Little Trucks Baby Shower Invitations

The retired stamp set, Little Trucks, is perfect for these baby shower invitations!  Grandbaby number 6 is due this coming July and we are preparing to have a baby shower for my daughter-in-law. she is having a boy, she has 3 girls ages 3,2,& 1 so all are excited for the appearance of a little brother. I am super excited because our current grandson will not have to play with only girls when they are all together.

My son said he would like the theme of the shower to be trucks & tractors so I went into my stash of retired stamps to get out “Little Trucks”. This set is perfect as it has several different tractors, trucks, a construction worker, and barricades which are all perfect for a little boy. I volunteered to do the invitations and party decorations and favors, all will be made from this stamp set.

I loved designing this invitation, but it did have it’s challenges.

You see, it takes me forever to design things on the computer and this task was no exception! I thought I had everything spaced correctly so I made copies on Whisper White cardstock and then stamped, & colored the images. Time to adhere the truck onto the fronts. Challenge #1! The words on 1/2 of them were too close to be able to put on the image. Solution: print out the words “Grab Your Hardhats” , trim and mount onto Basic Black and adhere where possible. SOLVED! See them towards the middle of the stack?

I chose this tractor for the back side of the invitation.

Isn’t it adorable? I used a combination of Stampin’ Write Markers and Stampin’ Blends(R) to color the images on the invitation.

Here’s a look at the rest of the back side. Can you spot my next challenge?

I didn’t discover this challenge until I had them all stamped,colored,assembled and putting the final detail on them.

 

Yep, it’s 2018 not 2017. I had two solutions for this one.

One was to change the 7 into an 8 and the other was to re-print the information and adhere it over the previous information. Both looked fine.

The final detail, and one of the benefits of making your own, was to cusomize the envelopes.

I will also be making a 2-page spread for the pictures from the shower.

If you are partaking in a shower, no matter what it is for, please consider making them yourself. There’s nothing like creating special things for the special people in your life. And, don’t forget to look at those stamps you haven’t used in a while like I did when creating these baby shower invitations from the Little Trucks stamp set.

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