Are you throwing a baby shower for a friend? Perhaps you would like to save as much money as possible. Then making your own baby shower invitations might be the best bet for you. Plus, these unique invitations will be so much more adorable than the ones you can buy in stores. You can make these invitations easily in basic colors like pink, blue, or yellow, and carry out a straightforward theme. If you’d rather, though, you can get creative and use ornamental paper to go with your baby shower theme.

In order to make these invitations, you will need 8 1/2” by 11” card stock, colored or ornamental paper, ribbon, glue, and a paper punch if you would like.

If you decide to use card stock as the base of your baby shower invitations you will need to cut the card stock in half in order to get 2 invitations out of one piece of card stock. Otherwise, using blank cards are a good alternative. All you need do is to print the invitation wording onto the cards and spruce them up a bit. This is fast and simple.

If you choose to use blank cards, or find it hard to print onto your decorative paper, you can also print the wording on another paper, cut out your wording, and then paste it to the inside of the baby shower invitation.

In order to decorate your invitation, you just need to cut out some individual squares of decorated or attractive paper to glue to the outside of the cards. The paper should be 1/2″ smaller than your cards. If you would like to bring them to a print shop, they could do this for you. Otherwise, do it yourself. After the paper is cut small enough, glue it to the outside of the baby shower invitation. Try to make sure it is centered.

Finally, stick ribbon on the front of the invitations. First cut the piece of the ribbon just a little longer than the outside of the invitation. Next, you should put glue on the ribbon. Hold both ends of the ribbon in each hand and hold it directly over the baby shower invitation. Place it in a straight line across the card and press down hard.

At this time take a little bit of the same ribbon to make a small bow. Cut off any additional long ends. Fasten the bow with glue to the center of the ribbon already on the invitation. You might need to trim any extra pieces if they are hanging over the edge.

Note: In order to make this happen as easily as you can, you might want to have everything prepared beforehand (your papers, content to print onto the paper, ornamental papers, etc.) and bring it all to the print shop so they can copy and cut it for you. Remember, you won’t be spending money on printer ink either, which is much more costly than getting copies made.

If you would like to, you could have a little invitation manufacture party. Find some friends, have some snacks, and assign each person a task. Someone could slice the paper, another can fold the baby shower invitations, someone else could put together the paper, etc. You’ll be able to finish the baby shower invitations in a flash!