Happy 50th Anniversary - Part One

Well things are a bit hectic around here, we are preparing for my parent's 50th Anniversary Celebration this weekend.  This is such a milestone that my sister and I wanted to have a celebration with family and friends.  I have been busy making invitations, thank- you notes and decorations for the occasion.  My parent's colors for the wedding were periwinkle blue and there flowers were daisies.  I incorporated this into the anniversary theme.

The first thing I wanted to share with you is the invitation to the party.  It is a pretty simplistic card using craft brown, white, yellow and periwinkle blue card stocks.  I also used my Cricut to cut the two layers for daisy flower.  Of course, the picture is from their wedding day.  It is so hard to imagine my parents this young and makes me think if my boys are going to feel the same way about Matt and I someday?

I will post pictures from the festivities early in the week.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday weekend!

Melanie

Tyler's Fourth Birthday - Part One

Hi everyone - As I mentioned in my last post I was busy working on my son, Tyler's fourth birthday party invitations and decorations.  I have just completed the invitations and was very excitted to share with everyone.  Tyler wanted a Disney "Cars" theme and I just got the Cars cartridge on clearance from Michael's, so it worked out well.

When I sketching out the card I wanted to incorporate the western landscape as part of the invitation.  All my plans involved a great deal of work and since I was making more than a few I was getting discouraged, but then I looked up and had an epiphany of sorts.  When I looked up I was looking at several photos of our trip out west that we have on our wall.  I then thought that I could use on of those as the perfect backdrop for McQueen.  It took some searching, but I finally found a perfect one from when we were in Zion Nation Park.  It had the western feel and the road in perspective, couldn't scrapbook that any better than the real thing.  Next, I used the computer to add the text and printed it out on photo paper.  The Lighting Mcqueen is cut at 2 1/4" from the Pixar Cars Cricut cartridge.

For the back I used the computer again for the text and flag image.  Again, I printed it out onto photo paper.  Then I used the Pixar Cars Cricut cartridge again for the Piston Cup and McQueen cut outs.

The front and back were then adhered to an A2 size piece of yellow card stock.

A little time consuming, but I couldn't be more pleased with the way they turned out.  Next up will be the banner.  Tyler has wanted ever since he saw Bryan's first birthday banner.  I learned some things from making  his, so I am looking to seeing Tyler's.

Thanks for stopping by - 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