Lindsay and I, well, mostly Lindsay finished the baby shower invitations over the weekend. They look outstanding.
Neat, huh? My only regret is that it doesn’t say, “it’s a small world” on the invitation anywhere. I think people get it, though.
The basis for this idea is this invitation that I designed for my cousin’s wedding. But how much better is this – using the double doors AS DOORS and opening the exterior of the it’s a small world attraction to the symbolic inside of the ride. It’s like being there… in invitation form. I wish I could make it play the song.
So… here’s the play by play. I drew all the little kids, drew the exterior of the attraction, and drew the clock face. Tom scanned all of my pencil drawings and since my computer DIED on my terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day… I told Lindsay all of my ideas and she colored everything in.
Original Sketch – This is my original drawing of the ride exterior.
Lindsay emailed me printable .pdf files that I could print from my lesser laptop. I bought photo paper and printed the invite interior. On a second sheet, I printed 2 sets of doors. The dimensions of the door invitations are the same as an 8.5″ x 11″ sheet folded in half, so the inside is borderless… the one thing I don’t hate about my evil printer is that it does print borderless when you can get it to print. Instead of folding it in half, you fold the left and right quarters in. Anyway, it makes measuring and designing pretty easy.
Here are the door pieces that I printed, cut, and glued to the outside of the invitation doors.
Putting it all together.
Shutting the doors.
AND VOILA!
Piles of finished product.
That La Kid 
The invitation is Amazing. Just like YOU. Wow. I could hear the music in my head just by looking at it. Great job!
I love your invitation! I’m trying to do a IASW shower invite and came across yours. I usually try making my own but LOVE yours. Is there anyway i could just purchase yours?
I’m sure we can work something out. Are you interested in finished, ready-for-mailing invitations, or downloading the files and putting them together yourself?
Oh, and by the way – I’m tickled to death that you love ’em!
P.S. Here’s more small world inspiration for you: http://pinterest.com/wendyjla/it-s-a-small-world/