Dino Dig
A rib surfaces in square four, and every other square in the pit empties to come look.
This design has the Final Touch: the wording is stamped, stitched or foiled to match the artwork, so the card reads as one finished piece.
Start from it and your wording is painted in the same way, exactly as you type it.
What the Final Touch isThe birthday invitation goes out as a field notice, and the party behind it runs like an actual dig. A sandbox is gridded off with twine, a plaster skeleton goes under the sand in pieces the night before, and every guest is issued one square and one soft brush. Shovels are not provided. Progress is slow, which is the point: a rib comes up, somebody shouts, and the crew abandons their own squares to crowd around it.
Finds are carried to a folding table and laid out in the order they surface, which is never the order they go together. The tail ends up where the neck should be. Somebody's dad has opinions about the hips. Then the brushes go down, hands get rinsed at the hose, and the cake is cut beside a half-assembled animal that nobody may touch with frosting on their fingers.
What goes on it
Every line replaceableThe wording on this card
Come help us celebrate
FINN COLLINS
Saturday, May 15, 2027 · 2 PM
THE FOSSIL BARN · 14 Amber Ridge Rd, Dunes, ID
Bones and cake at two.
Every line of the wording is an example, and yours to replace. The title is painted into the artwork. Type your own and it is drawn again with your words.
What to actually tell people
- Grid the pit Twine and four tent stakes divide the sand into numbered squares, one per guest. Assigned squares stop the fast diggers from clearing the whole box in six minutes.
- One brush each, no shovels Two-inch soft paint brushes from the hardware store, bought in bulk and handed out at the door. Put the sand toys in the shed before anyone arrives, because a shovel ends the dig early.
- Bury one complete animal Split a single plastic skeleton across the squares rather than scattering loose bones. It gives the table an assembly job at the end, and it means no guest finishes holding nothing.
- Call the dig before the cake Give a five-minute warning, then close the pit: a hose, a stack of old towels and a bar of soap by the barn door. Sand gets into frosting faster than anyone expects.
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The artwork
Keep this one, or describe your own party and get artwork drawn for it.
The wording
Every line on this card is an example, the painted title included. Change all of it; the design holds.
Sending
By text, from your own number. Guests open a link. Nothing to download.
The price
One credit for the invitation. Six guests or sixty, the number does not move.
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Designed in the TinselVite studio. Never clip art. The artwork and layout come with the invitation; the wording is yours to replace.