How to create a custom birthday invitation online in Canva

Canva, one of the simplest ways of creating birthday invitation online.

Step 1: All you just need to sign up at Canva through email or Google sign up.

Step 2: Once the account has ben created, login to Canva. You will find many pre-built birthday invitation templates to edit and create your own.

Step 3: Select any template, edit the name, date, time, address and RSVP details. You can change the colors, font size, and can add images/vectors, if needed.

Step 4: Once your design is ready, download it either in the jpg/png format for social sharing. For print, you can download it as “PDF for Print”.

How to create a custom Birthday invitation in Canva?

Ideally, there are three types of Birthday invitations format widely used all over the world.

5X7 Inch Invite : Ideal for text and illustration combination invitations.

7X5 Inch Invite: Ideal for making invitation with birthday boy/girl photo.

Mobile evite (1080X1920 PX): Ideal for digital invitation to share on social media.

Key elements to be added in the Birthday Invitation:

• Birthday boy/girl name
• Age
• Inviting line e.g. “You are invited to celebrate”
• Date and Time
• Address
• RSVP

To start with a custom birthday invitation, open Canva, click on the button “Create a design” (top right side). Select custom size, make your selection out of the above three standard sizes.

After your selection, Canva will create the predefined canvas for you to start working with. In the left area, you will numerous options to add content to the invitation.

Elements: Use it to search graphics, photos, icons, shapes etc to the birthday invite as per your requirements. It features both free and premium elements.

Text: This section will offer you hundreds of different text styles and fonts family to use in the invitation. Try test and make use of the best style and font for making an awesome invite.

Uploads: Upload your own photos/illustrations to Canva through uploads section. Once uploaded you can use it to the design.

Once the invitation completed, click on the share button (top right side), go to downloads. You can download it in any format PDF/JPG/PNG etc as needed.