Okay, I’ve procrastinated a bit with this – Halloween is only 3 weeks away! But… if I’ve put it off, perhaps you have, too. So here’s your last minute, downloadable Halloween invitation; also, as a little bonus, some candy corn confetti (just because)!

I wanted something a little more modern than your usual ‘spooky’ invite. Inspired by the candy corn paper confetti, I went with a orange, yellow and white chevron stripe… it’s bold and graphic next to the black background and white text. The idea is to add the confetti to the envelope, giving your invitee a little sweet surprise upon receipt.

You’ll need:

• White card stock
• Envelopes in your choice of color (orange would be perfect, but I was out)
• Craft knife and straight edge (and/or scissors)
• Corner rounding punch (optional)

Directions:

1. Download the printable Halloween templates* (make sure to save the file to your computer rather than open it in your browser)
2. For the invitation, open up the PDF and change out the text in the field with your party information; then print (page 1) onto card stock and cut between the crop marks (a straight edge and craft knife/exacto work best for this)
3. For the candy corn confetti, print (page 2) double sided onto card stock; when printing from Acrobat, make sure to check the auto rotate and center option (do not scale) and double check that you’re inserting the other side into your printer correctly so the bands of color will line up on both sides after printing.
4. Cut the printed candy corn into strips – yellow on top, orange in the middle, white on the bottom.
5. Starting at the end of the strip, cut off about 1/2″ at a 45 degree angle – you’ll be left with a little right-angle triangle; then cut your first triangle candy corn shape.







6. Continue cutting triangles from your strip – half of them will be the classic candy corn bands of colors, and other others will be reversed (I didn’t use these, but if you’re not picky…)
7. As an additional step, I rounded the corners with a punch (but I think they’re still cute without it).
8. That’s it! I added 10-15 pieces of candy corn confetti into the envelope, on top of the invitation, so they’ll spill out upon opening.

Hope this comes in handy for ya! Any fun plans and/or ideas for Halloween? I can’t wait to see what fabulousness everyone comes up with for their celebrations.

{*I’m happy to provide DIY printable templates free of charge for your personal, non-commercial use. Please do not alter, distribute or sell them without my consent. © 2011 Make Merry! LLC, all rights reserved.}