Scrapbook Ideas for Bridal Shower Invitations

Use simple scrapbook ideas for bridal shower invitations for an original invite!

There are many reasons to create unique scrapbook style invitations for a bridal shower.

These types of invites are perfect for a scrapbooking shower in which a group of the bride's closest friends and family members gather together to help her to create wedding scrapbook pages. This unique type of shower is great for a bride who is an avid scrapbooker, but can also work well for brides who don't have much experience scrapbooking but want to have an original, personalized scrapbook. The scrapbook hostess can give the bride the remaining scrapbook supplies in a pretty basket so she can finish any remaining touches once the wedding pictures are processed.

Instead of a cookie-cutter bridal shower invitation, a scrapbook bridal shower invite takes this small touch a bit further, making it a very personal and a wonderful keepsake. You can choose the look, layout, and what theme you want the invite to reflect. This can also be beneficial if the shower has an unusual or hard-to-find theme.

While the maid of honor typically hosts the bridal shower, this can be daunting task. Help of the bridal party and family is often appreciated.

Often, other family members and friends want to be included in the bridal shower planning. Allowing help with crafting scrapbook invites can be a great solution. Perhaps an aunt, grandmother, or friend of the bride has excellent scrapbook skills and would love to be involved in the shower planning by making the invitations. Alternately, the bridal party could get together as a group and all be involved in making the invites as they complete discussion and planning the shower.

Scrapbook ideas for bridal shower invitations can range from intricately designed cards to simple, single page designs. Following are seven ideas to help you get started on the perfect invitations.

• Sweet and Simple Designs with Scrapbooking Paper: This simple type of bridal shower invite can also be very cost effective. Choose cardstock in the desired colors, and print the invitation wording on your home printer. (If you are using Microsoft Word, choose either the two or three column option for the wording, depending on how large you want the invitations.) Once the invites are printed and cut, cut a wide strip (about three inches) of patterned scrapbook paper that coordinates with the bridal shower or wedding theme, and glue it one-two inches below the top of the cardstock.
• Scrapbook Invite Ideas Using Vellum: Vellum is the perfect accent for a wedding, and these can be incorporated into bridal shower invites in a variety of ways. Vellum can be used as bride's veil, a glass slipper, or champagne glasses on the front of the invite. For a winter wedding, vellum can make beautiful snowflakes or icicles. A vellum overlay affixed with ribbon can also add elegant to invites using patterned scrapbook paper.
• Ribbon Closure Invite: Using a piece of themed scrapbook paper, cut a sheet horizontally into three strips. The two outer edges inward until they cover the center. Print your invite info on a separate piece of paper or cardstock, and glue inside. Affix a themed brad or scrapbook stickers on the inside of the invite above the printed info. Hole punch two small holes on the outer flaps and use a pretty ribbon to close the invite.
• Long Invitations Using Double Sided Scrapbook Paper: Using double sided scrapbook paper adds a unique twist to the invite. Print the invitation with desired word and fold the paper lengthwise to cover the print (an asymmetrical fold, with one side smaller and one side larger looks more whimsical than a perfectly centered fold). Use ribbon, rubber stamps, or cut outs to embellish the front of the card.
• Picture Perfect Bridal Shower Invitations: What could be better on a scrapbook style invitation than a photo of the bride, or bride and groom together? On a postcard-sized piece of cardstock, place a special photo and decorate with wedding-related die cuts in the wedding colors.
• Monogrammed Invites: Using a monogram of the couples' names is perfect for a scrapbooking shower invite. Purchase or make die cuts of the couples' initials in their wedding colors, and place in squares or directly on a creative invitation style of your choice.
• Toast the Bride Shower Invitations: These cute and classy invitations with scrapbook paper, a martini and umbrella stamp, and ribbon are versatile. Since many bridal showers have a champagne or other toast to the bride, this can work for virtually any type of shower.

For the scrapbooking bridal shower, it can be fun to incorporate scrapbook related items, like scissor stickers, and bits of scrap scrapbook paper, along with wedding-themed items. Or, if you don't want to do a full scrapbook shower, consider creating and noting on the invite that there will be a scrapbook station as one of the shower activities. Other ideas:

• Ask guests to bring any nice photos they might have of the bride, or bride and groom for the scrapbook.
• Ask each guest to come up with a unique journaling prompt as one bride scrapbooking idea.
• Request each guest bring a quote or piece of advice on love or marriage to add to the scrapbook.
• Instead of a traditional bridal scrapbook, consider a themed scrapbook. Favorite recipes would would work especially well for a family shower, where generational recipes could be passed along in a special way. Each guest could bring a memory, photo if possible, and special recipe for a recipe scrapbook.

If you want the look of a scrapbook invite, but are pressed for time, there are several time-saving solutions available. One is to order invitations that have a scrapbook look, such as this Button Invitation Card, a scrapbook style postcard invitation that can be personalized from Perfect Postage and Cards.

Another great time saving option is to use a pre-assembled scrapbook bridal shower invitation kit. Choose one in the bride's wedding colors, a classic design, or to reflect a wedding or shower theme.

Whether you choose a very creative scrapbook bridal shower invite simply to have an original look, or you choose a simple style designed to convey the theme of a scrapbook shower, the invitations will be memorable and special for the bride to be.

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