:: Design - wedding shower invite

We're having a wedding shower for my soon-to-be sis-in-law tonight.

I designed the invitations.

I think they turned out pretty darn cute, if I do say so myself.

{although I did make a mistake and was too lazy to fix it again - - can you see?  if not, that's great!}

Not only am I excited to eat some delicious desserts,

but I'm also excited to meet the bride!

{unfortunately, because I live in another state, I haven't met her yet}

:: Picnik Tutorial - halloween invitation

Today I'll be showing you how to make this

cute, modern halloween invitation using www.picnik.com.

And it really is easy!

(or I probably wouldn't be showing you how to do it)

If you've been following me for awhile, you know I love picnik.com

Love that it's free.

Love that it's easy to work with.

I do have photoshop, but am still learning how to use it.

So in the meantime, I'm using picnik for the invite's I've made.

1. First go to picnik.com and upload some type of digital paper. I used the paper from here. (I have more free printables on my pinterest board here)

Just download to your computer and when you get to picnik, press "upload a photo" and choose the digital paper you want.

2. Once you upload it, your paper will be shown like this.

Now you just need to crop it to the size you want.

3. To the left of the screen, there are a bunch of edits. Go to "crop" and choose the size you want. (I chose 4x6) Then press "apply" (FYI: if you ever make a mistake, you can always press the "undo" button in the top right hand corner).

4. See the top white tab that says edit? Underneath it there are different things you can choose. Go to "stickers". A bunch of stickers will show up and choose "geometric". Click which shape you want and it will show on the screen, small and black. You can adjust the size and the color (in the box at the top right corner).

I chose the rectangle and made it grey.

5. Enlarge it.

6. I then chose another rectangle sticker and made this one white and fit it into the grey rectangle so now there's just a grey frame.

7. In the sticker section, they have a bunch of holiday stickers. I went to Halloween and chose a not-so-scary sticker.

8. I changed the size, color, and location.

Then under the white "edit" tab, go to "text" and write what you want.

(I used the GeosansLight font - love it)

9. Looks good! Just need to save.

10. Go to the white "save and share" tab at the top and press "save photo".

Now just print.

Yay! You're done!

That wasn't hard, right?

I know I'm not the best at explaining things,

so if you have any questions, please let me know!

I'll be linking to these parties here.