Tutorial to make invitation

Stuf to make them

Sticks for broom handle
Dead long grass for the broom,
alternatively you can use
natural colored rafia, straw,
wool, broom bristles.
tags - from an office supplies
store or you can make your
own
string or twine (wool works well
too)
Black permanent marker pen with a fine nib
scissors
Making the invitaitons
Make a broom
irst of all we gathered up some
dead sticks from around our
backyard and the nature ad!acent to
our home. "e also collected some
long grass stalks that was nice and
dry.
#ather a small bunch of dried
grass, trim the top and tie it to a
stick (appro$ %& long) with a length
of twine or wool.
"ith a pair of sharp scissors, 'rim
the e$cess string.
'ake your assembled broom stick
and carefully trim the ends of the
grass stems so that it is nice and
even.

Create the tag
'ake your tag and write the heading
in pencil. (f you would like to include
a simple motif then draw it in the
bottom left corner. )fter you are
happy with the look and placement
of any elements you can go ahead
and *opy over them with a fine nib
black pen. +ub out any lingering
pencil marks when you are done.
Witches hat drawing
,ou can see here that ( have hand
sketched a simple witches hat in
pencil. -lease note that ( am not
good at drawing, ( find simple basic
shapes that ( can copy easily.
Heading
or my heading ( wrote the phrase
&"itches Ball& in normal writing with
pencil. ( then went over the pencil
with a fine nib black pen. ( added a
little diamond shape at the ends and
tails of all the letters to try and
create cool .alloween type writing.
/0'12 ( do not like my handwriting
at all, it is messy, boring and
inconsistant at the best of times. (
try to stick with straight 3uick
strokes when i write a title, then (
fancy it up afterwards.
0nce you have inked the title and
the withces hat drawing then you
can slot in the invitation wording.
)gain, ( try not to stress out about
my less than ideal handwriting and
do the best i can knowing that the
overall final invite will look good.
/ow you can create a simple border
around the tag and fill in any empty
spots with spider webs, spiders,
tree limbs, swirls and random
shapes.
)gain ( created the drawings in
pencil then inked over the top.
Close up view of the tag.
,ou can see the spider webs at the
top and sides and some random
lines at the bottom like the roots of a
tree.

"e hope you like our "itches Ball broomstick and tag invitation. ( was 3uite
surprised at how good it turned out considering during each of the first stages of
creating the tag we thought it looked 3uite boring. But once we added the border the
tag took on a new look. ( am 3uite the fan of borders in black ink now.