My little brother is graduating this May and to celebrate, he wants to have a family dinner at his favorite Japanese Steak House, Hibachi 97 in Arlington. If you live in the area, you should check it out. {Totally like Benihana but family-owned and smaller.} You know, they make the little "onion volcano" and flip shrimp around, etc.
Anyway, I wanted to do something special and little bit different for his Graduation Dinner invitation, so I tried something a little "outside the box". I think it turned out really cute, and the best part was it was really inexpensive!
After a trip to the Container Store, World Market, and my scrap closet, it was pretty much done!
First, I went to World Market and got some chopsticks and fortune cookies. The chopsticks were 20 for $2.99, so they were a STEAL! The fortune cookies were only $4.99 for about 45 of them, so that was great too. Then I stopped by the container store and got a small box to mail it in, a translucent "takeout" box, and white krinkle shred. After that, I printed the invitation on white cardstock, cut it out and pasted it on black cardstock. Then I took a piece of "asian" handmade paper that I had lying around and framed out a little rectangle on another piece of black cardstock. Printed out the Japanese symbol for "Happiness" that I found online, and voila! Tied up with a ribbon and placed in the box, it's pretty dang cute!
The copy reads " Join us as we celebrate the graduate and wish him good fortune!"
The great thing is they're light, so they only cost $2.32 to mail... meaning they only ended up costing about $5 each total. And since I only did 12 of them, it wasn't too bad.
Pretty cute, huh? And definitely easy. Just took a little imagination and about an hour.
...Kandice Matsler shows a unique idea she had for making a graduation dinner invitation here with a take-out theme....
Posted by: Angie from ScrapScene | May 03, 2008 at 07:14 AM