Last weekend, we hosted a Frozen Birthday Party for Lu, and I'm worn out! If you read my blog regularly, you know that I go a little nuts when it comes to birthday parties. I love to host themed parties, and I love to create games and crafts to go with the parties. (YOU'LL FIND MY THEMED PARTY IDEAS HERE.) This party was no different. You can look forward to a series of Frozen-themed posts, but today I'm starting by sharing my Frozen Birthday Invitations. (If you read to the end, I'm sharing an additional Olaf Invitation at the end of the post.)
Frozen Birthday Invitations
I've seen lots of Frozen birthday party invitations online, but I wanted ours to be different. The ice castle from the movie is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, it's also almost impossible to duplicate for a cut-out card. Thanks to Jamie from Completely Type A, I was able to find the basic shapes. If you want to see a beautiful 3-D version of Elsa's castle, you definitely need to check out her post. It's gorgeous!
Ready to create your invitations? First, download the Silhouette cutting file or the printable file by clicking on the download button below.
If you use the Silhouette version (svg files are also included to convert to other cutting systems), simply load your paper in your machine, open the file, and send it to your machine to cut.
If you use the printable version and plan to cut it out yourself, you'll definitely want a good cutting mat and a craft knife. Trim your desired card stock to 8 ½ x 11, and use your printer to print the file directly onto the paper. If your paper is different on both sides, print the design onto the back so that the black lines will not show on your final project.
*The font I used is called Garineldo, and can be found for free at dafont.com.
Once you've cut your castles and doors, the rest is easy.
- Working with one door at a time, fold the tabs forward and then slip them through the corresponding slots on the castle.
- Turn the castle over and tape down the tabs.
- Using glue tape, attach the castle to a coordinating piece of card stock. (My finished card is about 15 x 18 cm. I used 12 x 12 paper, and got two cards from each piece.)
- Create your own label to go inside the doors. (Dimensions on mine are 5.5 cm x 6.5 cm.) Print and glue under the doors with glue tape.
- Print your party information, and attach it to the back of the card. (Dimensions should be no larger than 14 x 17 cm.)
- Load your smiling birthday girl into the car, and go deliver the invitations!
Did you stick around to the end of the post so that you could get the extra download? Here it is!
Frozen Olaf Birthday Invitation Bonus Download
When I created my Olaf Valentines (FIND OLAF VALENTINES HERE and HERE), several readers mentioned that they changed the printable to make it a birthday party invitation. If your kids are more into the Olaf theme, I've altered my valentines for another invitation for you!
Updated 10/30/14: I decided that these invitations deserved their own post! You'll find the download link and more details on how to create the invitations by clicking the link below.
Click here to download the Frozen Olaf Birthday Invitations
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Marie @ The Money Template
Oh, I love the birthday invitations! The frozen design is so perfect that sure the children would love it! My friend's daughter's birthday party was held last month and they had a Frozen motif and the cake was also pretty impressive.
Heidi
Thanks, Marie. We had a special cake, too, but I found a really simple way to make one. I've seen some really cool Frozen cakes online.
Tori
Adorable Heidi! I love your Frozen invitation and the Olaf one is just too cute! Thanks for sharing the cut file! :)
Heidi
Thanks so much, Tori. (Loved your How to Train Your Dragon party ideas! My kids are huge fans.)
Marie
These are so cute! I have 2 nieces that would love these.
Heidi
Thanks, Marie! Frozen parties seem to be all the rage right now.
Melanie
Planning a Frozen birthday party for September...you just made my life super easy! :)
Heidi Fowler
Yeah! Glad I can help. Stay tuned. I'll be posting the rest of the projects from the party, too. Hopefully you'll find some more ideas you can use.
Jess
These are so cute!
Thanks for joining the Link Up this week!
Heidi
Thanks, Jess. It must take forever to comment on the posts from the party. Thanks for taking the time!
Lory Bernstein
These are just terrific! I'm an Event Graphic girl myself, so I just love seeing new ideas... :-)
Heidi Fowler
Thanks, Lory. It's fun to make stuff centered around movies.
krystalskitsch
These are SO cute. I just saw Frozen for the first time last week. What a classic. :)
Heidi Fowler
I'm so glad you finally got to see the movie, Krystal! I can't believe you made it this long. We were lucky to see it for free the first week it came out. We live in the desert, but we walked out of the movie into a freak snow storm! It was perfect!
Heather
The marshmallow kit is awesome!
Heidi
Thanks, Heather. It started out as a Valentine, and I remade it into an invitation. The kids really love the marshmallows, too.
CANDI
I would love one of those machines. One of these days I will get one. They can do so many things.
Heidi Fowler
I love my Silhouette, Candi. I was lucky enough to actually win it, otherwise, it would probably still be on my wish list!
Clare
Love Love Love! I don't have the tools to make that wonderful castle - but I am so in love with that Olaf invite!
Heidi Fowler
Thanks so much, Clare! The castle would be pretty tricky without a cutting machine--unless you really like to cut! I'm glad you like the Olaf invite.
Megan
What awesome ideas for the invites! I love the Olaf one, so cute!
