bunny cards

I realized I never shared the invites and thank yous from the bunny party.  I cut out the bunnies with my Silhouette.  You can tell I used the same bunny outline for both, but with the thank you cards I cut the words out of the middle too.

The styles are pretty simple, I just used some pinks and greens I had in my stash.  Don't you love the little bunny brads on the inside of the invites?
I used a little green rhinestone on the thank you bunny eyes.

silhouette & pizza parts

I got a new toy for Christmas!  I've seen them all over blog land and decided (after MUCH deliberation) that I would rather have a Silhouette than a Cricut.  The selling point for me was the ability to make your own designs instead of buying the design cartridges.
I have used other people's Cricut machines, and have to say - I'm glad I made the decision I did.

I downloaded a few outlines of pizza ingredients, and let it do its thing!! {mushrooms, pepperoni, peppers, olives}

I set the kids loose with a glue stick and all the pieces.  {cheese is just little strips of white paper I cut by hand}  Then I added the YUM on top after.

Inside the card is a recipe that we're hoping some of friends will want to try! {phone number has been erased}

I'm looking forward to celebrating his 6th birthday with him!  We'll be making our own pizzas & cookies - should be a messy, fun time!

truck cards

I took the stamps and finally made them into cards.  They're not anything fancy, but I'm just glad I did something with the stamps.

This is my favorite one.

ladybug, lovebug

Have you ever read this book? It's the cutest story about a younger sister who always feels left out of things by her older brother. She is so creative, and so ready to take on the world. It was a must have for our library!
To celebrate our little ladybug girl turning 2, we're throwing a ladybug party!
I found a poem written by Maria Fleming and added my own special stanza.

Ladybugs all dressed in red

Strolling through the flowerbed.
If I were tiny just like you,
I'd creep among the flowers too!
Abby, lovebug, dressed in blue
Strolling through the morning dew
At 11 in the morning on April 10th
Let's party with family as you turn two!

LEGO party - invites

My boy is turning 5 next month - so time to get a party organized! In the past, it's just been family parties. But since it's 5 this year, we decided to let him have 5 friends over for a little party. We're hosting "Lego-Mania". I'm having fun looking around for ideas and trying to come up with stuff. Here's what I'm doing for the invites...

I decided to make some Legos. I made 4 different kinds so I could choose which one was easiest to make, which one looked the best, etc. The first one is cardstock on little pop-up foam dots. Cute, and had lots of supplies for those - but hard to line up the dots as you can tell!
The next two choices have foam bases. The one on the left has foam dots glued on, the one on the right has metal brads. The foam dots were static-y and stuck to the hole punch. The brads were easiest, but most expensive and in the least supply.
This was another foam attempt. I hand-cut the foam circles and stuck them on bigger pop dots. Too high of a rise, and too annoying to cut out as many circles as I was going to want. Plus I just didn't like the jagged look on the little circles.

So here's what I finally decided on... On the front, I used a green crayon and did a rubbing with a Lego base plate underneath. Using a LEGO font, I typed out the front of the card "Join us for Lego-Mania", put it on colored paper, and used a couple big circle brads. Then I made 5 Lego blocks - yellow, red, green, blue and black - and put them on the green crayon-rubbed base plate. I ended up going with the all-foam example from the middle picture. (It probably would have been easier to just buy Legos and stick them on. But not nearly as much fun!)(Can you tell my son loves LEGO?!!! See the little black and white car in front - he put that together all by himself!!!)
The inside just has the details - birthday, time, address, etc. Simple.
I'm working on what to do for a little goody bag, so more Lego stuff coming up in a week or two. And a cake - I've got big plans ;)