DIY Baby Shower invitations - part 2

I finally made and sent out my baby shower invitations! After much procrastination and sheer laziness I did it. I was a bit nervous but after receiving some lovely messages of people attending it's cleared away my fears and replaced them with some excitement. Although I'm a still bit nervous. I love parties except when I'm hosting them, I'm just always concerned that someone isn't having a good time. But blah moving on I thought I do a little post just showing what I used to make my invitations and what I did.

pictures listed are exactly the product I bought from OfficeWorks.

Firstly I used photoshop to create the invitations, pretty much looked around invitation websites to gather some ideas of how I wanted it to look and then used google to find images. But overall I just played around with photoshop to found what I liked (I'm not a pro at photoshop!) I didn't want the project to be expensive so I went to Officeworks (Australia) and bought the items pictured above

1. Self adhesive magnets - to stick on the back of the invitations so people could put them on fridges  (no muss no fuss!)

2. Prepaid envelopes - I don't really care about envelopes! Nobody keeps them anyways in my opinion. As they say its what on the inside that counts ;) 

3. Paper - I decided to use my own printer to save on the cost so I just had to buy some paper. I didn't want it to be thin cause then it would just flop around everywhere so when looking for paper get something that is 200GSM in thickness, I thought anything lower than this just didn't have the desired effect I was looking for.

Other options would be to use a program that lets you make your own invitations (some are free some are not) and going to a photo shop or some place like it that will print out your invitations out on paper that photographs are printed out on.
Also feel free to get more crazy than I did with the design, you could always buy little decorations, stamps etc to pretty it up more (I prefer a clean and simple design) Each to their own!

How it came out!
  (I decided on using a long size rather than a short one & also I ran out of magnets for this picture so I used another magnet to keep it in place just so you could get an idea of how it turned out!)