Yesterday, we celebrated my baby girl's seventh birthday party! She is a little mini me when it comes to paper crafts and loves all the little details that make a party pretty ;) So, I am always compelled to make lots of little details to make her parties special.
So this week I'll be showcasing all the little details I did for the party.
Sunday- Invitation: Slide Out Moving Card and my first blog video!!
Tuesday- Goodie Boxes
Thursday- Birthday Banner and video #2!!
So here is the card and video on how to make it. Read on if you want to hear the WHOLE story ;)
When you pull out the card insert, THE BIKE MOVES!!
My first blog video (I'm no tech expert, but thought I'd give it a shot):
Here is the WHOLE story. My daughter and I were brainstorming a birthday party location and theme. I suggested Safetyville USA, a local place in Rancho Cordova, CA. It's a mini town that kids can play in and safely walk and ride bikes. It is really cute! We went to check it out and she loved it. Secretly, in the back of my mind, I thought...oh, I can use that cute Cycle Celebration stamp set that was in the new SU catalog. But, yes she loved it too. THEN, I went to convention and received a cute motorcycle swap card (shown in video) and thought....OMG, I can make a moving bike invitation! I was in love and so excited to get home and make it. (I always get the best ideas at Convention!). So there it is! Yes, stamps play a key role in my life!!! LOL
Yesterday was my godchild's first communion. It was a great day and everything ran really smoothly. Here is the invitation my sister and I made for the event. We wanted to make it mainly white with a slash of melon mambo. So we pulled out my Big Shot and a couple of my favorite embossing folders and came up with this simple, but elegant card. The words were stamped with the Wedding Sweet stamp set that is retiring May 30. This is technically a hybrid card since the cross on it was a digital stamp from My Digital Studio. Stampin Up also sells the stamp set, Crosses of Hope, but because I wanted the cross to be a specific size I just created it in MDS and had the perfect size I needed. I love MDS!
Enjoy and Happy Mothers Day! As you can see from the multiple posts today, I have a little extra down time today and am taking advantage of that down time to share some projects with you.
My baby turned 5 yesterday and we had a special Carnival party for her. Lucky for me she picked a Carnival theme right before the release of the new catalog so when we seen the Big Top Suite (pg. 62) in the new book we knew it would be perfect for her party. She loved it!
So I used the Big Top Birthday designer series paper for a lot of the items I made and used those colors throughout the party. To create the goody bags and inside of the invitation I purchased the Big Top Embellisments on My Digital Studio and easily made goodie bags, signs for the games, and other accents.
These were the centerpieces. The "vase" was made using the 2-4-6-8 box measurements and cut at 7".
These were the goody bags designed and made with My Digital Studio. I printed at home so the best paper I found for these bright colors was glossy photo paper.
This was our cupcake holder. It is a little lopsided but I just wanted to show you how I used the same DSP to dress it up from the plain white that it came in.
We created games and made signs for all of them using My Digital Studio:
Lastly, I dressed up the water bottles with DSP too. No picture ;(.
It was a lot making all of these projects and being able to match everything perfectly with the SU products. My daughter had a lot of fun and loved all her goodies.
For information on purchasing these Carnival Party items, email me at mayramt@hotmail.com.
I have been busy planning my daughter's third birthday party. She is very girly and loves princesses so we decided that we wanted to have a royal ball (princess party) for her. Her are the invitations I made for her. I used the SU Princess Time stamp set . Here is what the inside looks like:
I used the standard microsoft word for most of the wording and then left room for some stamped images on top and the word "princess". I added some glam to these with some jewel 3-d stickers.
I hope you like them. My daughter loved them, she is so excited about her party.