Heidi Fowler
Thanks, Megan. That's my favorite, too.
shari lynne @ faith filled food for moms
I love these super cute frozen invitations! My Grandkids love the movie Frozen.. Love the little craft invitation of Olaf, you are so creative!
Blessings!
Heidi Fowler
Thanks so much, Shari! I think Frozen will be our favorite movie for a long time, too!
Elizabeth
Oh my!! These are so so so darling! I wish you could have been my party planner. We had a Frozen birthday a few weeks ago and it was a blast!! I hope yours was just as good!
Heidi Fowler
Thanks, Elizabeth! I'm sure the kids loved your party! With a theme like Frozen to work with, it just has to be fun, right?
Anjanette
All I can say, is my kids would love to party at your house. Nevermind the fact that "Frozen" is their number one movie of all time... Thanks for sharing these great ideas and the free printable !
Heidi Fowler
Thanks, Anjanette! I'm always totally exhausted by the end of the parties 1 I hope enjoy the printables.
DannyUK
This looks excellent#! Thank you for sharing. #WakeUpWednesday
Heidi Fowler
Thanks, Danny! The kids loved them and had a great party.
Katie Pinch
These are so cute! Pinned! :)
Heidi Fowler
Thanks so much, Katie! And thanks for the pin.
Shannon
The Olaf b-day kit is so adorable!!!! What are the large parts of Olaf made out of? Large marshmallows? I'm planning on using these for my daughters 3rd birthday invitation! Thanks!!
Heidi Fowler
So sorry I missed this, Shannon. There are more details about this invitation on another post, but yes, those are large marshmallows. The giant, flat ones are huge marshmallows that have been cut in half.
Jamie
Thanks for shout out!
Elizabeth
Thanks Katie for sharing the Silhouette file! My daughter will love these for her invitation. Plus I get to brush the dust off the Silhouette. Would you mind giving us the font you used for the invitation?
Thanks!!
Heidi Fowler
Hi, Elizabeth. The font is Garineldo. You can find it on dafont.com. Have fun!
Brittney
Love the castle invites!!! What did you use for the font on the card?
Andi
Just saw in the post above mine & yours that you can get the font from dafont,com & it's called "Garineldo" :)
Andi
Where did you find the awesome Frozen font? (for the inside of the card too?) I am getting ready to work on invitations and absolutely love this!
Andi
Disregard Heidi - just found the comment with the font name! Thanks so much!
Kelly
These invitations are amazing! Do you have editable templates for the party information?
Heidi Fowler
I don't have editable templates, Kelly. They were made in Adobe Photoshop. I charge $10 for a 1/2 hour of personalization. I know that the marshmallow valentines take a half hour to personalize. I have never tried to personalize the castles. Feel free too email me if you would like me to do it. [email protected]
Kelly
Thank you! I have sent you an email!
Sarah de Mul
Hi Heidi,
I know it's ages since you posted your Frozen invitations, but I still think that they are two of the best ideas out there! I've added the ice palace invitation to my "Ten of the best Frozen invitations" post on my blog. I hope that's ok.
http://best.frozenpartyideas.co.uk/10-of-the-best-frozen-invitations/
Keep up the creativity!
Sarah @ http://www.frozenpartyideas.co.uk
Nikki
what font did you use for the "do you want to build a snowman??"
Heidi
Hi, Nikki. The font is called "Wish I Were Taller."
Trac
Hi, I can’t access your cut file and would like to purchase it. Can you please share a new link, I don’t think the org I also one is working any more.
Thank you!
Heidi
Hi, Trac. I recently switched my site from an http address to an https address. I think that is the problem. Let me email my host and see if they can fix it. Hopefully it's a quick fix. I'll let you know when it's fixed. Sorry for the delay.
Heidi
All fixed, Trac! Please let me know if you are still having trouble. Have a great day.
Meg
Hi! I can’t get to the printable! I clicked it and put in my email, but the email never comes to my inbox? I’ve checked my spam mail also… I’d really love to have these for my child’s birthday coming up. So fun!
Meg
Hi! I can’t get to the printable! I clicked it and put in my email, but the email never comes to my inbox? I’ve checked my spam mail also… I’d really love to have these for my child’s birthday coming up. So fun!
Kristin
How do you get the doors to cut without cutting off the tabs? And to cut down the middle? Newbie cricut user! Please help!
Heidi
I used a silhouette to make mine, but I’m assuming a cricut is similar. Do you have an option to make a perforated line? You don’t want the silhouette to cut along the tabs. You just want it to make it easier to fold. I would suggest googling it to see how to do it with your machine. Try googling how to use a score line in cricut design space, or just have the cricut cut along the outside edge of the shape, and then cut the doors in half and fold the tabs yourself.
Deanna
Hi Heidi, I'm trying to cut out the doors for the castle invitation but the tabs keep getting cut off with my machine. How do I change the cut to score? I've tried ungrouping and attaching or uniting and nothing seems to be working.
Deanna
Sorry, guess I should have read ALL the comments!
Heidi
No worries. That’s funny that two of you had the same question within a few days of each other.