How To: Candy Corn Halloween Party Invitations

Today I'm sharing a tutorial for cute and easy-to-make invitations for your Halloween party!

They feature the same happy candy corn design as the felt candy corn ornaments I shared last week. You can never have too many cute candy corn, right??

You could also make these as greetings cards to send spooky wishes to your friends.

You will need:

- the candy corn templates at the bottom of this post (I thought I'd save you the trouble of having to enlarge the pattern from last week's tutorial!).

- white, orange and yellow card (or paper)

- grey or other dark card

- scissors

- a pencil

- a glue stick

- a black marker or felt tip pen

- some scrap paper

- optional: scrap card

To make the invitations:

1. Turn the templates over. Use a pencil to trace around the templates, drawing the shapes onto the appropriate colour card. Then cut out each shape with scissors. Drawing round the shapes will have left some pencil marks on your candy corn pieces - when you glue these later, make sure to add the glue on the side with the marks so they'll be hidden on your finished invites.

Tip: If you're making lots of invites, glue your templates onto bits of scrap card (the card from an empty cereal box is ideal for this) and cut them out to make sturdy templates that are easy to draw around quickly.

2. Cut your grey card to size: I folded and cut an A4 piece of card into quarters to make A6 postcards.

3. Now it's time to stick the candy corn pieces onto the cards. Start with the bottom (yellow) piece and work upwards, leaving room below for your message and sticking the pieces so they're flush with each other.

Tip: I use scrap paper to protect my workspace when gluing - you can run the gluestick right along the edges of the shapes you're sticking without worrying about making a mess.

Your invites will now look something like this:

 

4. Use a black marker or felt tip pen to draw eyes and a smile on each of the candy corn, and to write "Party!" or "Come to our party!" or "Happy Halloween" along the bottom of the cards.

Tip: to avoid mistakes when positioning your text, you might want to write it in pencil first (for the first invite, at least) then write over it in pen and erase the pencil when the ink is dry. 

5. Write the details of your party on the back of your card or type up the info in a word processing program. Make a text box (with a narrow line framing it) that's slightly smaller than your cards and centre your text inside it. Then print out as many copies as you need, cut out the boxes and glue them to the back of your cards.

Click here to view the template sheet in a new window or tab. Make sure you're viewing it full size, then print at 100%. Please note that these templates are the correct size for A6 cards - if your card blanks are larger or smaller you may wish to resize the templates to fit.

This tutorial is for personal use only: you can use it to make as many candy corn cards as you want for yourself, but please don't make any for sale. You may borrow a couple of photos if you want to blog about this project, but remember to credit me and link back to this page on my blog, and do not reproduce my entire tutorial / share my templates on your site. Thanks!

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DIY Wedding Ideas with Felt + Washi Tape

The third and final project this week is actually several mini projects - a selection of crafty ideas using pretty washi tape and little felt hearts.

I designed them with a DIY wedding in mind, but you could also use these ideas for engagement or anniversary parties, or for girly birthday parties... any occasion you want to make extra special with a bit of crafty love and lots of matching/themed details.

The basic how-to goes like this:

1) Choose a pretty washi tape that matches your chosen felt colour, or a felt colour that matches your favourite washi tape! I used "deep pink" wool blend felt (from the range I sell in my shop) and cute polkadot tape from Papermash.

2) Cut out lots of felt hearts using the template from this project. (Check out this post for tips on cutting out small felt shapes).

3) Stick felt hearts and bits of tape to everything paper-based to do with your party :)

You can tear the washi tape to give a lovely rough-edged look, or cut the tape to be slightly longer than required and trim any excess with scissors. I turn the tags/card/etc over first and use the paper edge as a guide when cutting, for extra neatness.

The felt hearts can be stuck in place with a dab of craft glue or small pieces of double-sided sticky tape.

Here are a few ideas for ways to use the hearts + tape...

Mini invitations or "Save the Date" cards. I handwrote these, but you could type a page of invites (leaving space on the right for adding the decoration) and print them onto blank card... or write one in your best handwriting, scan it in, copy and paste to create a full page of ready-to-decorate invites.

Add a strip of tape to the envelope - either on the front, or use the tape as a decorative "seal" on the flap (washi tape peels off quite easily so make sure your envelope is properly sealed if you're sending it through the post!).

Place cards. More mini cards, with a small space to write a guest's name. 

Bags of Confetti or Favours for your guests. Fill mini glassine envelopes with confetti, or with sweets / other small favours and seal it with a piece of the washi tape (extra bonus points if the contents match the colours on your chosen tape!).

I filled my envelope with cute heart-shaped polkadot buttons from Big Fish - a mini envelope full of buttons and bits of ribbon would be a lovely party favour for a craft-themed birthday party.

Food Labels. Make sweet and simple labels for piles of sandwiches, cakes or other food you're serving at a buffet. Put the details of the food on the front, with a line of tape along the bottom, and then tear a small piece of tape and use it to fix a cocktail stick to the back. You could use clear sticky tape for the back if you prefer, but I quite like the idea of the back looking almost as cute as the front.

Gift tags. Finally, if you're hosting a party for someone and you've got gifts to wrap, why not make some pretty tags? You could also use these at a wedding if you're giving little gifts to your bridesmaids, etc. Use plain wrapping paper in colours picked out from the tape.

Decorate large tags with tape and a trio of hearts (plenty of room to write a special thankyou message on the back)...

... or decorate mini tags with a single felt heart. 

Please note: this tutorial is for non-commercial use only. You may borrow one or two photos if you want to blog about my projects but remember to credit me and link back to the original source, and do not reproduce entire blog posts on your site. Thanks! 

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