Brunch with Santa Invitations

I am hosting a Brunch with Santa for Ms M and some of her friends next week.  I made the invitations for the event.  You can see the same type of invitations that I made for a baby shower here.

First you have to decided what you are going to write on the invitations and print them.

 Then make the folders for the main part of the invitation to slide into.  Take a regular 8 1/2x11 paper and cut it in half length wise.

 Then fold both of the pieces in half.

 Cute from one corner of the paper to the opposite corner (making a triangle).

 You need to cut triangle pieces off of both of the long pieces that you just folded.  You will use the entire 8 1/2x11 paper for 1 invitation.  Make sure you cut opposite triangle sides off so that the pieces can fold together...this can be a bit confusing at first.

 Lay the flat part of the invitations on top of each other and fold the triangle pieces inward.  Once you know that the pieces fit together you can glue/tape the back pieces together.

 Next, fold the triangle from one side down and add the decorative triangle paper (cut separately) to the first side.

 Fold the other side of the triangle over the decorative paper.  Add an additional decorative triangle piece to the other side of the paper.  Make sure that all pieces stick together at this time.  

Add embellishments at this time.  I cut out stars with a punch and added a ribbon to the invitations this time.  

This is what the folder looks like finished but without the actual invitation inside of it.  

Now it's time to cute the paper with the wording.  I cut them out and then used a decorative corner rounder on the corners. 

 Then you mount the words to the decorative background paper...for these invitations I used the same background paper as I used for one of the triangles on the folder part of the invitation.

Here are both pieces for the invitation.

Slide the wording into the folder and your invitation is complete.