Y’all, I totally amazed myself with this one. While I’m crafty, I can’t get over how awesome Jonah’s Superhero Comic Strip Birthday Invitations turned out using a comic strip app on my iPhone. Did you hear me? I made this on my phone! Not one piece of scrapbook paper was used during this project!
Superhero Comic Strip Invitation Tutorial
Before you do anything, you will need to download the Strip Designer App. At the time of writing this, the app is $2.99. While I'm more of a free app girl, I realized that buying the app was cheaper than paying someone from Etsy to make a custom invitation for me.
Once I started playing around in the Strip Designer App, I realized I wanted a colored background for parts of the invitation. There wasn’t a way for me to do that within the app. I was only able to use photos. To solve that, I made a blank page in “Paint” on my computer. I changed the color of the entire background to my desired color and saved it. I sent it to upload to my phone through my Photo Stream. Voila! Rinse & Repeat. I did three colors—yellow, green, and blue.
Now, you’re ready to play in the Strip Designer app!
I chose a layout that would give me enough room for party information in speech bubbles and highlight the picture of my son. Place the color images that you uploaded to your phone into the template as if they were photos.
Choose speech bubbles and sound effect words to place on top of the colors. I used the speech bubbles to hold party information.
Basically, I played with things until it looked good.
*Personally, it was a little hard to make on my iPhone’s small screen. I definitely think it would be easier to use on the iPad, if you have one.
When I was pleased with how the invitation looked, I was happy to realize there were options to share the invitation or print directly in the app. I chose to save it to my Photo Stream and print from my computer. I printed it out on some photo paper at home, stuck them in envelopes and mailed them. Easy-peasy. Here's a copy of the final invitation with our personal information removed.
Once I got the hang of the Strip Designer app and figured out I needed the colored background images, it was EASY! The best part? My little guy loved it!
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Friday 27th of September 2013
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Anna
Thursday 5th of September 2013
So cute! how did you add the dots to the background?
Sara
Thursday 19th of September 2013
It was all in the app!
Camila
Thursday 25th of July 2013
I just loved this! My husband is 31, but he loves superheros and comicbooks maybe I will do something like this for his next b-day
Sara
Monday 5th of August 2013
Thanks Camilla! I'd love to see what you come up with!
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Friday 19th of July 2013
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