{"id":4454,"date":"2009-09-22T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4454"},"modified":"2009-09-21T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2009-09-21T14:45:40","slug":"great-party-invitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=4454","title":{"rendered":"Great Party Invitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/invitation.jpg\" alt=\"Invitation\" title=\"Invitation\" width=\"138\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The Ghostess <del datetime=\"2009-09-21T14:30:10+00:00\">took leave of her senses<\/del> got really ambitious and decided to make little &#8220;spell book&#8221; invitations for her annual Dead End party.  She&#8217;s posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostess.com\/2009invitations.htm\">tutorial<\/a> on how she made them, including information on burning the edges and doing the nice hand-stippling on the covers.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot of effort for invitations, but you can&#8217;t beat them for style.  This would be fantastic invitations for a spooky dinner party or a (small, lest you lose your mind) wedding.  As with most of the projects I particularly admire, these lend themselves well to an assembly-line approach, and you can do a bit whenever you have some spare time.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out her main <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostess.com\/invitations.htm\">invitations<\/a> page for previous years&#8217; designs.  I especially like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theghostess.com\/2006invitations.htm\">2006<\/a>, with the little &#8220;eye of newt&#8221; bottles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghostess took leave of her senses got really ambitious and decided to make little &#8220;spell book&#8221; invitations for her annual Dead End party. She&#8217;s posted a tutorial on how she made them, including information on burning the edges and doing the nice hand-stippling on the covers. It&#8217;s a lot of effort for invitations, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself","category-terror-in-the-aisle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4454"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4459,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4454\/revisions\/4459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}