Bebe shower invitations

I haven't been doing too many artsy craftsy projects recently. I kind of got burned out after my wedding. This blog is pretty much my main creative outlet, besides drawing class.

But since my friend Vicky is having her first bebe, I decided to make the invitations for her shower myself. I don't have a close up of the final product, but in the picture below, you can get the idea of what it looked like. The completed invitation is on the bottom left.
I dug up my old tools (top center) and put them to work. My cousin Cyrus got me the decorative paper cutter on the right. It made the wavy edge on the matchbook booklet enclosure, which I bought from Paper-Source. If there was a Church of Paper, I would be all over that.

The completed main invitation is on the far left. The white insert I printed out on a color printer, cut to size, and punched little holes in with my tools (top center). I used the orange ribbon to secure the insert to the booklet.

The little baby foot prints on the invitation insert are rubber stamps with embossing powder on them. I used a Distress Ink stamp in "Mustard" and a "Worn Lipstick" colored embossing powder and then pointed the heating gun (the purple thing on the bottom center) at it so that the powder would sort of melt onto the ink and create a little bit of texture. The pink and mustard color together made a blended orangey color that matched the ribbon.

There was a time when I liked to over decorate things and I would have had little baby footprints all over the card and envelope. But that time has passed and I like things clean and simple now.