Jenni: How To Make Lego Invitations

Friday, September 13, 2013

How To Make Lego Invitations

My little boy is turning 2 on September 18! I'm pretty excited and boy does time fly.

We are having a lego party for him because let's face it: *I* love legos. We were thinking about Thomas the Tank but we really just don't like the message the show sends to kids.

I used the cricut to make these. I bought the primary color card-stock paper at Walmart.
Since he is 2, we are making the little "2" brick for invitations.

I don't have the shapes cartridge (actually everything is borrowed, cricut and a ton of cartridges), so I used the "Jasmine" cartridge for the rectangle, and I set it to 6". I was able to get 3 rectangles per sheet, if the sheet and machine cooperated together...

I flipped the paper and put in the "Accent Essentials" cartridge and pushed shift and one of the extravagant little circles, making it a plain old circle. I set those to 2 1/2" and got 8 out of the leftover paper. THEN, I was like "oh, these look like big legos" and was able to use the hole-y side for decorations!

I hot-glued those circles down on the same color rectangle to give it a raised effect, and BOOM, a lego invitation.

I still have to print off the details, but I'm just going to glue that to the back.

I looked for simple "lego" stickers, but was unable to find them. If I had, I was going to stick them to the tops of the circles to make them look legitimate.