https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:54:55 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1268390 Sun, 08 Dec 2013 22:06:01 +0000 Kimberlybee 1268390@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: oh that is adorable! I love it. My godson's 1st birthday party last year was superman themed and the party favors were superheroes. You did a great job! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1268380 Sun, 08 Dec 2013 21:48:10 +0000 littlebug 1268380@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ok, here's what I made with a combination of Power Point and picmonkey.com! </p> [attach=2005/13/mxiqgb.600x400.Invitationq.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1259061 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:14:38 +0000 Adira 1259061@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sketchbook: I know! When I made our wedding albums, I did sooooooo much work doing them in Inkscape only to later discover I could've just done them in Power Point and it would've been sooooooo much easier!!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1259027 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 12:06:49 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 1259027@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: wow so simple! I wish I had used that. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258938 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 11:48:41 +0000 Adira 1258938@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sketchbook: There are two ways! You can either save the entire slide as a .jpg (just do Save As... Other Formats and then select .jpg) or you can select the picture, right-click, and do "Save as Picture" </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258718 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:54:16 +0000 littlebug 1258718@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Deer: Oh, I love picmonkey and use it all the time. I tried using it last night, but it isn't working for what I want to do.</p> <p>ETA: Little Deer is so stinkin cute! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258710 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:52:47 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 1258710@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Adira: so when you use PPT, how do you save the image as a jpg? Saving this idea for later!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258707 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:51:43 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 1258707@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Deer: aw, shucks, thanks!</p> <p>@littlebug: thanks and good luck! Post pics! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258680 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:46:27 +0000 Mrs. Deer 1258680@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sketchbook: love that photo so much!! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258674 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:45:48 +0000 Mrs. Deer 1258674@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I made ours on picmonkey.com - love their site! They have lots of fun fonts/icons you can use :) </p> [attach=3584/13/mxah4c.397x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258636 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:41:13 +0000 littlebug 1258636@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@Mrs. Sketchbook: I have paint.net, too, and will give that a try. But I think probably PowerPoint or Word will do. I'll play around on that today. Thanks! BTW, that picture is awesome. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258578 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:28:34 +0000 mrs. wagon 1258578@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@littlebug: if you find something *close*, you could message the vendor and see if they will do something custom for you! I did that and came up with a design very very close to my vision! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258572 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:26:24 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 1258572@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Oh I imported it into whiteboard on my idevice so that I could block out our name....that is not a part of the design, haha! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258563 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:24:56 +0000 Mrs. Sketchbook 1258563@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I have Paint.NET and Scribus (free versions of Photoshop and InDesign), but honestly for simple projects, Word works fine for me. The newer versions are much more similar to ID than they used to be. I used word starter to make this one. I started to do something more complex, but I decided that I wanted the picture to stand on its own. </p> <p>For his bday party I did the etsy thing, but it was pretty much a blank canvas except a design at the bottom. I used downloaded a bunch of fonts I liked and used text boxes in word. Very low-fi! </p> [attach=2900/13/mxag5l.450x600.image.jpg] https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258493 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:07:53 +0000 littlebug 1258493@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: Yeah, I did that for his birth announcements, but I have something pretty specific in mind for his party and haven't found anything on Etsy that matches my "vision." Ha ha, maybe I need to stop being so gosh darn anal. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258423 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:52:59 +0000 autumnlove 1258423@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bhbee: I did the same thing! I bought a template for $12 and printed the invites for $6. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258404 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:49:31 +0000 bhbee 1258404@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>it's not totally DIY but there are a lot of etsy sellers who have cute templates for low prices. they will often put in your details and send you a printable pdf for a pretty low price - I did this for LO's bday last year and paid $16 for invitation and cupcake toppers. I printed everything on card stock at my office.</p> <p>as an example here is the shop I used:<br /> <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/EllisonReed?section_id=10664610" rel="nofollow">http://www.etsy.com/shop/EllisonReed?section_id=10664610</a> </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258326 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:25:39 +0000 Adira 1258326@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>GIMP is the free version of Photoshop!</p> <p>You could also probably just use Powerpoint, depending on what you're trying to do. I've also had success using Inkscape, but it has a bit of a learning curve! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/i-want-to-diy-an-invitation-best-software-or-website#post-1258296 Wed, 04 Dec 2013 09:18:32 +0000 littlebug 1258296@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>D's first birthday is in January (WHAT), and since we just spent a small fortune on Christmas cards, I don't really want to spend a ton more money on birthday party invitations, so I'd like to try to DIY something cute. What's the best program or website to use? I don't have photoshop or anything like that, and do not intend to invest in one of those programs. Looking for something free or something I already have (we have a PC, so Microsoft programs). </p>