A Minnie Mouse Party

Kinzy is turning 2

and she is in love with Minnie Mouse! I made this banner on my Cricut and I love how it turned out...I have only made a couple of these but this is my favorite so far. I had a roll of white tulle I bought awhile back and never used, so I thought I would try using a bit and ended up using it to hang it by rather  than ribbon and love the way it turned out. 

I made my own Minnie Mouse...easy, and 

and downloaded a Disney Script.

These are the cupcake toppers I made...I searched for my image, tweaked it a little, printed it, and made these little cuties.

my first time making these too...I made 50!

With the extra tags I pulled out these little boxes I had on hand (Dollar Tree wedding area find), and added a little curly ribbon...I made 20 of these for the kids to take home. These little boxes are not very big so I suggest being creative with little trinkets. 

                                                                              ENJOY!

Graduation

yard signs for the grad

I made these graduation decorations for my nieces high school graduation party last year. I used my Cricut to cut out the letters and grad hats using Make The Cut software. 

I used little jelly jars and added flowers, I printed some sayings off on the computer. 

Here's another one, they were very simple and placed on the all the tables.

Here is a card I made, the basic idea came from a scrap book magazine I was browsing through once while waiting for an appointment....I can't remember the name.

 We needed a gift drop box so I made up this graduation hat card box.

I also made, water bottle labels, and set out a framed photo of the grad at the gift table.

The lighting is very yellow in my kitchen, I know now a little better how to deal with the lighting.

ENJOY!

Elmo Birthday Party

Last year for Kinzy's First Birthday, her mom and dad threw her an Elmo Birthday Party and her mom asked me to come up with an outfit for the party.  I started off making this tutu, I had never made one before but it was super easy, all you need is tule in your choice of colors, (I used red and white from Joann's), and a spool of big red satin ribbon for the bow. At first I thought I would try tying the tule to a length of the red ribbon that would fit around her waist, but later decided to use an elastic headband that was soft and very stretchy, it work perfect! Add a big satin bow (sew it on) and there you have it, a tutu.

Then I decided she needed a shirt, I had seen a really cute embroidered Elmo shirt somewhere awhile back, and I have made quit a few iron shirts in the past, so naturally I thought I would make an Iron-on. Using Elmo's head or body, then add a little text with the birthday girls name and you have a really cute, inexpensive t-shirt. I made a really big flower head band to match using stuff I already had on hand, and there you have a cute little birthday outfit  for the birthday girl.

 There were no tutorials involved here, as I searched for Elmo ideas I came across similar styles to this outfit, most had party hats and embroidered Elmo's, you can even buy them online but they were much more than I wanted to spend and I knew I could get the look for less if I made it myself.

Here is a picture of the birthday girl...she just woke up from a nap, the party was at the park and it was really hot, so she just wore a diaper under her tutu, she didn't even want to wear her shoes or the headband!

This year it's Minnie Mouse!