If you want to make your own graduation invitations then you can. You can make them on your PC or indeed by hand. Clearly the handmade version is probably better if you have the skills to make them and possibly have good writing (or calligraphy) skills and also a small guest list or lots of time to prepare the invitations. The alternative is possibly easier to think through. So, lets get into what is a simple PC based skill you can learn for graduation clip art based invitations. Also this skill is good for any gathering such as weddings, baby showers and birthdays.

Before running through what you can do, please start with the design that you want to have. The best thing to do is free your mind from any concerns about the actual production of the invitations and think about what it is you want to produce. It may be you are producing graduation invitations for a kindergarten or high school graduation party or perhaps it is for your own graduate. No matter what the remit is, you need just to concentrate on the design you want. Firstly do you have a themed party or a party focussed on graduation or the graduate in mind. Perhaps you have a superhero, golf, soccer, mardi gras, oriental or baseball (just to give some example) in mind. In which case the emphasis will be on getting the right superhero emblem, golf club, soccer ball, masquerade mask, oriental characters or baseball bat onto the invitations. That means in the right position, right color, and right size. Also the wording then needs to be compelling. The idea is to find the images you want in the style that you want to bring the themed party invitations to life. The stage of schooling will clearly determine the style of images. Firstly cuddly kindergarten images are much more important at that stage while sophisticated and fun images are important for older ages. For graduation itself you will be looking at images like caps, scrolls, and gowns. They are the best for graduation. For all of these images you can find graduation clip art which will do the job. Indeed there is just about every graduation clip art image available that you can think of. The idea is just to find and download the graduation clip art you want from the free or paid sites and stick t the terms and conditions. You just need a pc, printer, simple software like paint and word (or Apple equivalent), your choice of clipart and of course paper. So using say paint, download the clipart images, you can play around with it till you find the right position and color, indeed you can rotate the image for best effect. Then decide if you want to layer the clipart . The clipart could also form part of the border to the invitation, forming a great frame. Then, copy the file to word and overlay your wording. I think this puts the emphasis on the wording without having a bland invite.

The paper you choose can be simple white printer paper. However it can be best to use a thicker better quality paper like invitation paper. It just gives that added quality feel.

Covering the basic wording is simple. Just put the type of party, name of graduate, date, time, luau costume and RSVP details. Add some advertising for the party as there will be a lot of them to choose from. Best band, best DJ, dancing all night, great food, great games and prizes and anything else that distinguishes your party.

Using all this great design work gives you the template for announcements, envelopes, t-shirts, save the date fridge magnets, favor tags, place cards  and thank you notes.