We considered that this was going to be our son's last party without his baby sister, so we splurged. We booked a party at the local zoo. And let me tell you, it was worth every darn penny! I did not worry about food, menus, activities, cake, favors, decorations or anything else. The only thing I had to do was invite our friends!
Enter, the Two at the Zoo invitation! I thought the word play was cute and I had just found this polka-dotted font that was reminiscent of both a kid drawing and some animal print, so I started by focusing on the text treatment. The border of the invitation got a green tiger print, the letters in "two" got zebra, leopard and giraffe prints. Then, I combined my new favorite polka dot font with one of my favorite casual fonts and a kid-look handwritten font to jazz it up.
The hardest part was picking the animals and arranging them on the invitation. If I were doing this now, I'd probably use some of the animal illustrations my hubby did (we'll blog them soon), but I didn't have them at the time. I couldn't find any illustrations I liked, so I went with photographs. Finding them was difficult, while trying to not pick images that were copyrighted or restricted. I resorted to some old tricks I picked up from working at a zoo years ago and found enough animal photos to fill out the frame. There was a lot of editing and scaling of the animals, but I was thrilled with the final result!
I printed these through Target Photo as 5x7" photos and mailed them to our friends. The party was a total blast!
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