The Ghostess took leave of her senses got really ambitious and decided to make little “spell book” invitations for her annual Dead End party. She’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’s a lot of effort for invitations, but you can’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.

Also check out her main invitations page for previous years’ designs. I especially like 2006, with the little “eye of newt” bottles.