Music Party Invitations

September 8, 2010 at 9:01 am | Posted in Paper Designs, Parties & Holidays | 9 Comments
Tags: children's party, invitations, music themed party

I just finished designing the invitations for Jason’s upcoming fourth birthday party. It’s a guitar/music themed party, so I’m using records for the invitations. Since I’m pretty certain my son has never seen a record or a record player, I also bought a 1970s Fisher-Price record player to provide some context. Still working on finding records that aren’t scratched and play music we’re willing to listen to.

I got the idea for the invites from this post on Momtastic, which provides some great ideas for hosting a music-themed children’s party.

Here’s how I made the invitations:

Purchased a batch of Styx 45s on eBay (later found a few extras at Half Price Books).
Created a record sleeve by gluing two pieces of 7 3/8 inch square paper together along 3 edges.
In Illustrator, designed the front and back record label using a 3 1/2 diameter circle template. Also created a circle-shaped label to add to the record sleeve.
Printed all three of the circle labels (front record, back record, sleeve) and cut them out using a 3 1/2 inch circle paper punch (turned upside down so I could see the line of the circle).
Placed the label upside down on the record and turned over to draw the center circle onto the label. Used an exacto knife to cut out the center circle (Note: this was the hard part. For the remaining invites, I’m going to look for a small circle punch with a long extension). Repeated with the second record label.
Glued the labels to each side of the record and also glued the sleeve label.
Purchased 7 1/2 inch square vellum envelopes.

DIY: Record Label Template (based on the size of a 45 record)

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These are fab! Really creative!

Comment by dressage bridles— November 30, 2011 #

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How did you write on the template? it there a way to edit the template?

Comment by Desiree— December 5, 2011 #

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- Hi Desiree,
  You can edit/write on the templates by saving them to your computer and opening them up in a photo-editing software program. I use Photoshop, but a free program like Paint should work as well.
  
  Comment by juleed— December 5, 2011 #
  
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You did a wonderful job. How heavy should the paper be to glue on the record.? I think if you use regular paper the glue will be seen through the paper or am I wrong?

Comment by Jacquie Zaragoza Torres Galvan— September 14, 2012 #

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- Hi Jacquie,
  Yes, I think standard weight paper would be too thin. I used card stock, which covered the glue and the existing label beneath.
  Thanks!
  Julee
  
  Comment by juleed— September 15, 2012 #
  
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