Pirate Party Invite

My youngest child and only son Trace is turning 2 at the end of the month. He is in love with Jake and the Neverland Pirates so that is the theme we decided to go with. We are also doing his party at our local zoo where we will get to do hands on feedings with the giraffes. To fit the theme I had to do something special for the invites. Being a graphic designer I always custom make my children's invites, but this one had to be more. Why.... well just because!

So I started to rack my brain of what kind of Pirate themed invite I should do for my son. Then it hit me!! Why not do a Pirate Treasure map invite?!? Genius! So then I started working on the rough draft, first I had to color and design the treasure map looking paper, then I created the cute little map to follow to the X, after that I scribbled down a few cute sayings till the perfect one jumped out!

After creating the invite, getting the ok from the hubby, I printed them out and began to get ready to finish these pirate invites so they would be ready to hand out. First my husband and I carefully burned all the edges to the invites to give them a more pirate treasure map feel. Then to make them even more treasure map like, we rolled them up and tied them with a black string.

My son loved handing these out to our friends and family members, he wasn't 100% sure of what they were but he enjoyed giving them away.