My Daughter’s Birthday Invitations

(Originally posted on November 10, 2008)

So, my baby girl (yes, she’s our middle child at the moment but she’ll always be our baby girl!) is turning 4 next month.  I can’t even believe it.  Of course she’s crazy excited for her party and has been busy making her own invitations for weeks now (not that any of them make their way out of the craft room or are remotely understandable!).  So yesterday I made her ‘real’ invitations.  Her favorite color is blue and she always asks for the green plate at lunch so I used those two colors as my starting point.  I loved the brightness of the Glossy White and using the blender pen on the Glossy White CS on my cupcake card earlier this week and I wanted to do something signifying ‘4′ (see the 4 balloons?), and I also like to try to use up some retired SU! items I have lying around.  With all that in mind, here’s what I ended up with.  (And apparently she likes them because all of her grandparents visited yesterday at some point and she showed her invites to all of them unprompted!)  I wish I could say the layout was all my idea but it wasn’t.  Something has to give, right? LOL So I CASEd the layout from ’sepia’ on SCS. 

Supply List

Stamp Set:
Crazy for Cupcakes
Lots of Thoughts (retired)
Inks: 
Old Olive Classic, Jet Black Stazon
Markers: Always Artichoke, Certainly Celery, Old Olive
Ink Refill: Cool Caribbean (retired)
Card Stock: 
Certainly Celery (8.5" x 5.5")
Always Artichoke (4" x 5.25")
Cool Caribbean (retired) (3.75" x 5")
Old Olive (4" x 3.25")
Glossy White (3.75" x 3")
A retired DSP which I think might be Petal Patch, but I’m not 100% sure (1.5" x 4")
Embellishments:
Always Artichoke brads (retired)
Punches:
1-3/8" circle, scallop circle, crop-a-dile
Accessories: 
blender pen, dimensionals 

Another Color Challenge

(Originally posted on November 6, 2008)

Okay, I think I just made Kristina’s deadline.  Boy, these colors were fun to work with once I finally got an idea!!!!!  It took SEVERAL tries and several stamp sets before I finally did this one.  It’s a litle bit simpler but I like how it turned out.  I CASED the layout from page 19 of the Holiday Mini Catalog.  And I cheated a teeny tiny bit and used Glossy White CS instead of Whisper White CS like Kristina put forth in her Color Challenge.  I used the Glossy White because I really wanted the cupcake to be bright and colorful and with such dark colors it just wasn’t looking right on plain Whisper White.  Plus I love the way a blender pen glides over Glossy White CS.

So, what do you think?  I know the blue watercoloring looks the same but the cupcake base was done in Pacific Point and the candle and sprinkles were colored in Taken with Teal.  And like how I snuck in a touch of Pumpkin Pie with the flame?

Supply List

Stamp Sets:
Crazy for Cupcakes, Polka Dot Background
Inks:
CLASSIC: Taken with Teal, Pumpkin Pie, Pacific Point, Elegant Eggplant, Jet Black Stazon
Card Stock: 
Elegant Eggplant (8.5" x 5.5")
Glossy White (2.25" x 3")
Pumpkin Pie (2-3/8" x 3-1/8")
Taken with Teal (2-5/8" x 3-3/8")
Embellishments:
Pacific Point Striped Ribbon
Punch:
My Way
Accessories: 
blender pen, dimensionals