Bridal Shower

Again, this is the digital file pictured below. I actually never saw these in print. I was in the delivery room with Chael shortly after sending these to the print shop I use, so the girl I made them for picked them up herself.

Wedding Invitations

This invitation was designed for a small wedding with Tiffany Blue as her color. I forgot to take a picture of the actual invitation, so this is the digital file. It looked really nice printed and the polka dots weren't as "distracting" as they look in the image below.

Baby Girl Sprinkle

My friend April had her second child, a daughter, just a few weeks after I had Chael. I made her invitations and favors as well. I love all of the chalkboard signs I see on Pinterest, so I decided to use her colors and make her invitation look like a chalkboard. I had fun downloading all sorts of chalkboard fonts and playing with the layout. Her favors were Pink Zebra sprinkles in sweet pea scent. On the back of the tag is the Pink Zebra consultant information. I forgot to take a picture of her thank you cards, so below is the digital file.

Baby Boy Sprinkle

I recently had my second son, a baby boy named Chael. In May I had a "sprinkle" to celebrate his upcoming arrival at my favorite little restaurant! I didn't really have a theme, just went with boy colors and kept it pretty simple. Unfortunately all of the pictures taken before guests arrived were accidentally deleted, so I don't have pictures of how cute everything looked. Each place setting had a little menu that I created to match the invitations. The centerpieces were tin cans wrapped in burlap and ribbon combined with mason jars with tea lights. The favors were blue nail polishes with a poem that said "10 little fingers, 10 little toes, Baby Rudy fill our hearts with love that overflows".

The invitation.

 The best picture of the table that I have...you can sort of see the menu and the favors. There were cans and mason jars staggered the entire length of the table. It was super simple, but I loved how it looked. 

Wedding Program Fans

I made these for a "country chic" wedding that was being held in a barn. The bride gave me her colors, told me her flowers were hydrangeas and that she wanted fans made but left everything else up to me. She didn't even want to see them until they were done and she came to pick them up! Talk about nerve wracking!! Luckily she loved them :) I made everything in MDS and they measured 8x8. The actual program was cut to 7 3/4 x 7 3/4 and the mat was made from Kraft card stock cut to 8x8. I ordered the fan handles off Etsy. I tied the dark green ribbon around the handle first then cut the tails into a little upside down 'V'. I then tied a bow out of the light blue ribbon and used a glue dot to adhere it to the dark green ribbon. I was very pleased with how they turned out!

Here is a group shot of the front.

 

 And the back!

Minnie Mouse Birthday

Today was one of my best friends' daughter's 1st birthday party and I had the pleasure of making her invitations. My friend Melissa (I've mentioned her a lot) also is very crafty, so the party was amazing! She actually made the bows for the invitations too. Everything was made on MDS and I think my favorite part are the pearls on the scalloped trim. They were the last finishing touch during the design process. I love the pink and zebra together too! It's hard to see in the picture, but the pink background also has really faint polka dots.

 How cute is the M with the ears?? She had headband "ears" for everyone and lollipop favors.

 Pictures from Mila's first year as well as a frame for everyone to sign. 

 The cake made by Melissa's friend, Lisa.

 Cupcakes made by Carrie (who also made the cupcakes for Slevin's party)

I have two more birthday parties in August that I'm really excited about...but honestly, I'm now starting to look forward to planning Slevin's 2nd birthday party! Why am I crazy?!

Tropical Petal Wedding Invitations

I made these wedding invitations for a couple getting married in Mexico. I only had to make 20, so that wasn't bad at all. I purchased the petals from actionenvelopes.com (LOVE that site!). They are 6x6, so the orange mat is 5 3/4 x 5 3/4 and the invitation itself was 5 1/2 x 5 1/2. The mailing envelopes were the same hot pink color. And as usual, everything was designed on MDS!

Batman Birthday

I know I say this all the time, but these might be my most favorite invites I've made yet! How cute is little Jack with Batman! The picture definitely makes the invitation, I think. When his mom sent it to me, I knew immediately that I wanted to make the invitation look like a page from a comic book. I'm very pleased with the result. I downloaded some cool super hero fonts and found fun backgrounds on the internet then went to town in MDS! She sent me a text after she picked them up and said that she should have ordered extra because Jack wanted to carry one around everywhere! :) These are 5x7 and were printed on a glossy cardstock which made the colors look even better in person! (For some reason the "Jack and Batman" heading photographed pink, when it's really red.)

 Here are some close ups:

Bee Thank You Cards

You may remember this post for my friend's bee themed baby shower. Well these are the thank you cards. They measure 3.5 x 5 and were the perfect size for a little thank you note! I created them MDS and used the same background that I did for the invitations. I love making coordinating sets!

And I love things in multiples! Here are 90 thank yous!

What Will It BEE?

Have you heard the buzz?? I think this is such a cute baby shower theme, especially if you don't know whether you're having a boy or girl! I made these for my friend, Geri who is expecting her first baby. As always, they were made with MDS and I used the hexagon punch, rotated 90 degrees to create the honeycomb effect. The insert was also the same punch, only I scaled it to be 2x2 inches (talk about a lot of cutting -- I made over 100 of these). I rounded the corners to finish off the invitations.

Her favors were homemade honey and I created the tags for them. I used the circle punch and scaled it slightly larger than my 1 3/8 punch so that I would not have to worry about having to line each one up perfectly to avoid having white space around each one. Then simply punched a hole in the top and she tied them on with twine.

