http://www.amyadele.com/party-invitations/girls/girls-pottery-party-invitation.htm

All the others include caucasian girls only. Where do you buy your invitations?

Thanks

 

[Banana magic]

The past two years I have made my children's invitations myself with some clip art relevant to the theme and card stock paper. I just finished one for a chocolate making party with a Webkinz theme.

 

[Banana magic]

Sorry, posted twice.

 

[jckdisneybound]

I've done the same thing, just made them myself. Sorry I couldn't help.

 

[snomofinn]

Those are cute invitations. There is a place online called "birthday in a box" they have a very nice website that has some invitations that you might like. Good Luck!

 

[tweedlemom]

If you are only having a few party guests and don't mind hand delivering the invitations, go to the craft store, buy a couple of little pottery pots and hand write the invite information on them! It will make for a cute keepsake and will be fun to deliver!

 

[WillCAD]

You could also create your own invitation using Microsoft Word, Publisher, or Powerpoint, and add your DDs actual pic to it, plus any clip art you can find, pics of some pottery work your DD may have done in the past, or even some of her own crayon artwork. This would make it personalized to her and allow you total creative freedom over the invitation.

 

[dsnymoners]

I just looked at those invitaitons for my dd's bday party. I did the personalize and then preview then if you copy and paste it into word it will let you save it so you can print out your own.!!!

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

I've done a few pottery parties for my kids, I go to Party City and pick up some stationery that has paintbrushes on it and then make a funny blurb about how we'll be "painting up a storm at yadda yadda pottery place", with microsoft word and then run the paper through the printer to print it out. Easy and cheap, but pretty.

 

[Terry36]

Thanks everyone for the ideas.

Now what type of party favors are/did you give out or was the pottery they painted their gift? I am concerned because they will not be able to take it home the day of the party; they will get it a week later.

 

[clh2]

Terry - when my DD had her pottery party, I did not give out gift bags, due to them getting their glazed pottery piece back. And...it was perfect timing because DD's thank you notes (I made them from the same clip art I e-mailed to you) were done, so the friends got their thank you notes at the same time as thier pottery.
clh2

 

[Kickapoo Joie Juice]

Terry - when my DD had her pottery party, I did not give out gift bags, due to them getting their glazed pottery piece back. And...it was perfect timing because DD's thank you notes (I made them from the same clip art I e-mailed to you) were done, so the friends got their thank you notes at the same time as thier pottery.
clh2

Yep, did the exact same thing, added the notes to the pottery that they painted in a cute little paper bag tied up with ribbons...

 

[bellebuzzandpooh]

You might check etsy. I love buying cards there.

 

[Terry36]

Terry - when my DD had her pottery party, I did not give out gift bags, due to them getting their glazed pottery piece back. And...it was perfect timing because DD's thank you notes (I made them from the same clip art I e-mailed to you) were done, so the friends got their thank you notes at the same time as thier pottery.
clh2

Yep, did the exact same thing, added the notes to the pottery that they painted in a cute little paper bag tied up with ribbons...

okay

I have a few more questions:

When making invitations, what do you do for envelopes? sorry if this is a crazy question.

How did you deliver the pottery to the kids? Did they pick up @ your house or did you meet the parents somewhere? did you hand out a card with pick up instructions or did you just tell them?

What did you serve? I would like the party to be between 3 - 5 so we do not need real food. I definately want a cake or cupcakes, water and juices. Did you feed the adults?

 

[DMRick]

I just looked at those invitaitons for my dd's bday party. I did the personalize and then preview then if you copy and paste it into word it will let you save it so you can print out your own.!!!

You may not realize it, but that would be against copyright law. It's easy enough to make your own and use any card program, Word, MS Publisher, etc for graphics. I'm thinking the person selling these needs to put a big sample on her items.

 

[clh2]

okay

I have a few more questions:

When making invitations, what do you do for envelopes? sorry if this is a crazy question.

How did you deliver the pottery to the kids? Did they pick up @ your house or did you meet the parents somewhere? did you hand out a card with pick up instructions or did you just tell them?

What did you serve? I would like the party to be between 3 - 5 so we do not need real food. I definately want a cake or cupcakes, water and juices. Did you feed the adults?

I use the greeting card envelopes from OfficeMax. But I pretty much buy them in bulk because I make a lot of handmade cards. Any office supply store will usually have smaller packs of envelopes available. I think most copy shops would have single envelopes available too. The 2 most common sized envelopes for greeting cards are 5.75" x 8.75" and 4.375" x 5.75". The first size fits an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper folded in half, and the smaller size fits a 8.5 x 11 piece of paper folded into 1/4's.

We dropped the pottery off at each child's house, but it wasn't too inconvenient for me to do that over a couple of days.

At my DD's party, they specifically did 1/2 of the project before lunch, then lunch, then the other 1/2 of the project, then cake, then presents. It was very organized. I brought in subs, grapes and chips for lunch, as well as soda and milk. So, for us, providing lunch was part of the party. In your situation, I would just leave it at cake and the beverage. The pottery store we were at was VERY particular about not eating and painting at the same time. The "eating lunch/cake" table was separate from the painting table, and if the girls moved from 1 table to the other, they needed to wash their hands in between. They did this for safety reasons. So - I really wouldn't worry about not having any snacks.

 

[bellebuzzandpooh]

You can also buy the basic envelopes at WalMart in the craft and cardmaking section.