Scare Mail
Frightening fetes call for equally spirited invitations. This Halloween, lure partygoers to your haunted house with a bone-rattling skeleton.
The creatures have movable body parts, attached with miniature brads, which make them compact to send and spook-tacular to receive.
Invitation How-To
Get the Skeleton Template.
1. Color-photocopy templates at 125 percent (or download images and print) onto white heavyweight matte paper. Cut out parts with scissors. (For thicker invitations, affix copies to black card stock with spray adhesive, then cut out parts.)
2. At joints, make holes using a microhole punch. Secure limbs on top of body with white miniature brads.
3. Write details using a white-gel-ink pen. Fold in parts; enclose card in a #10 envelope.
See instructions for the Owl Invitation.
Like another person commented - the arms are wrong. So I fixed this before I made them - love it - they turned out great. I found black envelopes at Hobby Lobby.
-Christina
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These turned out really cute. Instead of special ordering, or running all over town searching, we spray-painted business sized envelopes matte black. It was my sister's fabulous (and inexpensive) idea. Each envelope was unique, and looked like the night sky. Very cool!
I, too, tweaked these invitations (in InDesign) to add my party info before printing.
Does it bug anyone else that the thumbs are on the wrong side of the hand? (Maybe I'm just too OCD).
Actually it is paper-source.com
You can get the envelopes at Papersource.com
Find the microhole punch and mini brads at any scrapbooking store.
where do you get the #10 envelope.
where do you find the microhole punch and mini brads?
I altered the text on it to send to someone with a Halloween birthday and made a black envelope from construction paper. Instead of buying mini-brads I attached the arms and legs with tiny pieces of very thin jewelry wire which worked great.
Easiest "handmade" invitations! The black cardstock placed to the backing was a great idea! Martha's ultra fine glitter added thinly around the edge made for a 3-D effect. Too cute!
These are the easiest invitations to create. The template works out great! I glued the template to the back of black card stock and then cut out the skeleton. Such a fun idea! THANKS!