Planning First Birthday Party Cards
These 1st birthday invitations are printed cards for a baby's first birthday party. They are ordered by the parents hosting the party, who choose a design from the grid on this page and edit the wording online. After a proof is approved, the cards are printed and delivered. The range is built around a child turning one.
One design to look at is Wild One Birthday. It uses digital printing on Paperlust Matte stock, at 178 mm x 127 mm in portrait or landscape. The card is single-sided. An order of 100 cards costs A$280, which works out to A$2.80 per card, and premium white envelopes are included.
What These First Birthday Cards Cost
This table shows three designs from this first birthday collection, each ordered as 100 single-sided cards at 178 mm x 127 mm.
| Design | Print method | Paper | Quantity | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild One Birthday | Digital printing | Paperlust Matte | 100 cards | A$280 (A$2.80 per card) |
| Little Ladybug | White ink | Paperlust Kraft | 100 cards | A$433 (A$4.33 per card) |
| Ahoy Maties Pirates | Foil stamp | Paperlust Wild Cotton | 100 cards | A$802 (A$8.02 per card) |
- Digital printing is full colour. The smallest order is 10 cards, and production takes 3 to 5 working days after final proof approval.
- Little Ladybug prints on Kraft card with white ink, an opaque white ink applied to coloured card. Orders begin at 10 cards, with production running 3 to 5 working days after final proof approval.
- Foil stamp uses a custom die, and the foil is pressed into the card for shine and an impression you can feel. Foil stamp orders start at 50 cards, and production needs 20 to 23 working days after final proof approval.
For smaller digital orders of the Wild One Birthday invitation cards on Paperlust Matte at 178 mm x 127 mm single-sided, the price is A$4.14 per card at 50 cards and A$7.77 per card at 10 cards. The larger quantity carries a lower per-card cost.
Design Themes and Photo Layouts
The designs among these first birthday invitations use illustrated artwork. The collection includes animals such as a whale, a bear, a fox, kittens and a ladybug, as well as dinosaurs, rainbows and cupcakes, bunting, pirates, planes, trains and cars, construction and a princess. The birthday catalogue tags Dino First as a design for both boys and girls, Wild One Birthday as a design for girls and Ahoy Maties Pirates as a design for boys. Other designs tagged for both include Tiny Whale, Under Construction and Planes Trains Cars.
Photo layouts are designs with a set photo area, and they sit in the wider range of birthday invitations for every age rather than in this first birthday collection. To use one, open the design and upload your own image on the customise page. The ideas guide covers theme and invitation ideas for every age.
Personalising Your 1st Birthday Invitations
Each design among these 1st birthday invitations is a template, which means it is a finished layout you personalise online and then have printed and delivered, not a download. You can change the child's name, the party details and all other wording, as well as fonts and colours. For wording examples and message samples, read the birthday invitation wording guide.
Within 1 to 2 business days of ordering, a designer sends you a free digital proof. Review the card carefully once it arrives, checking the child's name, the party date and the venue details. As you check those details, you can request as many rounds of edits as you need. Printing starts only after the final proof has your approval.
Getting Your Cards, Samples and Guarantee
Your cards are printed in Melbourne and sent free with StarTrack Premium. Metro addresses usually see the parcel on the business day after it leaves the print facility; regional and rural addresses take longer.
A sample pack costs A$5. Every order is covered by the 100% Print Happiness Guarantee, which means a print fault is reprinted. If you want to announce the party date before the card arrives, birthday save the dates are a separate card sent ahead.
Frequently Asked Questions
Count households rather than guests. Whether an address holds a couple or a family, it still needs only one card, so the number of invites follows your household list. Quantities move in steps of 10. The smallest order is 10 cards for digital printing or white ink, and 50 cards for foil stamp.
Adding A$50 is how you rush the order. For digital printing and white ink, rushed production takes 1 to 2 business days after your proof is approved. Foil stamp cannot be sped up. Delivery time is added after production, so the rush shortens the printing stage only, not transit.
Skip any copy saved from social media. Upload the file that came straight from the photographer or the camera itself. Before printing, image quality gets checked at the proof by the designer. The photo prints exactly as supplied, with no edits by Paperlust, though printed colour can differ a little from your screen. If the upload fails, email the file to support@paperlust.co.
Yes. The cards come with premium white envelopes, and you can add printed addressing. Black and white costs A$0.20 per envelope; colour costs A$0.35 per envelope.
Yes. A custom sample of Wild One Birthday costs A$15. Custom samples are not offered on Ahoy Maties Pirates because it is a foil stamp design. You can also order a swatch kit for A$20. Regular post is used for samples, so allow 5 to 7 business days for them to arrive.
You have 30 days from dispatch to flag a print fault on the delivered cards. Paperlust will reprint them first, and then offer account credit or a refund. If you approved a proof that still contained a spelling or text error, the guarantee does not cover it. In that case Paperlust helps fix the wording and shares the cost of reprinting.
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