Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Rock-Climbing Party Invitations



Maude's birthday party invitations came out just right. It turns out Maude is a natural and excellent and fearless rock climber. And there can't possibly be a better time to show-off than your birthday party, when the focus is supposed to be all about you anyway. So Maude's birthday will be hosted by the local climbing gym this year.


I printed the invitations 3-up, length-wise on 8.5 x 11 paper, with party details on the back. I used some spare earthy sheets I had on hand, and one pink sheet for the girliest invitees. The invitations say: It would really rock if you came to Maude's birthday party. Invitee names were added with Sharpie.


The gym requires waivers, so I printed those on yellow sheets taken from a legal pad. I thought that was a cute touch (the legal on legal paper) and practical for two reasons: 1) it will stand out from general papers and hopefully won't get lost, and 2)
when I went to print the waivers, I was out of regular paper.


The waivers were folded in thirds, stacked underneath the invitation strips, and then attached to rocks (gathered in the backyard) with some twine we use for yardwork. Since most invitees live within walking distance from our house, delivery should be a cinch.

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17 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

cute! I can't wait to post a link to this at the ClimbNasville.com blog that we've just started. thanks! -carrie

7:31 AM  
Blogger Kristi Brooke said...

we did a rock climbing party too, but by the time the invites were out i had then come up with the rock invite idea... this is so great.
clean simiple lines, I love it.

7:32 AM  
Blogger mamalang said...

Those are so cool. Really, can you adopt me?

8:49 AM  
Blogger Ben and Laura said...

How clever!!!

9:20 AM  
Blogger Girl con Queso said...

So clever. What a fantastic invite! And you know how I love the invites.

9:22 AM  
Anonymous robin k said...

Amazing - YOU rock, Gabby.

10:19 AM  
Blogger Bek said...

I was going to tell you about Kristi Brook's idea of the rock climbing party (she has great pictures on her blog)... What a great idea.

11:04 AM  
Anonymous Chelsea said...

Love these!!

11:44 AM  
Blogger liz s said...

so awesome. where did you get all the rocks?

11:53 AM  
Blogger jordan said...

These are so awesome Gabby.

12:03 PM  
Anonymous jared said...

nice work gab, these are cool.

12:53 PM  
Anonymous designingmama said...

I did almost the same thing for my son's rock climbing party two weeks ago, except I wrote the party info directly on the rocks graffiti-style. The party was a huge hit. I made a rock-climbing tower cake that was easy and cool looking.

I love your site!

2:24 PM  
Blogger holly said...

you are so clever. they turned out lovely!

6:49 PM  
Blogger Lindsey said...

So awesome, Gabby! I love it. What a fun idea!

9:19 PM  
Blogger Barb said...

The legal on legal is perfect. Thanks for the inspiration!

12:22 AM  
Anonymous laurie said...

Another one I missed. Gah! These are outstanding, in concept and execution. Just brilliant. You're such a rockstar ('scuse the pun).

11:13 AM  
Anonymous Helen said...

I was searching for a place to order personalized invitations online and found several that I want to tell you about, Custom Party Invitations, Christmas Party Invitations, Printed Mardi Gras Party Invitations and Personalized Birthday Invitations for Children and Adults. These sites have cute and unique party invitations for all occasions. You can use my own wordings, and they have lots of sample party verses and sayings for me to use. I ordered from Express-Invitations, and party invitations cards were beautiful.

5:14 PM  

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