Birthday invitation template

Sports Trading Card Birthday invitation

Varsity lettering on torn paper, pennants overhead and orange stripes streaking across cobalt blue — a basketball trading-card invitation that puts a likeness of the birthday kid on the front of the card.

Make yours in the Inviti AI app for iPhone.

Game Day basketball birthday invitation with navy varsity lettering on torn cream paper under a row of cream, orange and blue pennants, a smiling child in a blue jersey holding a basketball in front of orange and cream stripes on cobalt, the name on a blue ribbon banner and the party details in stacked cream, orange and navy bands
Sample details shown. Your names, date and place replace them.
About this design

What makes it
feel like the table.

  • Cobalt-blue field
  • Orange sport stripe
  • Cream paper lettering
  • Deep navy varsity lettering
  • Basketball orange

A string of pennants in cream, orange and cobalt hangs along the top edge of the card. Beneath it on the left, a sheet of cream paper with roughly torn edges holds “Game Day”, with short burst lines beside it and small stars in orange, navy and white scattered around. To the right, a smiling child in a blue basketball jersey with a 10 on the front holds a basketball at their side, while broad diagonal stripes of orange, cream and navy streak behind them across a cobalt field, with halftone dots in the lower corners. A cobalt ribbon banner with stitched edges and notched ends crosses in front of the portrait carrying the name and age, and the details stack below it in bands of cream, orange and navy, ending in a cream ribbon for the RSVP.

It is styled like the front of a basketball trading card crossed with a game-day poster: flat graphic shapes with a gritty, screen-printed speckle, paper with ragged edges and pennants with a soft, felt-like texture, all around a portrait in a realistic photographic style. Cobalt and navy act as the team colors, orange supplies the energy in the stripes, the ball and the age, and cream keeps every line of type easy to read, so the card feels like tip-off at a home game. The child in the sample is fictional; your version shows a generated likeness of the person in your photo in that spot, one face only, and the matching pieces are graphics with no portrait.

“Game Day” is stacked on two lines in heavy navy collegiate slab capitals with a thin cream edge and a worn, flecked print texture, the kind of lettering stitched onto a varsity jacket. “Mateo Turns 10” runs across the ribbon in cream varsity capitals, with the 10 picked out in orange. Below, bold sans-serif capitals give each band one line: “Saturday, June 19 · 1 PM” in navy on cream, “River Park Fieldhouse” in cream on orange, “Play · Pizza · Cake” in cream on navy with orange dots, and “RSVP by June 5” in navy on the closing ribbon, with small stars and speed lines at the ends of the rows.

Good for

Where this design fits best.

  • A basketball birthday at a rec center gym, fieldhouse or indoor court
  • A tenth birthday that marks the jump to double digits
  • A driveway or backyard hoops party with pickup games, pizza and cake
  • An end-of-season birthday for a kid who plays on a youth basketball team
  • A young sports fan or card collector who would love to be the star of the card
Wording ideas

What to write on a sports trading card birthday invitation.

01

Game day

Game day

Jayden turns 9

Saturday, March 6 · 2 PM

Northside Rec Center Gym

02

Double digits

Double digits!

Nora turns 10

Sunday, April 18 · 1–3:30 PM

Hillcrest Park Courts

03

Driveway hoops

Tip-off at 3

Join Omar for his 8th birthday

Saturday, May 22 · 3–5 PM

Hoops · pizza · cake at 18 Alder Court

The matching set

14 matching pieces for the same table.

Every piece below was made in this design with Inviti. Matching pieces are a Pro feature, and each one you request is a separate generation, so yours will follow this direction without being pixel-identical.

How it works

From this design to your invitation.

  1. Open Inviti AI on your iPhone and find Sports Trading Card Birthday in Explore.
  2. Tap to use it, then add one clear photo of your child, their name and age, the date, start time, venue and RSVP deadline.
  3. Inviti generates your version in this style. Proofread every name, date and address before sharing, and ask for a change if needed.
  4. Share it as an image or as one link. With Pro RSVP, guests reply from the link in their browser and you see every response in the app.
Good to know

About this template.

Will my invitation look exactly like this one?

It will follow this design's direction: heavy navy varsity lettering on torn cream paper, pennants across the top, orange, cream and navy stripes over cobalt blue, a generated likeness of your child as the star of the card, and the details on a ribbon banner and stacked cream, orange and navy bands. Because Inviti generates each invitation with AI from your details, the arrangement and lettering can differ from this sample.

Do I need to add a photo?

Yes. This design needs one personal photo, and Inviti AI won't generate it without one. The child in the sample is fictional: Inviti AI redraws the card with the person from your photo in that place, aiming to keep their recognizable features, hair and expression, and keeps the layout and wording around them. It is a generated likeness rather than your photo pasted in, and the design shows at most one face, so choose a clear, well-lit photo of your child on their own. Look over the likeness and every line of text before you share it, and ask for a change if something is off.

What if my child isn't turning 10?

Enter their age with the rest of your details. In the sample the age appears twice, as the orange 10 on the “Mateo Turns 10” banner and as the number on the jersey, so check both in the version Inviti generates and ask for a change if they don't agree. River Park Fieldhouse is only the sample's venue; a school gym, a park court or your own driveway works just as well.

Can I print it?

Yes. The invitation is designed at 5×7 inches, and the app's print preparation can lay out copies on A4 or US Letter with crop marks. Dark designs print best on matte paper; generate at full resolution rather than the introductory 1K size.

What matching pieces are there?

With Pro you can request matching pieces such as a “Game day menu” card, a welcome sign with “Game day” and the venue, a “Let's celebrate” sign, a milestone sign with the name, age, date and time, a cards and gifts sign, a “Wishes for” sign where guests write a note for the years ahead, a cake topper with the name and age, initial cupcake toppers, letter pennants with an empty photo opening, food labels such as “Pizza”, water bottle labels, “Game day” chocolate bar labels, thank-you cards and “Thank you for celebrating” tags, all drawn as graphics without the portrait. Each piece is a separate generation; the full sample set is shown below.

Begin with the moment

Your sports trading card birthday,
with your names on it.

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