Hoo's your baby?

It has been a month since my last posted.  I can't believe it.  Time passes so quickly.  I have been swamped at work and at home.  So, today I want to share one of the many projects I have completed during this past month.  A friend of mine is having her first child, a boy.  She requested owl cupcake topppers and a banner.  Happily, my scrapping buddies gave me the Give a Hoot cricut cartridge for my birthday in October.  Perfect, right?  I tried to match the owl colors to the paper plates, napkins, etc that they were using for the shower. Enjoy!

Wizard of Oz: Birthday Card

Well...my friend Suzanne's birthday is soon, and I wanted to create a cute card for her to coordinate with the gift I got her. She is a big Wizard of Oz fan.  I bought her a Graphic 45 Magic of Oz scrapbook kit from Archivers online.  So, I decided to use an image from the paper in the kit to make her a card and envelope.  The envelope is simple, and the card is more elaborate.

I used pop dots to raise some images, and I added some irock gemstones.

Hope she likes it!

Stash It: Hayley's Birthday Book

This is the first installment of something I like to call Stash It!  If you are like me, you have a lot of scrapbooking supplies.  I have been scrappin' a while, and I hoard supplies.  I love paper, ribbon, buttons, brads, fabric, and the list goes on and on... So, I am making an effort to use some of the supplies that I have had for a while.

Each year I make a mini scrapbook for a young lady at church.  This time, I searched through my supplies for a kit to use.  I have two or three discontinued Colorbok kits for minis like the one here entitled Baby Boy:

For the birthday book, I used one entitled birthday (of course).  I altered, inked, and embellished it with items I already owned.

I pleated a pink streamer and formed a circle for the cover (cheap and cute)!  On top of the circle, I affixed the number 11 for her age.  Add some letter stickers, pearls, a flower, and voila!

I would also like to highlight a few of the pages.  I used various border punches on the ends of the pages and inked them.

I cut a doily and added it and some flowers for extra texture.

I included gems and string to create a set of balloons.

The balloons mimicked the background paper.

I folded the end of one page and secured it with brads to create a pocket to hold a monogram card embellished with ribbon and her name.

On the final page, I included more pleated pink streamer and another piece of the doily with rhinestones for cohesion.

My challenge to you: Dig through your stash and make something!

Satin Flower Hairbows

 

Since making the red satin flowers for my scrap kits for my friends, I have wanted to make some as hair bows for my daughter and my niece.  I made a turqouise one and am very happy with the results.  Next time, I am going to put felt on the back that is the same color as the flower, just so it looks more finished.  My daughter loved it though and that is what counts!

Crop Kits

A few weeks ago, my girlfriends and I went to Nashville for the Creating Keepsakes Convention at the Opryland Hotel.  We have been several times.  A couple of times we went to the one in Charlotte instead of Nashville.  I highly recommend it!  I learn many new techniques in the classes each time, and we have a blast at the vendor fair.  However, we do not participate in the evening crops.  I am sure they are great fun, but I have to save money somewhere, and we love to go out and eat!  This year, we decided to have our own crop in our hotel room.  After grabbing some Thai food, we headed back to the hotel to create some fun layouts.  Each of us put together a kit for each person to make a two page layout.  So, I came home with several additional layouts ready for photos and a title!  Check them out!

The layout below is by my friend Amanda.  We stamped and stickled and used the cutest glittery leaves.  It is perfect for those great Fall photos:

The next layout is by my friend Suzanne.  She actually scraplifted it from a layout in a magazine.  I will have to get the details for you so you can look up the original.  It uses folded flowers and Technique Tuesday flower petal stamps.

 

Last, but not least, is my own layout. 

I made a red satin flower for each person.  I found several tutorials on youtube.  It is amazing what you can find on there!  Just do a search for fabric flowers! 

 I also included kraft colored file folders on the page made with a Sizzix die.  I thought each person could embellish them their way with a photo or paper or perhaps with journaling.  They open up which gives extra space!

Now, I just need to get some photos and journaling on these layouts......

Finally! Making Waves Party!

Well, as I mentioned a couple of posts back, my friend Susan decided to host our second scrapbooking swap entitled Making Waves.  Obviously, it was a beach themed swap party.  We also picked up two new members for the party!  The summer has been soooo busy that we just got around to having our party last weekend.  Sometimes, it is difficult to find a day when all seven of us can get together, but we finally did.  I completed my bucket for the swap pretty quickly, and I made sure to include a couple of handmade items.

The first handmade item was a set of three mini tags.  I stamped and inked them.  You can buy a pack of 100 at Office Depot.  They are resonably priced and last a while!

The second item I made was a set of tickets.  I ordered several colors from a seller on etsy.  They were blank.  I simply used a tiny seahorse stamp, some rub on letters, stickles to make waves and a yellow bead.  I sprayed the whole strip with gold Shimmer spray.  CUTE!

By the way, I am cheap!  All of my bucket items were $1.00 or less.  Combined with my handmade items, I was very satisfied with the results:

Susan, our hostess, gifted us with some cute brightly colored flip flops and these cute scrapbook page kits.  I can't wait to "dive in" to them and create a great page!

Last but not least, the foodand the dining table!  We enjoyed a scrumptious and beautiful meal before our trade and our scrapping!

Hope you make a splash with your projects as well!

