Stellar Invitations

I was excited enough about the invitations I made for my son's rocket/space themed birthday, that I thought that they deserved their own post.  I will be posting about the rest of the party, soon.  I designed these to fit in a standard letter-sized envelope.  I used the space background with a tone-on-tone countdown, highlighting the #4, since Trenton was turning 4.  I put Trenton's face in the window of the rocket.  I made sure the party info (written in white to blend in with the smoke from the rocket) would mostly be covered by the rocket when assembled.  

I went ahead and sent the file to my local OfficeMax to print, since I would be using so much red and black ink, and wanted it to look nice, and had them print it on a heavy card stock.  I cut out each rocket.  I punched tiny holes in the top and bottom of each invitation.  Then using my husband's old fishing line taped to the back of the rocket, we made a pull string that would move the rocket up and down.  I put a "pull" label on the back of the invitation, to avoid any confusion.  

Actually, we hand delivered these, and my son was so excited that he took most of them out of their envelopes and showed the guests personally what to do.

CREDITS:  Lisa Warren @ LDD--moon.  Lisa Sisneros at LDD--Cracked Alpha Rub-on, Ami Collofello (LDD apprentice kit)--paper, rocket (re colored), Fonts: Fontdinerdotcom Sparkly, & Westminster