Sunday, March 18, 2012

BirthdayScrap

Finally got around to scrapbooking Riner's first birthday. Here it is...

Friday, March 9, 2012

Riner's Party



Riner's Birthday Party was awesome. I had the AMAZING Erica Mowell come and take pictures (www.ericamowellphotography.com) I made every decoration, and I had a blast throwing this party. I will share with you some of the things I made, and share how I made them.




1. Happy Birthday Banner. I cut out triangles out of 8X11.5 scrapbooking paper. I wrinkled the paper to make it look less like scrapbooking paper. I then cut out the letter from my cricut. I glued on the letters. I then hot glued the triangles to yarn. This was super easy, and I am thinking I will keep for future Birthday Parties.




2. I had the idea for a cpncession stand as I was trying to decide what I wanted the food to be. We had all kinds of concession stand food. Nachos, Pizza, Popcorn, Candy, Hot Dogs. I wanted a concession stand sign, so I got black poster board, and bordered it with Scrapbooking paper. I then took some chalk and wrote the food that we were having on the poster board. DO NOT spray it with anything. It will make the chalk disappear.





3. Concession Stand Signs- I Cut out circles and the words from my Cricut. I glued them onto a skewer. I then poked them into an apple.



4. Since it was a sports themed birthday party, I decided to make the presents table a place to "make bets". I made the sign with the black poster bard I messed up on when I tried to spray the concession stand sign. I bought the money from the dollar store.




5. I wanted there to be games for the bigger kids that would be at the party, so I set up little sports stations. It wasn't much because I didn't have that many older kids at the party, but I made the signs with of course my Cricut and I bought 89 cents sticks from Walmart. I put them through apples and placed the apples in a solo cup.  It worked out great.





6. Become a Pro- I wanted to do something fun with pictures. I love pictures, and I wanted to make something you could take pictures with. I order cheap 2$ posters online. I then cut out the faces, and put it on a cardboard box. This was fun, and I really liked them.






7. The frames were my favorite thing I made. I loved looking through the MILLIONS of pictures to pick my favorites. I bought 1$ walmart wooden frames. I painted them 4 different colors, and then I stenciled on the pictures.








8. My cupcakes were done by the AMAZING Becky Light. They were beautiful and tasty. I cut out pictures of Riner, and then hot glued them onto skewers. Them put them into the cupcakes. The stupid cupcake liners were expensive and pretty, but they wouldn't stick to the cupcake. They were from Hobby Lobby... so be warned.