College graduation is a time of new beginnings. Help your graduate announce it to the world with custom-made invitations.
Graduation represents a stepping stone when the graduate moves from the school life she knew to new and different horizons. While many different graduation announcement designs exist on the market, you can help your graduate make this memorable occasion even more memorable by encouraging her to creating handmade invitations. This allows her to express her creativity and individuality. These one-of-a-kind creations become a work of art that the recipients can keep in their scrapbooks long after the event comes to an end.
Instructions
1. Write down the graduation elements you will feature in your invitations. These include the parent's announcement, the name of graduate, the time, place, and date, and the degree that your child will receive. Additionally, write down if she's graduating with honors and announce any other kudos she'll receive or has accrued like National Honor Society, Study Abroad Cords or Golden Key.
2. Gather together the extra items that usually accompany a graduation announcement--graduation photos, the graduate's nameplate and instructions for getting to the after-graduation party, along with a map.
3. Open Microsoft Publisher.
4. Go to the "Greeting Card" option on the left-hand side of the menu that appears when you first open Publisher.
5. Select a design. Since you will change the textual information, it doesn't matter what the text says.
6. Double-click on the design you want.
7. Change the textual information that came with the Publisher template and replace it with the information you've written down. To do this, click on the text box until the text in the box becomes highlighted. Type your text in the box. Do this only on the inside boxes.
8. Complete all the inside boxes until you complete the information.
9. Save your work.
10. Print your invitations off on decorative card stock. Many different types of stock papers exist including ones that have colored flecks or faint designs. If you pick one of these papers, you've completed part of your design work already. The stock will enhance your design. Only print the inside of the invitation.
11. Glue your invitations onto the vellum paper with rubber cement. Let them dry according to the instructions on the rubber cement bottle.
12. Add eight photo corners to the inside of the invitation on place where you have no text. Stick the photo inside one set if four of them and the graduation name plate in the other set of four.
13. Fold the invitations once they've dried. Fold the party instructions inside the invitations.
14. Tie them closed with thin metallic ribbons. The ribbon should lie flat.
15. Insert the invitation in a fancy #10 envelope and address it.
