New Year’s party invitations are favorite design projects because they offer so many opportunities to personalize the theme: You can make use of photos, unique graphics and a slew of other custom flavors suited to your taste.
Sometimes, though, you need something quick and easy that simply looks great, which is why designers love free Photoshop brushes, vectors, fonts and other resources that help you elegantly accent your New Year’s party invitation designs in minutes. Here’s a host of New Year’s party invitation resources you can use to invite friends and family to ring in 2010 together.
Snowflakes
For many of us New Year’s never comes without a bit of sparkling snow (perhaps to go with your sparking wine). You can get free snowflake Photoshop brushes and snowflake vectors to use in your New Year’s party invitation designs from Brusheezy and Vecteezy, respectively.
Fireworks
When the ball drops, fireworks pierce the night air from New York to Hollywood and beyond. The Digital Artist Toolbox has some wicked fireworks Photoshop brushes.
The Bubbly
Speaking of sparkling wine, your New Year’s party invitation will be the life of the mailbox when it incorporates these champagne vectors from Vision Widget. Want to look even smarter? Have your invitation die cut in the shape of a champagne bottle or champagne glass.
New Year’s Fonts
I enjoy the hunt for the perfect font – exploring typeface possibilities is both a challenge and an adventure in inspiration. Font Space has eight free New Year’s fonts you can use for your party invitations. My favorites are Sparkly and Cocktail Bubbly.
That’s the short list – comment with your favorite New Year’s graphic design freebies and we’ll keep the list growing together!
Image use CC license via Flickr.
These are some great ideas that I am sure to be using for the upcoming New Year, I think having a personal invite is always so nice, makes the receiver feel so more special.
Thanks for posting, Penny! And when the recipient feels special, you build customer loyalty… whether we’re talking about personal invites or business invitations.