Sweet Sixteen

These are the colors , my costumer chose for her Sweet Sixteen Invitations. I had to designed something using black, white, red. I already had cardstock in these colors, but I wanted something with a pattern. Something that will make the design of the invitation more interesting. I found this lovely black and white paper from Doodle Bug Design, and absolutely fell in love with it. It had tehcolors that I needed and the pattern was very feminine. So now that I had all my papers together, I started brainstorming as to how I was going to combine them .

I always like to offer several options and let my costumer decide which one they like best. I always keep in mind my costumers' budget, and design something according to it.

These were the three designs I came up with. I combine all the different card stock and pattern papers, and also added a touch of silver . Three flowers with an acrylic crystal in the center , and couple of brads to hold my printed vellum and a silver elastic string were my embellishments.

Black card stock was cut to 9 x 4 inches

Red card stock was cut to 8.75 x 3.75 inches

The white and the printed velum were both cut at 3.50 x 8.50 inches

A lot of my invitations have this style, is not the only ones I do, but this style looks very elegant and you get a lot out of the 12x12 if that's what you are working with.

I created an embellishment with the pattern paper, I layered some of the solid colors and used the patter black and white last. I opened two tiny holes on the card stock and use a silver elastic string to tie this around the invitation. This way the embellishment can be easily slip on and off. I finish decorating it with the 3 flowers.

Fort his sample I did a red cover 8x9 inches and folded at 4 inches. On the inside of the invitation I used some corner punches on the white card stock only, to let the black one shoe. I did the same embellishment and in this case it helps keep the invitation closed.