Spookily Good Halloween Party Invitations

Time to start some serious Halloween party prep. Halloween is fast approaching and you need to tidy up your guest list and fill out the party invitations otherwise you will end up on your own. So how do you make the best impression on your friends and family to convince them that YOURS is the only party they should be attending this year?

In our associated articles on pirate and princess party invitations, we have tried to convey that the party begins when you receive the invitation itself. It should convey enthusiasm and make your guest really cry out for their closest pen to respond with. Poorly thought out invitations mean that the rest of your party skills will follow the same pattern. And great invitations don’t have to be expensive in anything but imagination. The most important thing is the understanding of the general topic. If you’ve selected Classic Hammer Film Horror as your theme, your invitations will be better related to this than, say, witches on brooms.

Continuing with this theme, you may have already thought of the line of an invitation in the style of an old cinema ticket (Cinema), or more colorfully, in the line of the old billboard posters. If you’re good at a computer, do it yourself using purchased or royalty-free artwork. If you are unsure, take your ideas to your local print shop and they can translate them into the finished invitation or flat print (for you to complete).

Another basic is to write what you want the invitation to say, this must include at least; the name of the guest, the name of the party organizer, the date, time and location and it should also include the dress code and more importantly the subject of any dress code, if you want everyone to be dress smartly. You can include a few costume suggestions, although you may want to do it on a separate sheet of paper. And why not discuss your theme with your costume supplier first so they can offer a list of suggested costumes or help with your theme selection. They can also help by keeping a ‘who ordered what costume’ list for you so you don’t get 30 people dressed the same.

Going back to invitations, having established the topic and developed your list of key information, you need the basic invitation. If you have a steady hand, you can trace specific shapes on art paper (construction paper) and then cut them out, decorate them, or leave them as a simple silhouette and use them. If you trace your design on folded paper, keeping the crease (traditionally) to the left, when you cut the design, it will open on the invitation. If not, cut the fold line too! Good shapes for this are pumpkin, ghost, witch, all of which can be decorated in a very stylized way.

For something fancier, why not use old brown paper with a wrinkled and torn appearance, charred edges (responsible adults only), and made to look really aged. An alternative is to use white paper and give it the appearance of aging by staining it in a weak tea solution and then leaving in some (not too many) coffee granules to add darker spots, which will spread with the moisture on the paper. While it is still wet, use your thumb to gently abrade the edges separating the fibers; you may need to try this several times for the process to be successful. When dry, crumble and tear as needed.

To really make them stand out, once you’ve completed your invitation, why not roll out some cobweb web and attach it. Don’t be tempted to use too much, this is a case of less is more, you really just want one hint. Taking this further, you could drop a small spider (according to the cobweb) on the envelope.

And what will you use to write your invitation? Pencil? Like its’ Halloween, why not go for the latest horror using fake blood? Don’t make it too neat and don’t forget to leave a few splatters of this around the invitation to make it look really authentic. One of the thicker blood gels may be more suitable for this task.

If you have to post your Halloween invitations, you will have to fold them up and put them in an envelope, but if you can avoid it, there are much more elaborate ways to present your Halloween invitation. For a little money you can buy plastic skeleton hands, roll up your invitation and pin it on the hand so that it “holds” or seal it between thumb and finger to make it look like the hand is holding it.

If you’ve chosen something like a large vampire ball as your theme, you can wrap your invitations with red ribbon and seal them with wax using a stamp made with a small coin (an unusual foreign coin works best) or better yet, or your own unique vampire. . Clan marking.

Handing out these elegant invitations should get your party off to a fascinating start and will be devilishly hard to beat, as others won’t get a chance. Have a good time.