Thread: Check Out My Halloween Invitations!

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Ok, I am finally done with my Halloween invitations. They took me a while but I think they turned out pretty cool. I know if I received this in the mail there is no way I would miss this party! I like to do invitations to event for fun so this kind of stuff is right up my ally anyway! Plus I love Halloween!!

I am planning a "Witches and Warlock Ball Honoring the Newest Little Warlock" theme baby shower for my sister. She is not the traditional type person and I think this type of party will serve her well. It took me forever to even come up with this theme as I didn’t want to offend anyone. (I’ve read some post where one girl posted something similar with a rosemary’s baby theme and other guest on the forum totally went off on her on how inappropriate it was for having this kind of shower and if they received an invitation there is no way they would go! - I don’t want that!)

So anyway, thanks to BevAnn on this forum she gave me a GREAT idea on how to do little spell book invites. I took her idea one step forward and created what you see in the pictures below. Since there is a max on how many pics I can load here are a few that will give you an idea.











Let me know what you guys think! Thanks!

Absolutely beautiful! But.. I don't want to seem trivial, that seems to be kinda pricey? Care to share some insight? Maybe a break down of the contents and prices, etc.

The invitation is fantastic!! You obviously went to a lot of work to put it together, no way I'd miss it if I received it either!!

OOOH I love these! Very nice and I like the little skull beads on the string around the bag, nice touch

Thank You! Let’s see….I did spend more on these invites than I did for regular store bought – but I think it was worth the extra money to give my guest a little treat to entice them to come to my party. Just to give you an idea here is a break down. I did 50 invites in total and took me about 2 hours a day for 1 week to complete.
• For the actually Spell Book the cost wasn't that much. I used lunch sacks which I picked up at the dollar store - a 100 for $1. The torn pages I just used regular copy paper that I soaked in coffee. I had these ingredients already. The most time consuming part was tearing the pages and burning the edges of the lunch saks.
• The moss as box filler was a $1 a bag at the dollar store. I bought 5 bags for a total of $5.
• The burlap sacks that hold the potion bottle was $2 a yard at the fabric store and I used 2 yards which was $4.
• The Beads I found online and spent $15 for 50 skulls and 50 black bones
• The jute string was $3 for a ton of this at the craft store. I still have a bunch left!
• The potion bottles I got online and spent $15
• The potion inside the bottles was loose tea and spent $10
• The box to ship in, again found online and they were $15 for 50
Total cost on ingredients $70. The shipping was the priciest part…I spent about $60 on postage.
Total cost about: $130. It seems like a lot but I did a lot of shopping over time to get these.

Good job! Will I get one? :-)

Awesome job they look amazing

those are fantastic!

Wow, those are great! I'm sure your guests will love getting them!

Awesome.. simply awesome. A lot of time went in to those and it deffinitely shows