Speed Racer birthday invitation

I made these invites for my youngest's 2nd birthday next month, I can't believe he's almost 2 - I just had him yesterday, didn't I??!

Since we got him a big race car track for his birthday, I decided to go with the race car theme for his party!  I used the race car from Boys Will Be Boys cricut cart.  I used Kraft cardstock for the base and some new cardstock for the race car that I got from JoAnn's last week, I really like it - it cut so great in my cricut and embossed perfectly in my cuttlebug!  I used the diamond plate embossing folder for the circle behind the car, twine from We R Memory Keepers, the speed racer sentiment is from My Pink Stamper and I used the Teeny Tag Greetings stamp and matching tag die from My Creative Time for the "You're Invited" tag.

On the inside, I put a piece of the grey cardstock that matches the circle on the front then I will print the party details and adhere them to the grey cardstock and it'll be ready to mail.

I'm entering this into this week's challenge at My Craft Spot: Announcements & Invitations.

Onesie baby shower invitation

Good morning!   I hope everyone is enjoying their holiday weekend, today is my day to post at The Bug Bytes!

Here's a sneak peek of my project - please go here to see all the details and a step-by-step of how I put it together!

I will post them again, once we decide on the final design when we know boy or girl!  

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Memorial Day!!

1st birthday party invitations - farm animal theme

I'm DONE!!  They went in the mail Tuesday morning, so everyone got them yesterday!!  :-)  I love the way they turned out, so cute and exactly what I pictured!!

I used the Pop-Up Neighborhood cart for everything except the '1', its from the Creative Memories Cheerful Seasons cart, I welded the card base together with my Gypsy, all the cardstock is Recollections and the sentiment stamp is from My Pink Stamper 'Sweet Baby' set.  The barn door is embossed using my Cuttlebug and the embossing folder 'Forest Branches'.

I printed the inside on cardstock with my printer then rounded the corners with my Fiskars corner rounder and added the pig!

Then I used a stamp from Hero Arts to decorate the envelope!

I ended up using the MS scoreboard and directions I found here, to make the envelope.  I had a comment last week on my post about these, telling me that the MS scoreboard had directions for a 6x6 envelope on it.  That was actually the reason I bought it and did try it but the envelope was HUGE, at least 6.5x6.5 vs 6x6 like it said, so it didn't work.  But luckily I cound the other directions and they worked perfectly and I didn't even need extra postage, just a plain 'ole stamp!

Thanks for stopping by!  Next I have to make his banner and thank you notes, so hopefully those will go much quicker then the invites!  :-)  Have a great day!

Some progress!

I've worked until the early morning hours most of the week and have made a good dent in making my son's birthday pary invitations!  They still aren't done, but I wanted to show you what they look like so far!

I have all the animals pieced together (which was so tedious with them being small and I'm making 28 invites!) as well as the card fronts. I just need to cut the card bases and make a final decision about where to put the "1" as well as if I will put an "Its a Party" stamp on the front or not.  In an effort to save time and not drive myself even more crazy with making these, no inking or other fanciness (other then embossing my barn door, couldn't help myself!) - so just plain and simple on these!  :-)

I used my new favorite cart, Pop-Up Neighborhood, to make everything on these cards!  The card base is cut at 5.75 x 5.75 and the animals at 1.5".  I embossed the barn door using the Cuttlebug embossing folder 'Forest Branches' to make it look like an old barn door.  Then I pop-dotted the animals up to give them some dimension! 

All the cardstock is Recollections from Michaels - this was my first time using this cardstock and I love it - it cuts beautifully in my Cricut and is very heavyweight!  It will definitely be my main brand from now on!

The inside will be easy, just need to add a layer then print the party details and add the little pig!  For the card base, I welded two barns together using my Gypsy, then removed the cuts for the door and window and cut it in Kraft cardstock.  Then I cut another barn in my barn red cardstock and applied it to the card base - it worked out perfectly to cut the base then another front, so my barn roof wasn't flat but I still had the shaped card that I wanted!

What's giving me the most difficult time is the envelopes!  :-(  I bought a Martha Stewart scoreboard this week, in hopes of being able to make the envelopes using a piece of 12x12 paper (or smaller) vs using my cricut where the envelopes would need a 12x24 piece of paper for that size. 

My cards are 5.75 x 5.75 but of course, trying to find a guide as to how big to cut the paper as well as where to score, is easier said then done.  I'm going to keep searching and hope I can find something online!

I'm at 15 days until the party, so cutting it really short and of course, I have to work all weekend.  :-(  So with any luck, I will get these finished up and ready to mail by Tuesday - I have a feeling that Monday night will be another late one trying to get these done since I won't be able to work on them again until after I get a couple hours of sleep on Monday morning after getting off work!  I will post the finished invite early next week, so come back to see it all done!

Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend, thanks for stopping by!

1st Birthday party invitation

Our youngest son turns 1 in September, so I've started working on his birthday invitations.  I'm going to do a farm animal theme and decided to try a flat invitation vs one that opens. 

I used Animal Kingdom Cricut cart for the cow, Country Life Cricut cart for the pig/chicken and Just a Note Cricut cart for 'party'.  All the paper/cardstock is from my stash.

Of course my printer choose tonight to die on me - GRR!!  But my husband reminded me that I've been wanting a wireless printer, which I have, but now isn't the time I wanted to spend the money on buying one!  :(  So I couldn't print out the cute little poem I'm putting on it, as well as the party info but that will go in the blank spaces.

Please excuse the poor lighting in my picture, while I was trying to get my printer to work, the sun went down and I lost all the natural light for my picture! :( This definitely hasn't been my night but I really wanted to get this done so I could submit it for a challenge!

I'm entering this in the first challenge at Cricut 360º - design an invitation!  Cricut 360º is a fun new challenge blog that started this month and I'm excited to participate!!

Dinosaur birthday!

Our 2 yr old loves dinosaurs right now, so he's very excited to have a dinosaur themed 3rd birthday party!  I started working last night on his invitations - I love the way they turned out!!

Next I will be working on his thank you notes as well as his 'Happy Birthday' banner!  I've never made a banner with my cricut before, so I'm anxious to try it out!