Friday, April 21, 2006 - Invites

Fontgeek sent me this info on how to make some invites and I want to save what he said here so I don't lose it. I love his ideas on good invitations:

I would go on a fairly heavy cardstock.  You could do
it with white or even a colored paper, the colored
paper would supply the color for the eyes and
lettering.  You may be better off with using white,
and adding the color in yourself, it gives you the
options to add or use any color in the printing or
painting process.  I would also be tempted to use an
old scraggly looking lettering style to tell the story
you sent me, I would do that on parchment  paper, you
can burn, tear, rumple the paper and edges to give it
some "age", make it look like it was part of a diary
or an old letter or something.  If you can find the
local Native American word for beware, or caution,
something along those lines, you can use it in the
letter, and then use it as a single word on the front
of the card, the reader will know what it means
because it was explained in the letter, and the one
mysterious word for the front of the card, along with
the eyes looking out from the trees will  pull anybody
in.  Then on the inside of the card, you kind of post
your challenge and then the vital party info.  You
don't want to have any of the inside text showing
through the trees, just the eyes.
Brian