If the baby shower will have a nursery theme separate from the tea party, you might want to blend these together. For example, if the shower has a teddy bear theme, you could create an invitation design where the teddy bears wear frilly hats and sit at a table adorned with teapot, cups and treats.
While not all baby shower themes lend themselves to such perfect blends, you can still create a design on your card using graphics from one or more themes. For example, the front of the card might have a teacup or saucer next to the verse that mentions the tea, and an image representing the shower theme, such as a lamb or baby giraffe, next to the part that mentions the shower or baby. Complementary images can be coordinated by style and color.
If a tea party is the theme of the baby shower, then this will (of course!) be the focus of your card design. This theme offers many ideas. For inspiration, make yourself a nice cup of tea and begin jotting them down. Creative tea party invitation image suggestions include:
- Combining graphic elements, either manually or online, to create a young child's fantasy tea party. Find graphics of little girls dressed in Mommy's high heels, feather and flower adorned hats, etc., and then combine with a table set for tea.
- For a spring or summer time tea party, add whimsical garden applique, such as dragonflies, butterflies or flowers.
- Use lace to create a tiny tablecloth on which you glue tea set appliqu?.
- Create a collage of tea cozies, cups, pots, tea snacks, etc...
- For a formal tea party, place the image of a pretty teapot or teacup along with a hat or white gloves on the front of the card.
- For a playful tone, combine graphics to create a whimsical mouse wearing a frilly hat peeking out from a teapot.
- Create a tea party scene with guests wearing outlandish hats. If this to be a traditional, "ladies only" baby shower, find graphics of hats with lots of feathers and frills.
To learn more, please read Make Your Own Baby Shower Invitation.