I have no idea where the last year went. Zero, zip, nada. I can't believe in a few short weeks, Kalia will already be a year old. Sigh...
I'm slightly obsessed with taking pictures of Kalia. Before she got mobile, if she was throwing a fit, I could whip out my camera and say "smile", and she'd oblige. She'd stop whatever cry fest she was having, and smile for the camera. I don't exactly know how you train your baby to do that, I just chalk it up to be obsessed with taking pictures of her. She's a pretty smiley baby anyways, so I guess that helps. Err...toddler...sigh...
For Kalia's 1st birthday invitations, I wanted to incorporate my obsession with her cuteness into the invites, but I didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for them. So I made them myself :
Sorry for blurring out our home info - sometimes my life is like a fishbowl on here as is :-), which probably scares most of you away from wanting to show up unannounced, but I do have one darn cute kiddo, so ya just never know!
I just took pictures from every month of Kalia's life so far, starting with month 0 and ending with month 11. I resized them down to 1.05" High by 1.57" wide. I messed around with the sizing of the images until I got 6 across that would fit in a standard 4 1/8" x 9 1/2" envelope, which I already had a ton of on hand. I fit two of these on one sheet of thick cardstock 8 1/2" x 11" paper.
For anyone interested in creating the same sort of invite, my margins were : left and right : 0.5", top : 0.38", and bottom 0.13".
I've got so many decoration ideas floating around in my head. I have no idea how many I'll actually manage to get done, but I'll be sure to share what I do with you guys!
So what do you guys think of her invites? Do you guys DIY invites or order them out? I'm not gonna lie, figuring out the pictures and sizes took a bit more time than I thought it would, but it just cost me postage and ink to send out. With this down to one income ordeal, every penny counts!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Happy Monday!
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I'm slightly obsessed with taking pictures of Kalia. Before she got mobile, if she was throwing a fit, I could whip out my camera and say "smile", and she'd oblige. She'd stop whatever cry fest she was having, and smile for the camera. I don't exactly know how you train your baby to do that, I just chalk it up to be obsessed with taking pictures of her. She's a pretty smiley baby anyways, so I guess that helps. Err...toddler...sigh...
For Kalia's 1st birthday invitations, I wanted to incorporate my obsession with her cuteness into the invites, but I didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for them. So I made them myself :
I just took pictures from every month of Kalia's life so far, starting with month 0 and ending with month 11. I resized them down to 1.05" High by 1.57" wide. I messed around with the sizing of the images until I got 6 across that would fit in a standard 4 1/8" x 9 1/2" envelope, which I already had a ton of on hand. I fit two of these on one sheet of thick cardstock 8 1/2" x 11" paper.
For anyone interested in creating the same sort of invite, my margins were : left and right : 0.5", top : 0.38", and bottom 0.13".
I've got so many decoration ideas floating around in my head. I have no idea how many I'll actually manage to get done, but I'll be sure to share what I do with you guys!
So what do you guys think of her invites? Do you guys DIY invites or order them out? I'm not gonna lie, figuring out the pictures and sizes took a bit more time than I thought it would, but it just cost me postage and ink to send out. With this down to one income ordeal, every penny counts!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. Happy Monday!
Wow, I can't believe she's one already. I've been following you since you were pregnant with Kalia and designing her nursery. Time sure does fly! My Little Man is turning one in June!
ReplyDeleteI know, me neither! Thanks for following along, it's crazy how quickly it does fly! Best of luck with your little Man!!
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