Shell-ebrate With Us, in teal foil script, and the whole card is built from mother-of-pearl: a seahorse with a pearl necklace curled inside an open scallop shell, a starfish studded with beads, silver seaweed, coral and loose pearls scattered down to the paper waves at the bottom. The deckled edge makes it look like it washed up on a very tidy beach.
Stella is turning 5 runs on one line in sea teal, then June 27, 3 to 5 PM and Seashell Cottage in spaced capitals with pearl dividers. Replace them with your own. The pun in the headline is the point of this card, and its cousins belong under the name: “Mermaid to be five”, “Under the sea at three” and “Making waves at four”.
Girls and boys alike, three to eight; the seahorse is nobody’s mermaid. Think tide pool rather than pirate ship: a shell-collecting table, pearl necklaces to string, blue jelly cups with gummy fish and a cake with a chocolate shell and one sugar pearl. Two to three weeks’ notice.
