One Year Invites

I just finished the invitations to Max's first birthday last night, although time wise, I am way off according to invite etiquette. I am pretty sure you are suppose to send them out 3-4 weeks in advance, but they turned out pretty cute. I picked up some recycled blank note cards and envelopes at the craft shop and stumbled upon Martha's acrylic stamp kit. You can customize your own stamp! They have probably been around forever but I LOVE THIS!
I used it to stamp the back of all the envelops, gave them just the right touch. Take note...don't scrimp on the ink pad, the pigmented inks work best even though most brands cost around $9. I bought the washable $3...don't!

Things I wanted to know when I bought this...

1. Letters are reusable, you can peel and stick forever there is no adhesive. They just cling on.
2. Spacing is kinda off as each letter has different size borders, you can cut the a bit to adjust this.
3. Get the good pigment ink pad for more even coverage!
4. Martha's minions' include an optional handle, I don't know now if I would attach this. It looks pretty but I don't think you really need it. Also I think you are suppose to attach it to the smooth side and I attached mine to the side with the guides. It said to hold the glue for 10-15 seconds, which was more like 5 seconds....BONDED FOR LIFE!

I already used them again for little gift tags for gifts for the preschool kids, beats my chicken scratch and makes you look like a super fancy crafty mom!