Mira's Birthday Invitations

It's that time again....back to school and lots of birthdays.  First is mine the middle part of August.  Two weeks later, it's Mira's (daughter #2) then 2 weeks later it's my dad, then 2 weeks later it's Lauren's (daughter #1), then Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Nolan (son #1), New Years & it's done....the second half of each year seems to FLY by!

Mira hadn't decided if she wanted to have an actual party for her birthday this year.  Turning 12 means you're getting older & can't do those little girl things you once did.  So, finally she decided it'd be fun for her to have a {camp out} with a few of her close friends here at our house.  So I threw together these invites in about 30 minutes, with things I had on hand (since there's no time to order papers in..):

it says:  "we'll be catching fireflies & putting 'em in jars, camping out in a tent underneath the stars..."
hence the "jar" artwork on the invites.  In the top 3 jars I added the month, day & year of the party in orange to highlight the metallic orange paisley mat under the invite, which is on a cream colored metallic paper.

So, no doubt we will be roasting hot dogs & making smores, having sleeping bag races and playing flashlight tag.  No jars, no fireflies...in fact, hopefully no bugs of ANY kind! :)