Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Happy Birthday Sentiment Graphic
It's always lovely to open a card and find some lovely typography wishing you well! Here is a graphic I just made up for some birthday cards I am doing. Enjoy!
Monday, November 4, 2013
Minecraft Party
When I asked my son what he wanted to do for his birthday party, he told me he wanted a Minecraft party.
While scouring the internet for ideas, I found another mom who held their party at The Microsoft Store and that it's FREE!
We don't have an Xbox 360 (we only have the pocket edition), so I knew my son would love it as he's been dying to play it on the Xbox.
Going this route was super easy! I didn't have to worry about any entertainment and really, for all of the food that I brought, not much was eaten. We did put a bunch of the candy items in their favor bags for them to take home.
Here are some pictures of the spread.
Food wise, we gathered some of the easiest ideas that I found from lots of different parties.
It's not picture perfect, but it certainly worked. All of the employees at The Microsoft Store were super impressed and got a kick out of everything.
My favorite was the lava bucket. All of the kids loved dipping different items in the lava. (rice crispies, marshmallows, pretzels, swedish fish, cookies...)
The kids also really loved the jello water blocks. I just put the jello in a greased ice cube tray and then put 3 or 4 cubes in small clear cups.
A fun thing that I did when making the cake was that I put some blue, yellow, brown, and green M&Ms in between the layers and told them they as they were eating their cake, they could mine for diamonds, gold, iron, and emerald. I had good intentions of making little pick axes out of these flat skewer sticks and electrical tape, but didn't want to do it at 2 am.
Couple things to note... the juices were these little hug barrels. I got the printable labels for them from Heather at Geek Mom Mashup.
The CreeperAides (there are a couple on the table, but each kid had one in their bag) were Hawaiian Punch Lemon Lime Splash in 10oz bottles. They came in a package like this. I also included some crazy straws to use with them which also doubled as a favor in their bag so that we hopefully wouldn't have any issues with spills.
I used glow sticks for the diamond sword, but wanted to use rock candy suckers. Just didn't have time to make a trip to the official party store.
I also ordered some tissue paper grass because my son loved how it looked at one of the parties we looked at online, but we totally forgot to bring it in with us along with the brown table cloth.
We also had printed of some of the printable 3D Minecraft characters to put on the cake, but forgot those at home.
Oh well. It was still a great party!
If you're doing a Minecraft party, I have all of the food labels made up for you along with the Steve face for the bags, CreeperAide labels and TNT wraps. These were all things that people had done for their parties, but that I had to create myself. It didn't take long to do them, but it would have been nice to just have them done, so here you are!
DOWNLOAD HERE
I hope that you enjoy what I have to share and that your party is amazing! There are so many great and fun ideas out there for Minecraft parties!
While scouring the internet for ideas, I found another mom who held their party at The Microsoft Store and that it's FREE!
We don't have an Xbox 360 (we only have the pocket edition), so I knew my son would love it as he's been dying to play it on the Xbox.
Going this route was super easy! I didn't have to worry about any entertainment and really, for all of the food that I brought, not much was eaten. We did put a bunch of the candy items in their favor bags for them to take home.
Here are some pictures of the spread.
Food wise, we gathered some of the easiest ideas that I found from lots of different parties.
My favorite was the lava bucket. All of the kids loved dipping different items in the lava. (rice crispies, marshmallows, pretzels, swedish fish, cookies...)
The kids also really loved the jello water blocks. I just put the jello in a greased ice cube tray and then put 3 or 4 cubes in small clear cups.
A fun thing that I did when making the cake was that I put some blue, yellow, brown, and green M&Ms in between the layers and told them they as they were eating their cake, they could mine for diamonds, gold, iron, and emerald. I had good intentions of making little pick axes out of these flat skewer sticks and electrical tape, but didn't want to do it at 2 am.
Couple things to note... the juices were these little hug barrels. I got the printable labels for them from Heather at Geek Mom Mashup.
The CreeperAides (there are a couple on the table, but each kid had one in their bag) were Hawaiian Punch Lemon Lime Splash in 10oz bottles. They came in a package like this. I also included some crazy straws to use with them which also doubled as a favor in their bag so that we hopefully wouldn't have any issues with spills.
I used glow sticks for the diamond sword, but wanted to use rock candy suckers. Just didn't have time to make a trip to the official party store.
I also ordered some tissue paper grass because my son loved how it looked at one of the parties we looked at online, but we totally forgot to bring it in with us along with the brown table cloth.
We also had printed of some of the printable 3D Minecraft characters to put on the cake, but forgot those at home.
Oh well. It was still a great party!
If you're doing a Minecraft party, I have all of the food labels made up for you along with the Steve face for the bags, CreeperAide labels and TNT wraps. These were all things that people had done for their parties, but that I had to create myself. It didn't take long to do them, but it would have been nice to just have them done, so here you are!
