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Storybook Baby Shower Invitations: Open Book Suite in Sage, Blue or Pink with Book Request Card, Diaper Raffle, 8×10 Welcome Sign and Thank You Card in English and Spanish
"A little story begins" sits under an open storybook whose pages hold a tiny cottage and a round tree, with a ribbon bookmark hanging down the middle and leafy vines trailing along both sides. The invitation comes portrait or landscape at 5x7 and 4x6, plain or with a photo, alongside a book request card, diaper raffle, RSVP, 8 x 10 in welcome sign and thank-you card in English and Spanish.
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The portrait version of this invitation hangs a wide-open storybook across the top of the card. On its pages stand a little brown cottage with a green roof and a round tree, a dried leaf is tucked into one corner, and a ribbon bookmark drops from the spine. Thin leafy vines run down both edges to a scatter of loose leaves at the bottom. The script line “A little story begins” introduces the sample shower for Avery Ellis, Sunday, November 15 at 2 PM at Willow Nook.
Four ways to lay out the invitation
Each color and language has the invitation in 5 x 7 portrait, 7 x 5 landscape, 4 x 6 portrait and 6 x 4 landscape, and each of those comes plain or with a photo frame, so there are eight fronts to choose from, with a matching reverse, “The next chapter,” for each size and orientation. On the photo fronts the open book gives way to a closed green book with two stars on its cover in the top corner, and a tiny open book at the foot of a vine.
Sage, blue or pink
The book, cottage and bookmark keep their warm tan and brown in all three. The color goes into the vines, leaves and the cottage roof: green for sage, a soft slate blue for blue, and a dusty rose for pink.
The rest of the set
- A book for baby, 3.5 x 5 in, asking guests to bring a favorite book with a note inside
- Diaper raffle, 3.5 x 5 in
- RSVP, 3.5 x 5 in, “Will you join us?”
- Thank-you card, 10 x 7 in open: “Thank you… for filling our next chapter with love” outside and “With full hearts” inside
- Welcome sign, 8 x 10 in, “Welcome to our next chapter… Make yourself at home”
In Spanish the front reads “Comienza una pequeña historia.”
Getting it ready
Use File-Index.txt to pick the color, language, size, orientation and photo option, then open your own copy of the Canva template from the access PDF with a free Canva account and replace the made-up names and details. Print only the pages you chose from Print-Letter or Print-A4 at Actual Size / 100%, with Fit to Page off, and trim on the crop marks; the outer 1/8 in is bleed. The welcome sign prints from Welcome-Signs.pdf at 8 x 10 in. For the thank-you card, test the duplex direction on plain paper, trim, then fold at the center.
Questions
- What does the book request card say?
- "A book for baby: Instead of a card, bring a book you love. Add a little note inside so baby can remember who shared the story." It is a 3.5 x 5 in card, printed two to a sheet.
- Do the landscape cards use the same picture?
- No. The landscape invitations stand the book up on the left, open with the cottage and tree rising out of its pages under a few loose leaves, and put the wording on the right.
