Train Ticket Birthday Invitations
If you're throwing a train party for your little one, you need these Thomas the Train ticket birthday invitations that look like a real train ticket!
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My first born recently turned 3!
I can barely believe it.
I still remember meeting my little bundle of joy in the hospital!
Now he runs circles around me.
To celebrate we had a train party.
Or as my son would tell you, a Thomas the Train party!
And I designed some custom Thomas the Train ticket birthday invitations.
Train Ticket Birthday Invitations Stationary
I knew I wanted to make the invitation look like a train ticket, and I'm going to share with you how I went about that!
I found this wonderful pack of 50 Kraft cards and envelopes at Hobby Lobby.
(And you know I used a 40% off coupon!)
Instead of folding the Kraft invitation cards in half, my plan was to cut them in half and use each end as an invite.
You can see how I printed my tickets in the above photo.
Train Ticket Birthday Invitations Design
Did you know you can use any of the images in the Silhouette library as printable images?
Just add color to those bad boys and print anything you like!
I designed the entire invitation in the Silhouette software using shapes, images I had downloaded from the image library, and fonts from my computer!
The tricky part was getting it to print correctly on my odd sized paper.
Luckily I had plenty of invitations to practice on!
Train Ticket Birthday Invitations Tools
Once all of my invites were printed, I needed a couple of tools to make them look like tickets.
Enter my spiral notebook punch and 1" circle punch.
Before cutting the invitations apart I used the punches on them.
For the circle punch I cut a semicircle in the middle on both sides.
I also cut quarter circles in all four corners of the two fused invites.
I used the spiral notebook punch to make the faux perforated edges on the sides of the tickets.
By just sticking the invite part way into the punch I was able to cut out small half circles.
Then I cut the invites in two.
Cute, right?
I love them!!
Train Ticket Birthday Invitations Envelopes
I like to dress up my envelopes, too, so I stamped a ticket and birthday candle on the front of the envelope.
I put my invitation in the envelope and all of the sudden it was just too much brown.
The train ticket wasn't popping!!
I wanted it to stand out when the envelopes were opened by their recipients.
Then I saw this great tutorial for lining envelopes Mel posted at Mel Stampz. Talk about timing!
So I decided to line my envelopes.
Boy does that invitation pop a little more now!
I took a 6"x6" paper pad full of distress patterned paper and chose a sheet for every envelope.
Train Ticket Birthday Invitations Envelope Liners
1. Measure how wide the paper needs to be to fit into the envelope and trim it accordingly.
2. Place the paper into the envelope. It should be snug and not too loose.
3. Flip the envelope over and trace the edges of the envelope's flap.
4. Remove the paper and trim ~½" under the lines your drew.
5. Place the paper back into the envelope and use a glue stick to attach the paper to the envelope.
Here are a few more of the envelopes
I think they are so cute!
This invite was so fun to create!
You can see all the details of the Thomas the Train birthday party we threw.
>> See where I party! <<
I love these invitations! I was wondering was your thought would be if you removed the text, featuring Galvin's special friend Thomas. Would it look to blank? I tried sending you a message via Esty but it didn't go through. I would love these for my sons 2nd birthday.
Thank Amy
Do you by any chance sell these? We love this idea for our sons birthday.
Absolutely! You find them in my Etsy shop: https://www.etsy.com/listing/83298797/thomas-the-train-ticket-custom-printable 🙂
How many come in a pack
These are just adorable! I love, love how they turned out...thanks so much for sharing these super cute invites!
Oh my goodness, these are the most awesome invites ever! Adorable!
I just wanted to let you know that I pinned this awesome invitation to my Pinterest as well as my blog. I used your idea to create my own. Here is my blog and my final product! Yours are amazing, and I tried my best! Thanks for the idea, I was in need of something creative! Thank you!
http://aglantzintime.blogspot.com/
This is absolutely adorable! So creative! Your site is so cool looking ~ love it! Visiting from tip junkie
Fabulous! You really used the elements well to create a perfect presentation.
I found you through TCB...I'm off to explore the rest of your gorgeous site. Cheers!
