Angel Birthday Invite

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share some invitations that I made for my friend's daughter.  It is her 1st birthday and my friend picked the Angel from Once Upon A Princess.  I have been working on these in my free time for the past week...kinda hard with a 3 year old but I managed to get it done! :)  She helped me emboss the white layers so that was nice...and she really enjoyed helping mommy with her "work".  That's what I call it when I am crafting so that she will have a sense of the importance of NOT messing with Mommy's work or anything in Mommy's "office/scraproom".  In theory, it's a great idea but it does not work most of the time...LOL.  She is my biggest fan though and that makes me so happy!

Anyway, here are the invites.  Let me know what you think....

 Nicole T.

Birthday Invitation

Hi All,

Here is the final result of the invitation.  Thank you so much for your input.  I did end up using example #1for the invitation.  I also added some ribbon (just to kick it up a notch) from Michaels that happened to match perfectly!  My friend really loved the invites - so that makes me happy.  Plus the little ballerina does kind of look like her daughter, which was my goal.

Thanks for looking!

3rd Birthday Card

Hi All,

Well, as usual, I waited until the last minute to make a birthday card for one of my daughter's classmates.  The birthday party was at 12 PM and I started the card this morning.  This should not seem like a hard task, but when you have a little 3 year old at home who likes to "help"....

Anyway, the little boy was having a firetruck at his party, so I came up with the brilliant idea to make a card with a firetruck (at the last minute).  As I am new at this stuff, everything takes me a little longer that perhaps some of the more seasoned crafters.  I did use my gypsy to prepare everything to be cut so that did help a lot!  Love my Gypsy...wish I used it more.

Here is the card that I came up with.  I actually was pretty pleased with the end result but wish I would have had more time as I would have blinged up the card a little bit more.  Perhaps used some glossy accent on the jacket, hat, tires, ladder....maybe the whole darn card! LOL!

Details: Everyday Paper Dolls, everything cut at 4"(except water hose, water drop, head & fire hydrant), Sesame Street Font for #3, MPS Simply Sweet Occasions stamps, Cuttlebug, Faded Jeans Distressed Ink, Silver Pen & Embossing Ink Pad for ladder/wheels, Peachy Keen stamps (messed up a little when stamping but no time to fix it.  I know....that's what happens when you wait until the last minute. :(

Hope you enjoy....Nicole

Card Front

Card Inside

3rd Birthday Party Invitation

Hi All!

Wanted to share a photo of the invitations for my daughter's 3rd birthday party.  They did not come out as I originally planned.  My daughter and I were both sick the week that I started making the invitations and by the end I was just so happy to have something to give her friends, I didn't care what they looked like.  Not to mention, I ran out of supplies, etc. and was also preparing for our trip to Los Angeles for a week.  (I actually started asking myself why didn't I just buy a couple packs of invitations from Target - but I quickly pushed that idea aside).  How could I justify the amount of money I spend on this hobby and NOT make my own invitations.  LOL!

Anyway, here they are.  Not perfect, but I got them done (25 of them) before we left for Los Angeles.