Minion Party Bags

Another birthday has come and gone for my little girl.  This year she wanted a party at an indoor jumping house.  The only unfortunate thing was that I couldn't go crazy on decorations this year!  I did manage to make some cute goodie bags for her Minion themed birthday.

The bags were cute but simple.  Found a freebie svg online for the glasses and cut out the blue overalls freehand and used a rubber stamp for the monogram.  (I love monograms!)

One of the Minion themed treats in the goodie bags were these Minion wrapped Twinkies.  I found the printable online, just took a few minutes to print, cut, and wrap.  The kids LOVED them!  I'm not much for Twinkies but they looked so cute I just had to open one up and eat it.

Candy Cane Christmas Party

So this past Christmas I was asked to help decorate for the annual company holiday party.   The theme was Candy Canes and I was challenged with transforming our conference rooms into something totally different from previous years.  I wanted it to be eye catching as soon as you walked into the room.  I had an idea to create a candy cane chandelier to hang over each of the cocktail tables.   Here's how they turned out.

I took three large candy cane ornaments, turned them upside down and glued them together with my glue gun.  The tea light holders are plastic wine glasses from the dollar store with the bases removed.  Yes, those are actual jelly candy rings that were used to cover the remaining plastic stem.  A peppermint candy was glued to the tip of the candy cane to create a base for the jelly rings.   Chandelier crystals were attached to the metal ornament hook that came adhered to the candy canes.  The lights were dimmed during the party so you were able to immediately notice the battery powered tea lights.  What better to coordinate with the candy cane chandeliers than candy cane wall sconces!

These were created in the same fashion but just one candy cane glued to a piece of poster board.

I love cute paper banners and wanted to create something large enough to cover the front wall of the conference room.  Large poster boards covered with red & white wrapping paper provided a nice base. Letters were die cut and glittered to spell out  "Candy Cane Wishes" Each letter was framed with layered black and red poster board.  Each piece of poster board was cut in half and then I used my circle cutter on each of the four corners.  I love the chalkboard look and thought this would be an easy way to create something similar.

Unfortunately, I was unable to get all three words in the picture but I think you get the idea.

We had a large Candy Bar.  I created a cut file using Make the Cut software for the Candy Shop Sign.  

The sit down dining area also had a blank wall that needed to be covered.  Instead of hanging chandeliers from the ceiling, I used a die cut image of a chandelier (added battery powered lights of course) and hung these as pictures on the wall.  Chandelier svg was downloaded from Sherry K designs and cut with Make the Cut.  Again, real candy canes used on the chandelier.

Here's a couple of other signs that were hung on the same wall.

Centerpieces for the dining tables were made with pots from the dollar store painted white.  The peppermint candy was made with glitter paper and a 10 inch styrofoam circle.  I didn't have a cut file for a peppermint candy so I created my own freehand.  The stick was made from two large candy cane sticks purchased from the .99 cents store and glued together and secured with clear packing tape.  They held up just fine (thankfully!)  Hard to tell from this picture but the red glitter paper had lots of sparkle.

All in all, the event was a huge success.  There were so many people that worked hard to make it all happen and I was happy to be able to contribute.

Witch Hat

So Halloween has come and gone but I couldn't resist posting this Witch Hat candy box that I made using an svg file from SVG Cuts Gimmie Candy collection.  I love their gift box sets, especially the Halloween theme boxes.  I enlarged the file to make a nice size favor box.  This picture has candy in it but I actually used these as gift boxes to hold a little ceramic pumpkin that I gave to my daughters teachers.

I used a sheer ribbon that I purchased at Michaels and just dotted it with some Stickles to make the bow.  The flower is an old Prima that I had from a few years back, also Stickled.

Two gifts in one!  The teachers loved them.

Flip Flop Birthday Party

We celebrated by daughter's 7th birthday in August.  She is crazy for flip flops so we decided to do a flip flop themed birthday party.  First stop was the dollar store to buy all the flip flops and summer themed goodies I could find!  I was lucky to see that they had flips flops in all the colors I needed!  Wanted to make it a little girly but still have some things the boys could enjoy.  All the kids, boys and girls alike, had a blast!