Her centerpieces were super cute too (I had no part in these!). I love the puff ball and pipe cleaner bee!! How clever!

I won one of the centerpieces, but unfortunately it got rained on before I could get a picture of it!

Construction Party Thank Yous!

I posted pictures of Greyson's construction party a few weeks ago, well here are the Thank You's I made for them. Again, I had to make a layout that included several places for photos because there were so many cute ones to choose from! They were made in MDS and are 5x7.

Construction Party

I absolutely love this theme! This is my friend, April's, little boy and he just turned 2. She took him to her dad's work to get some pictures of him playing with the machinery and getting dirty with his little dump truck. She sent me like 20 pictures and I had to narrow it down...they were all so cute! So I definitely had to create a layout for an invitation that included multiple pictures. As always I used MDS and I made these 5x7 so that I could make the picutres bigger. I think what really makes these invitations is the font. To me a font can make or break a design and sometimes that is the hardest thing for me. I have my favorite ones that I always seem to gravitate towards, but I knew this one had to be different; and no joke, this was the first one I tried. It's called "Cracked". So cute! I also like the push pins. They really look 3D! I actually found it on a Yahoo image search and it was red. I used the recolor tool to make yellow and black ones and then rotated them so that the shadow was in a different position, creating the illusion that they are pushed in different ways. That program is amazing! The only thing I don't like is how dark the writing is over the grey background, I probably should have used a different color or made the background a little opaque, but you can still read it, so I guess that's okay. It just doesn't stand out like I imagined it would. 

These are little "measuring tape" favors that she included in the kids' treat bags. I was able to buy sheets of label paper off of the place I get all of my work printed. Then I just cut them out with my Coluzzle and stuck them over the Bubble Tape! So easy!

 I will be posting the Thank You's in a few days once I know she's sent them out! It's another Greyson photo bomb and so cute!!

Wedding Invitations

I made 210 of these bad boys! It wasn't too bad, though, just a lot of scoring and folding :) Everything was designed on MDS and it folds down to 4 1/4 x 5 1/2, but opened it is 4 1/4 x 16 1/2. The RSVP and Reception cards were tucked behind the band (I forgot to get a picture) along with an envelope to send the RSVP back. I really liked how they turned out :)

Mickey Mouse Baby Shower

You can't go wrong with Mickey! It's one of my son's favorite shows. I made these on MDS. The Mickey shape was actually created by piecing together a big circle and two smaller ones (using the punch tool). I struggled with the stripes. I didn't like the bottom half with the stripes at full color, but I didn't like it plain red, so after much back and forth I decided to do a red background paper with the stripes at a really high opacity. I like how they are subtle, but still give the background some interest.

I have a wedding invitation I will be able to share next weekend and just submitted three more invitation orders to be printed (two birthday parties and a baby shower), so watch for those in the upcoming weeks!! I've been pretty busy and I love it.

Polka Dot Birthday

This might be one of my favorite birthday invitations I've made yet! These were for a polka dot birthday party and I love all of the bright colors! I used MDS, as usual, to create everything. The "1" is a clip art that I found online because I couldn't find a font thick enough, even when enlarged, to fit the info in. I think playing with fonts and using various fonts on the same project is one of my favorite things to do!

How fun do all of these look together?! Perfect for a little girl's first birthday!

Birthday Thank You Card

Isn't he adorable?? These are the Thank You cards I made for this birthday. They were very simple to make and that's how Landon's mom wanted them. I used iPhoto to blur out a balloon that was in the background, then inserted the photo into MDS and added the text. I used the "picker" color tool to match the text color to the icing. Once they were printed I rounded the corners and voila! The picture speaks for itself!

Bubble Guppies 1st Birthday Invitations!

If Slevin's birthday hadn't been the day before the Superbowl, I totally would have had a Bubble Guppies themed birthday for him because it is his FAVORITE show. So I was very excited when I was asked to make invitations for a Bubble Guppies themed first birthday! Everything was created on MDS and I even downloaded a bubble font to tie everything together. Isn't he a cutie!?

Meet & Greet Baby Shower

These are a cross between a birth announcement and a baby shower invitation and I love how they turned out. This is for a "Meet & Greet Baby Shower" for a baby that was born in December. Everything was created using MDS and then I simply rounded the corners (there were 100 invitations, so that's 400 corners to round!). 

Bless Their Nest Shower Invitations

I think this is one of the cutest baby shower themes I've seen! Bless their Nest :) These invitations were made to match a baby girl's nursery and I love how they turned out! As always I designed them on MDS. I tried to get the Top Note shape to cut out on my Big Shot, but no matter how I tried to line it up, it never worked, so those are all hand cut. I adhered only the top portion to the base of the invitation so that it would flip up and you could read the message underneath. The bow was adhered with a glue dot and the corners were rounded with my corner punch.

Flip up the panel to reveal a special message from baby :)

 All 30 of them :)

Check back next weekend! I have 3 parties that I did invitations for that I can post. One of them has been done since before Christmas, so I can't wait to finally share them.

Bridal Shower Invitations

I can't even tell you how long I've been waiting to post these! But, like always, I had to wait until after the party. These were for a bridal shower that I'm also doing the wedding invitations for (but what's funny is the bride had no clue I was doing the shower ones when she asked me to do the wedding!) I really liked how they turned out. I used MDS to create the eyelet border on the inside of the invitation and a paper doily with the top and bottom cut off for the little sleeve. The first layer is Chocolate Chip cardstock and the second layer is Kraft cardstock.