Main Character Turns 21
Every flip phone in the room gets opened at once, just to hear the sound.
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 isA denim birthday invitation sets up a 21st spent in a diner booth with a dead flip phone on the table. Guests dig through a drawer at home before they leave, find the handset, find the wrong charger, and bring both. The phones go in the middle of the table next to the milkshakes. Half of them light up. The rest are passed around anyway, for the hinge.
The night runs on small competitions nobody announced: whose ringtone is worst, who still knows a nine-key text by thumb, who kept the charm hanging off the aerial. Somebody brings loose rhinestones and a pot of pink puff paint, and by the second round of fries there are initials drying on a back pocket. The guest of honor sits in the middle of the booth. Everyone is clear on whose night it is.
What goes on it
Every line replaceableThe wording on this card
You are invited to
TORI'S 21ST BIRTHDAY
Saturday, September 18, 2027 · 8 PM
THE DIAL-UP DINER · 1999 Modem Mile, Dot Com Springs, WA
Bring your old flip phone.
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
- Set the entry condition early Say in the invite that the flip phone is the price of admission, and say it once more two days out. Drawers take time to search.
- Bring a box of chargers Old handsets hold a charge for about nine minutes. A shoebox of mismatched cables and one power strip at the end of the booth keeps the screens lit.
- Put the decorating on a tray Iron-on patches, loose rhinestones, a glue pen and a handful of gel pens fit on one diner tray. Jeans get decorated between courses, not before.
- Book the booth, not the table A booth seats six and the sound carries less. Call ahead for the late slot and warn them the phones will be out on the table.
Start from this one
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.