Construct your own tea party invitations with these three simple ideas. Tea party invitations should match the style of your tea party. Consider if you want to host a formal, whimsical, child tea party. Choose a tea party theme and party colors. All of these party details should help direct the look and feel of your tea party invitation. Read on to make your own teapot tea party invitation, a tea bag tea party invitation or make a formal invitation with an elegant quote.
Three DIY Ideas for Ideas for Tea Party Invitations
Teapot Tea Party Invitation
One of the most creative tea party invitations you can make also uses recycling techniques. Collect stray pieces of fabric, wrapping paper or scrapbook papers. Even colorful pages from magazines can be used for this paper craft.
Fold a piece of paper. Use the teapot template to make the shape of the invitation, with either the top or left side resting on the paper’s fold, to make an invitation that opens. Glue one large piece of decorative paper or recycled wrap to the front of the card and trim the excess with scissors. Or, glue on scraps on paper to cover the card, creating a whimsical and originally patterned tea pot.
Tea Bag Tea Party Invitation
The Tea Bag Tea Party Invitation is a simple and easy homemade invitation that can be made by anyone. Create a blank card on colored card stock. The invitation may be any size you choose.
Cut the card to look like a bag of tea. It should be a vertical rectangle with the two top corners trimmed off. Cut a piece of tan twine or packaging string and and staple it to the top of the card.
Attach a tea bag to the front of the invitation, preferable one that comes in its own paper wrapper. Write relevant tea party information inside.
Formal Tea Party Invitation
Use a thick, ivory card stock. Buy pre-made folded cards or fold your own, using a ruler. Cut a piece of vellum paper that is one inch smaller around the edges than the card itself.
Attach the vellum paper to the card stock by creating two small holes along the crease of the card stock. Line up the vellum on top of the thicker paper.
Thread silver or gold craft wire through the holes, from the inside of the card. Tie a knot in the wire and then thread a fancy bead through the two loose wires. Tie a another knot to secure the bead and cut off the excess wire.
Create another piece of paper to fit inside the card. Write all of the tea party invitation information on the card, which should not be attached to the card you just made. The layers of the card make it look elegant, and using the card stock and vellum simply to house the actual invitation add to the illusion.
Quotes you can use inside the formal tea party invitation:
“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things,” attributed to Chaim Potok.
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors,” Alice Walker.
“Where there’s tea there’s hope,” attributed to Arthur W. Pinero.
Mix and match the ideas for these three tea party invitations, and experiment with the different techniques to make your own one-of-a-kind tea party invitations.
Sources
Personal Experience
QuoteGarden.com, http://www.quotegarden.com/tea.html
ThinkExist Quotes.com, http://thinkexist.com/quotes/with/keyword/tea