DOWNLOAD HERE
I hope that you enjoy what I have to share and that your party is amazing! There are so many great and fun ideas out there for Minecraft parties!
Sunday, October 27, 2013
Monday, November 12, 2012
More printable stuff!
I made these little cards for toppings for my baby girl's welcome party. We had an ice cream sundae bar and everyone loved it. I failed to bring my camera, so I'll see if I can find any pictures from family, though the quality will be sub par.
It was a very cute though!
We got a bunch of little containers from the dollar store for all of the different toppings and then we put them up on things of different heights so that they were tiered and thus easier to see and access.
We used my little topping cards along with some chalkboard labels on picks and clips.
For the cards, I printed the words in a peachy pink color and then colored the brackets in with the aqua/sea green colored pencil.
It was a very cute though!
We got a bunch of little containers from the dollar store for all of the different toppings and then we put them up on things of different heights so that they were tiered and thus easier to see and access.
We used my little topping cards along with some chalkboard labels on picks and clips.
For the cards, I printed the words in a peachy pink color and then colored the brackets in with the aqua/sea green colored pencil.
If you want to use my cards, I have some for you. There are black and white images or the PSD files where you can alter the text/color. Enjoy!
Black and white topping cards
page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4
PSD Topping cards
page 1
page 2
page 3
page 4
Thursday, November 8, 2012
Thanksgiving Printable
These would work as a cute printable for decor or to use as an invitation for Thanksgiving or for a pie night.
Enjoy!
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Angry Birds
Last year, the day before a Halloween party and literally up until the minute before we left for it, I was making these costumes for my cute kids. The blue one actually isn't even stitched all the way on the bottom which is why it looks a little funny.
Everyone at the Halloween parties we went to LOVED them. As we'd walk by people they would all stop and say, "Look! Angry Birds!" We didn't see any other kids dressed up as Angry Birds. It was awesome!
These are made from a plush fabric instead of just fleece, so there is a furry type texture to them.
I am happy to make any of the birds or pigs!
Everyone at the Halloween parties we went to LOVED them. As we'd walk by people they would all stop and say, "Look! Angry Birds!" We didn't see any other kids dressed up as Angry Birds. It was awesome!
These are made from a plush fabric instead of just fleece, so there is a furry type texture to them.
I am happy to make any of the birds or pigs!
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Various Mermaid Styles/Fabrics
Here are some pictures of different styles and fabrics of mermaid tails that I have created. Most of these are pictures that I snapped on my phone, so I apologize for the quality.
Last year I made up this skirted tail for a customer who wanted a shorter mermaid tail that her daughter wouldn't trip on. I loved how it turned out!
Since my fabric was discontinued, I had to find some fabric alternatives. I have some shiny green satin that you saw in the picture above, a darker green shiny satin, another bright green that has sparkles on it, and then this is a dark green slightly irridescent satin that has the pintucks on it.. It's much lighter/brighter than it looks in this picture... more like what you see on the second picture down with it on one of my customers.
I had another customer who wanted tulle added to the side of her daughter's tail to incorporate some pink. This is what we came up with for her:
And then of course I have the tulle skirt version of the tail. This one was done in the bright green and we did some greens for the tulle bottom to make it more "Ariel" like. The top that we did on this one had dark purple shells embroidered to it and I made her a yellow flower clip.
This is a picture I snapped before I ran to the post office that day, so it really doesn't do it justice. It was very cute!
A third option I have for tail fabric is a blue/brown iridescent pintuck fabric. It is kind of a dusty blue and brown. This is the best picture I could find of the coloring of it. It of course has the pintucks like the dark green/olive color that I shared above.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/90402417/bluebrown-silk-dupioni-fabric-1-yard
Last year I made up this skirted tail for a customer who wanted a shorter mermaid tail that her daughter wouldn't trip on. I loved how it turned out!
Since my fabric was discontinued, I had to find some fabric alternatives. I have some shiny green satin that you saw in the picture above, a darker green shiny satin, another bright green that has sparkles on it, and then this is a dark green slightly irridescent satin that has the pintucks on it.. It's much lighter/brighter than it looks in this picture... more like what you see on the second picture down with it on one of my customers.
I had another customer who wanted tulle added to the side of her daughter's tail to incorporate some pink. This is what we came up with for her:
And then of course I have the tulle skirt version of the tail. This one was done in the bright green and we did some greens for the tulle bottom to make it more "Ariel" like. The top that we did on this one had dark purple shells embroidered to it and I made her a yellow flower clip.
This is a picture I snapped before I ran to the post office that day, so it really doesn't do it justice. It was very cute!
A third option I have for tail fabric is a blue/brown iridescent pintuck fabric. It is kind of a dusty blue and brown. This is the best picture I could find of the coloring of it. It of course has the pintucks like the dark green/olive color that I shared above.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/90402417/bluebrown-silk-dupioni-fabric-1-yard
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