Free Halloween Party Invitations

Well we are quickly coming up to that time of year again.

Halloween, Hallow's Eve, The Day of The Dead - whatever you wish to call it; it is on its way.

We just came home from a birthday party today where the Goody Bag (which was a trick or treat bag of course) included a Halloween Mask ("a cow" to be specific).

My daughter immediately put it on and walked around the house Mooo'ing to all of us. It was very cute.

But...it got me thinking about my son's upcoming birthday party (in late October).

It will be a Halloween Themed Party I am sure (he asks for that every year); where I suspect we will play more of our "proprietary" Halloween Games, we will have our own supply of Halloween Treats in the Goody Bags and we will use Halloween Cake Decorations.

But it all starts with the Halloween Invitations.

*I would love to take advantage of Michael's 40% off sale to get a Xyron Wishblade - or a CuttleBug Machine to make the cards...but I am not sure if I want to buy all of the associated Halloween Stencils or Dies - just for this (plus will I reuse the same ones again next year??? - probably not). Anyhow...

I may want to just want to keep it easy and stick with my traditional method of digitally designing the Halloween Party Invitations designs and then printing them.

I create them every year myself. And they get rave reviews. But they do take longer to make.

You can get them for free if you purchase this "Ultimate Halloween Party Games" eBook and it's accompanying bonuses.

But anyhow... I really can not decide this year.

These new desktop and digital die cut systems have great templates and they are so quick to turn out a project!

Both digital and hand made invitations give me a lot of joy and are quite fun to do...but what do you think? Can you help me out here?

Should I make Halloween Party Invitations with die cut systems or make another digital design this year?

Xyron Halloween Card Making

Got a great new project outline for making Halloween Cards today. Came in from Xyron. Uses Xyron Wishblade. *You can view the video for this hand made Halloween Card idea here.

Instruction:
STEP 1	Trim orange cardstock to two 8 ½ by 5 ½ inch pieces. Trim back cardstock to fit just inside back cover, to approximately 4 by 5 ¼ inches.
STEP 2	Using Xyron Wishblade, cut the word "Scary" into the orange cardstock.
STEP 3	Using Design Runner, the ruler from the Design Runner Accessory kit, and the Junkitz Patternz disk, print a row of bats in a straight line across the bottom of the front of the card under the word "scary."
STEP 4	Fold the card in half.
STEP 5	Tie ribbon around the front of the card, starting on the inside and ending with a knot over the word “scary.”
STEP 6	Using 3/8" adhesive runner, attach black cardstock behind the word "scary" on the inside of card. Be sure to only run adhesive around the edges or it will show through the word on the front. This piece of cardstock also helps hold the ribbon in place.
STEP 7	Use white pen to draw a scary face on the inside of one of the cut out letters.
STEP 8	Personalize the inside of the card with a greeting or invitation information.

Happy Card Making!