Birthday invitation

Truck Rally

The hazard tape goes up around the dirt pit, and it is the only rule anyone follows.

Part of the TinselLux™ collection: invitations in stitched leather, tufted velvet, linen and satin.

The material is the card: linen with a visible weave, velvet with a nap, leather with its grain. It costs the same as every other invitation.

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This birthday invitation is for a party that takes place on dirt. The pit gets watered down in the morning, hazard tape goes around it at waist height, and the trucks come out onto a folding table by the garage: oversized wheels, paint already chipped, two of them identical. Everyone arrives in clothes that have been cleared for ruin.

The runs start without an announcement and get formal within the hour. A plank on two cinder blocks becomes the ramp, a stack of empty cans becomes the thing to flatten, and the longest tire track left in the pit wins the round. Cake is cut on the back step, because nobody is going inside yet. The hose comes out last, and it is used on children.

What goes on it

Every line replaceable

The wording on this card

Come roar with us
ZACH MORALES
Saturday, September 11, 2027 · 1 PM
THE DIRT ARENA · 9 Mudflat Rd, Dusty Gap, OK
Mud is mandatory.

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

Wet the pit the night before Dry dirt blows around and sticks to nothing. A bag of topsoil in a kiddie pool, soaked the evening before, holds a tread mark the next afternoon.
Tape a name inside every truck Four guests will bring the same truck in the same colour. A strip of masking tape on the underside settles it before anyone has to cry about it.
One bag of dry clothes per guest Ask for it on the invitation and label the bags at the gate. Put a folded tarp in each parent's trunk while you are at it.
Mark the spectator line Knobby wheels throw mud a surprising distance. Run the hazard tape a few feet back from the pit and put the folding chairs behind it, not beside it.

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.