Happy 50th Anniversary - Part Two

We had a blast at my parent's 50th Anniversary Party!  As I mentioned in my earlier post, I made most of the decorations.  Her are some tissue pom poms that I made for the entry foyer.  I just followed the directions from Martha Stewart Crafts .  It was a pretty simple project that created great feature as people came in.




















I used a smaller one along with some daisies (cut with the Cricut) that hung from the dinning room chandelier.  This is where we had the cake displayed.

Next, I made these flowers for vases all around the house.  I also used them as spacer in the Happy Anniversary banner I made.  I am sure I will be recycling them for future projects.

Lastly, I made mom and dad thank-you notes to thank all our friends and family that came to celebrate with us.

Have a great weekend,

Melanie

Bryan's First Birthday Bash

Bryan's Birthday Invitation

This past weekend we celebrated Bryan's First Birthday with the family.  We are celebrating a little late, but we have found that having Christmas, our wedding anniversary, Bryan's birthday and New Years with in span of a week is challenging to say the least.

For Christmas, I received this great cartridge for my Cricut called "Create a Critter" and it has such adorable animals on it.  I knew I wanted to use if for Bryan's birthday and I decided to to a Jungle Safari theme staring this little monkey on the invitation.

For the party, I wanted to see what other things that I could make.  I decided it would be great to have a festive birthday banner for when my family came.  I added some additional safari animals as spacers in the banner.

Birthday Banner

I also made a little welcome arrangement with more of our safari friends.

What party wouldn't be complete without cake.  Here is the little smasher cake I made for Bryan.  I also thought it would be nice to decorate his high chair with some jungle grass and flowers.

Bryan's Highchair Decorations

Bryan's Smasher Cake

For the rest of the family, I decided to make cupcake and add cupcake toppers to them.  Each cupcake topper had "1st" written on one side and "birthday" written on the other.  I used the Cricut along with the Gypsy to make my own design.  

Cupcake toppers

Yellow and Green Cupcake Toppers

I had such a wonderful time making these.  I am thinking about adding them to an Etsy Store when I get that up and running.  What do you think?  I would love to hear from you.

Thanks for stopping by- Melanie