Need a creative invitation idea... read on please!

[Lindsay]

I have to create an invite for an Open House at my Church. We've built a new Church and just moved over there and we're inviting old ministers and some state congressmen and others to a big celebration.

I'd like to do something very unique. However, since only about 100 invites will be sent out, it will likely be printed at Kinkos on whatever nice paper I find at say, a scrapbooker store.

I'm willing to (and can recruit others to) do a special cut or tie bows or other nice touches like that. However it has to be done by next week!!! (Yeah, nice notice they gave, huh?) Any ideas you could offer would be VERY helpful!

[C.E.]

I scanned the back pocket of a pair of jeans once, and printed front and back on a matte cardstock, then cut to shape. glued 3 sides down and used a little piece of tape for the 4th side (for the pocket). then the 'invite' was printed using that yellow notebook paper stuff like a 'list of stuff'.

[Lindsay]

that's a really cute idea. i'm not sure it's appropriate for a church event, though.

[C.E.]

i know, i'm just trying to spark something. for instance, if it was a black tie event, why not make the invitation in the shape of a tie. :)

[Broacher]

Here's a couple simple 'different but easy' methods:

Rolled-- two (or three, if you want) sheets, different contrasting stock, both cut like... well, imagine a rectangle with a triangle the same length of the long side, and stuck to it's side. You print say, the invite stuff on one sheet, the map or program or something on the other, then stack 'em, offset them about a quarter inch, and start rolling them into a tube from the rectangular side, and then 'seal' the roll with a printed sticker (you can get semi-permanent sticker stock from Avery).

Curtain effect: fold tabloid sheet in half lengthwise, trim off a little triangle from the fold down to an inch or two on the outside. Open the fold, fold ends in half to make a roll in as a gate fold, except you have this area that 'peeks' out of the 'curtains' when you first open the piece. It's in that little exposed flattened quadrilateral area that you put something like, 'Presenting...'

[Vikia]

The outer envelope with a picture of the old church on it and when they open there is a picture of the new church.
or
A trifold with a picture of the old on the front opening to the new picture on the inside.

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