Pretty in Pink

       Sorry it has been a while.  The end of school was hectic, and I have been without internet for a couple of weeks.  I finally got it fixed yesterday.  Thank goodness.  I am not addicted to the internet, but I did miss it (the convenience).  Anyways, on to my post....Pretty in Pink.  My daughter turned 4 this month, and one of her friends turned 3 about a week earlier.  So, we (her mother and I) decided to have a little co-party.  We decided about 3 days before the party.  We had to "throw it together."  Even so, it turned out well....It was a Princess Tea Party Picnic (a mouthful, right?).
       Our colors were pink and black with white polka dots.  I used white platters and some pink fabric I had from another party and bought a small piece of the black and white polka dot fabric.  I was trying to be frugal as always.

       The black balloons are from Hobby Lobby, and the two princess balloons are from the Dollar Tree.

       A closer look at the table top:

       I used my cricut and scrapbooking supplies to create a few personalized details.  First, I created the two profile signs for the front of the table.  I put the girl's names on them.

     

       Secondly, we created some cupcake topppers using the cricut again.  We attached black streamer to the back of each one creating a ruffle.  Simply cut a length of steamer and fold it in half.  Run adhesive tape on the back of the circle pleat the streamer as you attach it.  Cut off any excess and add a second circle to the back so that the toppper is two sided.

       Next, I added ribbon, a paper flower, and a rhinestone to inexpesive clear cups.  Here we filled them with stawberry wafers, but you could use them for drinks or fruit, etc.

       For party favors, I purchased some small pink and white popcorn boxes from Walmart.  We attached more homemade medallions to the front of each one and added the same black pleated steamer to the top inside of each box.  As you can see, one of  the fillers was a pinwheel.  Though our colors included pink, we had a few boys attending.  So, we gave them blue pinwheels in white boxes.  The pinwheels were three for a dollar at the Dollar Tree, where we also bought candy bracelets and ring pops for the boxes.



       Since our party was in the park, we set up a blanket for the girls and one for the boys where they could eat and play.  The girls had plastic jewelry, crowns, and a tea set.  The boys had bubbles, bug catchers, and airplanes to assemble.  Most of these items came from the Dollar Tree also.

As a side note, the airplanes were huge and were a big hit.  My sons decorated theirs the next day with markers and stickers!



Ladybug Festivities

One of my sister's friends contacted me last week to see if I could create a couple of items for her daughter's birthday party.  She had seen some cute favor tags and a birthday banner on etsy that had ladybugs on them.  She was going to order them but the seller was already booked and did not have enough time to create them.  So, I told her I would make them.  I used different ribbon because I had to use what I could find, but they turned out really cute if I do say so myself.  These are the tags that go on the favors:

And this is part of the banner that will say Happy Birthday Faith:

 

Making Waves Swap Party Invite

Since my Valentine Swap Party was so much fun, my scrappin' buddies are going to each host one as well.  I recently received the "invitation" to a beach themed swap being hosted by my friend Susan.  Instead of creating a jar of embellishments for each person, we are each filling one bucket.  We will come with our bucket but leave with a bucket created by a friend.  Exciting, right???  I thought I would share the cute buckets that Susan gave us.  She bought them in the dollar aisle of Target.  There were a variety of colors but not the color she wanted.  So....she painted them turquoise, of course!  Each bucket had white ribbon strung through a couple of holes.  She replaced the white with cute matching ocean inspired ribbon and added glittered seashells and fish chipboard shapes that she cut with one of her die cutting machines:



I have started to fill my bucket with a few purchased items, and I am working on making several items as well.  I will be back soon to show you my completed bucket and all of its contents. Be sure to visit me again!

Meet Me in Wonderland: Prom 2011 Decorations

Well, I have shown you the invitations, the tickets, and the place cards.  Now, it is time for the second Meet Me in Wonderland prom installment: everything else!  So, settle in ..this is going to be fairly detailed!  As our guests entered the building, they were greated by an eight foot Alice in Wonderland white rabbit! I want to say a special thanks to our art teacher and her students.  They did a great job:

After entering the building, we set up a sign in/out table.  In front of it, we placed an oversized paper mache book that we made.  The letters were made with the Cricut.  We added large ribbon as a book mark.

We cemented small trees into small buckets from the dollar tree.  We added birds and butterflies to the limbs and put oversized cards around the base of the trees to cover the buckets.  At the entrance to the dance floor, we placed two paper mache, moss covered rabbits on pedestals with paper mache mushrooms at the bottom. Cheap, but cute!

The tables were covered in eggplant purple tableclothes with lime green chair sashes.

The centerpieces were logs with butterflies attached and large teacup planters with pansies in them.  I bought two boxes of jumbo playing cards to make the table numbers.  We hot glued them to dowel rods.  The logs were free; a teacher cut down a tree on his property.  Once again, cheap but cute!  The teacups were purchased at Hobby Lobby at half price.

The place settings included Alice in Wonderland stamped tags to be used as bookmarks, keychain favors in green pillow boxes with small crown stamped tags, and pinwheels from the Dollar Tree.





In the sashes, we attached paper flowers made from purple lunch napkins.

Check out the cute little cupcake table....(cupcakes courtesy of Sam's Club)

And, as usual, last but not least, the food and beverage tables covered in moss, butterflies, birds, and mushrooms...

Hope you enjoyed this year's prom pictures and ideas.  My next post will be very soon...I am working on it now.....Enjoy!