Happy Birthday Princess

This is a birthday card I made for a little girl turning 5. She loves Sleeping Beauty. I cut her out at 4 inches along with all her layers. I used a vellum sticker I had to cover an epoxy patterned drop to say You're 5 Today. I printed the "May all your birthday dreams come true" off my computer. For the inside I took a piece of Sleeping Beauty ribbon I had left over from pictures of a Disney trip we took and glues down three sides and made it into a gift card holder with two epoxy stickers to make sure the glue holds along with another vellum sticker I had that said Happy Birthday.

Happy Birthday In Bloom

This is the third image sent to us for March by Deligthful inspirations. You can read about the challenge here and you can see all of her stamps at Designed2Delight digital stamps. I made the image into a card by making the image 6 inches and printing it out. Then I flipped the image and printed it again on brown cardstock. I cut a little below the line of the bottom of the pot and then cut off the flowers for the back of the card. I colored my image and attached my sentiment. Then I folded the brown cardstock over a little and ran my tape runner along the folded down part and glued it to the back of the lip of the pot. I put a cream piece of cardstock on the back so that I can write a birthday message to my mom. She loves flowers, any type of flowers but her house is so full of them she does not want anymore and that is what I usually buy her for her birthday so I decided to make her some.

I am also entering this card in the following challenges:
Artful Inkables - Birthday
All Sorts Challenge - Spring is in the Air
The Secret Crafter - Spring has Sprung
Frosted Design - Spring use a flower
Crafty Catz - Spring

Happy Birthday Ian

This is a card I made for The Greeting Farm's birthday challenge. I colored MerIan with my colored pencils. The dp is from the DCWV Caribbean stack. I used a turtle charm I picked up at Michael's. I attached the turtle to the teal chiffon ribbon with one of Tim Holtz's trinket pins that says "Findings". The "Birthday Wishes" is a vellum sticker from a Creative Memories pack I had in my stash. I made the inside into a gift card holder using the same dp and attached a velcro dot to the top flap to secure the gift card inside the card. TFL

Pictures of Birthday Party

Here is the centerpieces Karen, my sister-in-law, and I made for my DH and his twin brother's 40th birthday party. I made the black center label from Storybook cart with the "40" being from the Gypsy Wandering on my Gypsy and cut it with my Cricut and then place a blue shiny cardstock behind it to make the 40 pop out:


Here is a picture of the cake Karen made, she made two, one for each brother. There is a picture from when the were babies and a picutre of them at my wedding and the cake says Happy [candle] 40 Birthday:

The pictures are not that good but they looked really nice in person.

TFL

Party Over

The party is over, whoohoo. It was a success even though he said he found out about it on Wednesday or Thursday. That's alright, it was only a day or two before the party and he never let on. Although with him being such a boob about everything on Friday and Saturday morning and causing me excessive stress full well knowing about the party, well that is something he is going to have to beg forgiveness for LOL. The party turned out nice and a lot of people showed up even though the roads were not in the best of conditions. Even at 6:30 pm they were still icy and slushy. I am just glad that the snow stopped in the morning or we would never have been able to have the party because I had to wait until 11:30 to leave the house to go decorate when I was planning on going at 10. DH may have known about the party but I am not sure if he knew how big it was going to be. He seemed to really enjoy himself after getting over the "I hate being in the spotlight" thing.

TGIF

I am done with all the projects for the surprise party tomorrow. I think I have ordered, arranged, delegated and completed everything that I can. Now the only thing left to do is decorate tomorrow morning while DH is working and to get him there without him knowing what is going on tomorrow night. It will be easy getting him to the restaurant but getting him upstairs to the banquet room is another story. He is going to be so mad which hopefully he will get over real fast. He does not like to be in the spotlight and with so many people coming, he is going to be upset that I put him there but I think he will enjoy himself and like it once he gets over the initial shock. It has been so hard to keep this from him because I tell him everything, he is my sounding board and I usually show him all my projects and ask him what he thinks. He is usually pretty good about telling me if I am missing something on a project or if it looks great or if I should just chuck it.

Lying

Ok, it is getting harder to get away from DH to work on stuff for his surprise party. I have been lying for a month now and he is starting to question everything. I am so glad it will be over with this weekend so I can stop lying and say, this is what I have been doing for the past month not shopping, going out with the girls, helping my niece with a school project, etc. I just need him to go away, and take the kids, for 5 hours so I can get everything done for this weekend. When I suggested he take the kids somewhere so I can work on Christmas, he said he would this weekend. Well that is not going to help anything because his party is this weekend. If he would just cooperate with me for a little while everything will work out. Urgghh. I have to finish the picture board, etch the beer steins and finish the favors. What lie can I tell him to get everything done by Thursday since we are getting our fireplace fixed on Friday. I have run out of ideas. I need a good lie that will get him out of the house for a while instead of me leaving so I can work on stuff there. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know. Anywho, it is almost over, whooohoooo.

Birthday Party

My husband is turning 40 and is a twin so my SIL and I are trying to plan a surprise birthday party for them which is 8 days away. It is very hectic trying to make centerpieces and favors because I cannot make them at home. I have designed quite a few ideas on my Gypsy but can't cut them on the Cricut because he always comes in to see what I am working on when I go to my craft space. I love the fact that he is interested in what I am working on but sometimes it is annoying because I can never make anything for him and sometimes I go in there to have some private, alone, me time. Sorry but I had to vent. I am going to another SIL's house tonight to cut out my designs for the centerpieces and favors, she is going to help me make them and then she will keep them for me until the party. I will post some pictures after I make the centerpieces and favors. Hope they turn out.