Invitation Preparation

There are two birthday's in our household in July.

Monster will be three July Fourth and 

Roly Poly will be turning one at the end of the month.

Thus, I am in the midst of invitation preparation.

Although Monster's party is first,

and I am mailing the invites out today, 

I am going to share with you 
Roly Poly's invitations in this post.

His party is going to be bigger since it is his first one,
and there will be several posts 

covering party projects.

For Monster's Party I am planning on doing one or two 
posts to cover it all.

Okay, so on with the show.

I had Roly Poly's invitations made by my friend Melissa

of Bella Artista.

Check out her other work.

She is so much fun to work with and has great ideas.

This was my second time working with her.

So she created these beauties based on Roly Poly's high chair.

You know you love the blacking out of info. 

Yes, we are having an owl theme.

Aren't they cute?

Well, we planned from the beginning that after printing the invites 

I was going to corner round the edges to soften them up and mimic the center design.

Melissa had done something similar in the Fall for her kiddos birthdays and it turned out soooo great.

Here are the before and afters.

Isn't it amazing how such a small detail 
makes such a BIG difference.

I am glad to have another small thing 
out of the way for his party,

especially because the next two weeks
 have to be dedicated to Monster's

Pirate Party on the Fourth.

Nothing says Fourth of July like Pirates after all.