Creating 1st birthday party invitations can be especially fun and cost effective. There are many options for simply and quickly creating an invitation that you can be proud of as a keepsake.

The best part about creating 1st birthday party invitations is that this will be one of the last times you get to make the choices for your child. When creating these invitations remember that you will want something that you can keep in their baby book for all time.

First you will want to choose a theme for the invitations. You have probably already decided on what theme to use for the party whether it be a cute girl or boy theme, a children’s classic character theme or perhaps simply elegant. You will want to be sure that your invitations reflect that theme. One of the more popular birthday invitations these days is the postcard invitation. These can be easily created using the mailing/labels feature in you’re the tools of your word processing program on your computer. This will lay out the first one for you and once you have completed it you can copy and paste it to make a full page and then print away.

You can obtain the images you want to use from the internet for free. Most of them will allow for personal usage, but be sure you know the rules for the images you choose. You can also use a scanned or digital image of your child. You can even take a handprint of your little one with washable ink, scan that image into your computer and use that as your design base. Be sure when placing the images that you leave room for all the party information and if they will be sent to your guests by mail, leave space for mailing address and postage.

Card stock can be purchased perforated or you can simply buy colorful sheets and cut them to size. If you are planning to cut them down to size yourself you will want to choose to show gridlines on your work so that it will give you the border of the postcards making it more likely you will have straight edges. Make sure to run a test print before you print an entire batch.

Your options are limitless when it comes to designing the 1st birthday party invitations for your little one. Do a little research on your computer and see what type of style you like. Enjoy the process.