You're Sublime Disney Ariel

The Little Mermaid is a firm favourite of many a little girl and there's one little girl that I know, who's soon to turn four. This little girl is having Ariel herself visit her and a group of her friends at her Under the Sea Tea Party. What a lovely theme! 

I was commissioned to create some special invites to celebrate this wonderful birthday that precedes her starting school ... and this was what I came up with.   

Knowing that the Mum liked the style of a pocket card, I created the front to have a cut out shaker section, to simulate water bubbles of being Under the Sea and added the fun image of the crab. The colours of the card stock used was to replicate that of Ariel, with the Aqua blues and Purples. I was thrilled with how they worked out. Labour intensive, but well worth it and something really quite different. 

Don't these make you wish you were this age again to be enjoying such exciting Birthday Parties?

If you'd like to learn how to make cards like these, then consider coming along to one of my Craft Classes and I'll teach you the skills to be able to. There is nothing more rewarding than making your own Child's Birthday cards, invites and cakes. 

Here's hoping they have a very snappy day!

Happy Dirtday

We've just celebrated our son's 2nd Birthday and what little boy isn't rather partial to a digger or dump truck? ...... so I couldn't resist but use the wonderfully fun 'I Dig You' Stamp set from the 2012-2013 Annual Catalogue (122720 Wood £24.95/122722 Clear mount £19.95) to make not only his Birthday invites, but to decorate his favour bags, treats and generally use as the theme of the day. 

I used a simple Brown Craft bag (no handles) for the favour bags, using some Daffodil Delight DSP as a background banner strip, with a mounted rosette of Early Espresso polka dot DSP from the retired Berry Blossoms range (Spring mini Catalogue 2012). The Truck is mounted on a 3" Big Shot Circle Die and the truck was inked up using Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight and black for the tyres.

I saw these spades somewhere on the net and took inspiration in making up Chocolate coated Rice Krispie and Raisin rubble in the spade end as a little treat, attaching a simple "I dig you" tag with another truck scooping up soft suede rubble along the way. The Postcard invitation was a simple little card, which I mainly printed, adding the truck afterwards using some dimension for interest and height. I did very similar with the Thank you cards, but included the fun little parcels printed in amongst the dirt.

I also made some simple bunting, using the Pennant Parade punch and the circle die with trucks, to drape behind the food on display.

It was a fun set to use and a very versatile one .... that I may end up using for a few Valentine cards from our son to his lovely girlie friends ;)