Girls favor boxes were made from a free file I found on svgshop.com.  I wanted to make the flip flops look super cute so I embellished them with flowers, rhinestones and ribbon.  I used heavy card stock for  the base so they would be sturdy.  I also embossed the base to match the patterned paper.  I forgot to take a picture of the inside but they were filled with a manicure kit of nail polish, small bottle of polish remover and nail files.

My sister in law had the window frame in her garage.  She was kind enough to let me take it and decorate it for a picture backdrop.  My husband screwed on metal brackets to the back so it would stand  up since we didn't have a place to hang it.

I painted a piece of balsa wood with chalkboard paint and added the sign to the top.  

Favors for the boys, water bottles filled with bubbles, tattoos and gum balls .   I was able to find bubble wands and beach balls in green, blue and yellow.  Colors coordinated perfectly!

I saw these nail polish marshmallow on Pinterest.  The ones I saw were sitting on a tray.  I thought it would be cute to put them on a stick so I made a little stand to display them.  I just glued a piece of foam board to a glass candlestick holder I bought for 50 cents at a yard sale (used silicone glue for this part, didn't think the glue gun would hold too good).  Adhered flower foam to the board and placed the plastic grass on top.  Glued card stock to the sides with glue gun.  This was super easy, took only about a half-hour to assemble the whole thing.

Flip Flop Centerpieces. I cut the number 7 out of card stock and used foam adhesive to attach to balloons.

I had been wanting to make one of these candy jars out of an empty pickle jar and candlestick.  Saw the idea on Pinterest.  It was a rush job so its not as clean as I would have liked it to be.  But it was perfect to display the gumballs for the guessing game.

A friend of mine coordinated games for the kids.  These were the prizes they were able to buy with the fake money they won.

Happy Birthday banner was made with dollar store flip flops and name banner  made with MS circle punch.

I was able to find some foam candle holders at Michaels on sale for .29 so I bought a whole bunch and had them out for the kids to decorate.

Of course, we had to have a Flip Flop Piñata!

Hope you enjoy looking at these pictures.  It was such a fun theme!

Circus Gift Bags

A family member asked me to make two monogrammed gift bags for a circus themed birthday party she was attending.  The gifts were for two girls age 1 and 3. Here's what I came up with.

I used MS circle punch for the base- cut at 12 inches and Cricut Ribbons & Rosettes cartridge for the rosettes-double loop image cut at 4 inches.  Embellished with rhinestones and ribbon.  Hard to tell from the picture but the tag was embossed using Happy Birthday Cuttlebug folder.  Numbers and letters were printed from my computer on white card stock.  I also used Crafter Companion Glitter spray on the yellow paper.

First Communion Cards

First Communion card I made for my Goddaughter.  Used Teresa Collins paper, die cute is from Spellbinders.  Pearls are Viva Decor Pearl Pen in Ivory.   I hope she likes it!

Mustache Bash

My niece wanted a mustache themed party for her 12th Birthday.  This turned out to be more fun that I thought.  I enjoyed making decorations and was so glad that she and everyone else enjoyed it!

First, I downloaded and cut some mustache images using MTC software and my eCraft.  I cut all different sizes to use for favors, invitations, and decorations.

Invitations were very simple.  Used Spellbinders Nestabilities, Grand Labels die cut.   Sprayed the purple background paper with Crafter's Companion Spray & Sprakle.  The multicolor spray looks great on darker shades of paper.  What 12 year old girl doesn't love a little sparkle?

I wanted to use balloons for the centerpieces but knew it would be windy so I came up with this guy.  I secured the balloon with foam tape inside the edges of the pot.  I used washi tape for the trim and the bow tie was cut out from a free download from SVG cuts.

My nieces helped the night before the party with making treat bags and white chocolate dipped Golden Oreo's.

Found a great website to make  this poster.  www.keepcalm-o-matic.co.uk

 

Treat table is always popular! 

 My first time putting together a photo booth and it was a hit.  The vintage oval frames were perfect for the occasion.

All in all it was a fun day!  Can't wait for the next party.