Hi, I'm a new follower. I found you on Creative Me Monday Hop over and say hi if you get a chance Jennifer from Just Wedeminute--
How cute! How could you NOT want to attend this birthday party after receiving one of those adorable invites?
Those are so cute! I'm pinning them to my party theme board on Pinterest. I'd love to have you link up with Creative Me Monday this week! Here's the link:
http://www.thesoutherninstitute.com/2011/09/creative-me-monday_25.html
Hope to see you there!
You should totally sell these -- adorable!
Jenny
http://www.simcoestreet.blogspot.com
These are adorable! My son loves trains so these would be perfect for his 4th bday. Thanks for sharing!
Those are just amazing! Great job!
wow those are amazing!!!
I am a sucker for a good invitation and this one is fantastic. Such detail, I love love love it.
I LOVE, LOVE this invite!!! You are super duper creative!
Imagine my surprise when I saw your invite on Whipperbery today. I'm planning my son's (Gavin!)2nd b-day which just so happened to be train themed!!! Sadly, I don't have a sillouette, so I'll have to pull together something in word or publisher instead. Thanks for the inspiration
These are little boy PERFECT! LOVE them! I can't wait for my sons next bday!
PS I have a $50 cash giveaway going on at my blog right now. Come by when you have a chance! 🙂
I just featured this as part of my BFF Open House Wrap Up. Feel free to grab a featured button from my sidebar if you like!
Those are adorable! I didn't know you could design that with a the silhouette program! Thanks for sharing that! I am excited to try something new out!
These train tickets are simply adorable!
Just love the invites!
oh wow... the envelope liners are adorable! You have such great design skill! I'm going to be making all my own wedding invites soon so may be doing something similar. I have just started following your blog. 🙂
- Amy @ Kiwi Chic
Really cute idea! I love it!
these are DARLING!
i would love for you to link this post up to flashback fridays going on now over at love notes.
go check it out!
{love} lauryn @ lovenotesbylauryn.blogspot.com
This is really cute...wish I could be a fly on the wall at your party...I have a feeling the invites are only the beginning.
Would love it if you would link this up to our Rockin' link party going on now at RoCa and Company. Here is the link: http://rocaandcompany.blogspot.com/2011/09/welcome-fall-and-you-rock-2.html Come and show off what you got. Hope to see you there...
Remember...YOU ROCK!!
Carmen @
RoCa and Company
http://www.rocaandcompany.blogspot.com
So glad you linked these up to this week's BFF Open House!!
These are wonderful! I love the paper they were printed on. Makes them so classic. Saw you over at Serenity Now.
Absolutely LOVE these! Featured you on my blog today:
http://diykindagirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/friday-finds-92311.html
Saw you at Serenity Now. These invitations are so cute and I just love how you lined the envelopes!
Great idea...GREAT Mum you are too!!
Your invitations are just adorable!!!
This is fantastic..i love the ticket...so cool!
This is sooo creative! Thank you for sharing your tutorial!
These are soooo cute! My son loves Thomas and these would be perfect for his next birthday. I'm totally pinning this to reference in the future! Found you through the House of Hepworths link party, btw!
These are so great!! Wow!
These are beyond cute! I love them so much!!
Those turned out FABULOUS! Perfect!
Seriously - these are amazing...every little detail has been thought of the corners, the edges...so professional. You did an amazing job!
Oooh - and I really like that ledger paper you're using as your background in these photos. That's super cute too. 😉
Holy Cow Michele!! Those look professionally done!! I love the look of them - and the envelopes really add to the whole look!! So stinkin' cute!!!
Michele, those turned out absolutely adorable! I think I need to get that notebook punch now:-) And the extra pop in the invite...perfect!!!
Wow these are super cute! I love the tickets- they really are the best! Great job!
Bekah
Wow those are amazing! My nephew would love that. He's 3 and a half right now.
Michele!!! These are SO incredibly awesome! And oh thanks...make me want a Silhouette even MORE now. That thing can print stuff?! 🙂 YIKES.
Michele, those are PERFECT! I absolutely love them and my little 3-year old would too!! Terrific!