The Letters/Invitations--Platform 9 3/4 Ticket

There are six parts to this post, although I've split them up for ease of reading. This is the second post.

Table of Contents:

 

1. Acceptance letters and Equipment list

 

2. Platform 9 3/4 tickets

 

3. Inner Envelope

 

4. Outer Envelope

 

5. How to stain your paper

 

6. Wax Seal tutorial

The other thing that we did was made Platform 9 3/4 tickets for guests to inform them of the time they had to be at the party by (in this case, 11:00am because the 'train' leaves then). This ticket was made by FlightlessPhoenix (me; I write most of the blog posts) entirely from scratch in Photoshop Elements, and it is as close to the one shown in the first movie as I could make it. If you have gold foil and you want to use that go ahead, but as we wanted ours to be low-cost we omitted this and simply had a black border in place of the shiny gold one.

This is a close up of the ticket from the movie, however,
you can see that it is a bit curved and not suitable for printing.

This is the version that I got the colours from. I found it
at Curiousgoods.com, and I think that occasionally
they put some tickets on sale. Ours looks quite similar to this,
however where they used gold foiling I simply
made it black.

This is the version of the Platform 9 3/4 ticket that I made.
You can save it as a picture and print off as many as you
like, but if anyone asks where you got it, please give
me credit ;)



This is a screenshot of the Platform 9 3 4 ticket in Harry's hands.



 I am quite proud of the ticket, and because it was made from scratch. I have made it available to download as a Photoshop file (I used Adobe Elements 7, but the newest version out is the Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, which you can purchase from the Adobe site. There are also versions of Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 you can buy, and that link there goes to Amazon where you can purchase a used version. If you would like to download the Photoshop file you will find it on my MediaFire account.

Anyways, the ticket went inside the first envelope (there was two) with the acceptance letter and the equipment letter.


**Later Update**
I finally managed to find a suitable, flat, printable ticket inside a Harry Potter book. I immediately scanned it into my computer and voilà! Here is the ticket. Its colouring is different but the style is the same. Of course, you can't edit this one, but if you like the look it's free for printing :)

The golden Platform 9 3/4 ticket I discovered.

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