Tutorial: {A Valentine’s Day} Tea Party Invitation

My daughters and I are hosting a tea party in a few weeks and I wanted to share our invitations with you. Although these are quite pink and pretty darn girly, you can use the idea for any style invite! {Those pink rectangles on the last one are just there to cover up my address…not ready to give that out to blogland!}

I'm crazy about banners right now.  I modeled these after the Valentine's Day Banner I made a couple of weeks ago.

Materials needed:
Fancy printed craft/scrapbook paper
Solid card stock in coordinating color(s)
A printer {or nice handwriting}
Fancy edge scissors
Glue
Mini clothespins {my latest obsession}
Ribbon

Step 1:

Print out your wording on the solid card stock.

Step 2:

Cut a template triangle that fits over the wording.
{The rectangular pieces of white paper are just there to cover my address.}

Step 3:

Trace around each section of working using your triangular template and cut them out using fancy craft scissors.

Step 4:

Create a larger triangular template to use on your scrapbook paper.
To make a nice isosceles triangle {two longer equal sides and one shorter side} draw your short side first. Then find the middle of it using a ruler. My short side is 7 inches, so
the middle of mine is at 3 1/2 inches.  Make a little mark there.

Draw a line straight down from your mark, longer than you want the triangle to be.
And now draw a line from one of your corners to that middle line, making sure the new line you draw is LONGER than the original line you began with.  Mine was 7 inches.  So my longer side is going to be about 9 inches.

Do the same from the other corner to meet up with the middle line as well.

Now cut it out and there’s your template.

Step 5:

Using your larger template, cut out scrapbook paper pieces for your background.

I traced the triangles on the back of the scrapbook paper and drew them all out before cutting to try to fit the most in as possible {sharing sides wherever I could.}

Step 6:

Glue the wording triangle to the scrapbook paper triangle.

Step 7:

Use a mini clothespin {found at most craft stores} to attach the banner to a ribbon.

“Put on your fancy dress and borrow mommy’s pearls, then please come join us for tea with the girls!

Step 7:

Dab a little glue on the corners of the banner to hold it down to the ribbon {if you like.}

Step 8:

Rinse, Repeat!

If you make any invites like this, please leave a comment with a link below!  I’d love to see your creations.

You might also like:

My Valentine's Day Wreath

And my Valentine's Day Banner

I linked up at these great parties!