Superhero Birthday Girl Invitations

Kelly asked me to design some girly superhero invitations for her daughter's 2nd birthday. I love how these turned out!

And the back:

Kelly also had me design a banner that said "Super Kelsey":

We also did stickers for the favor bags:

Turtle invites

Kelly asked me to create invitations for her daughter's first birthday. She wanted to use a turtle theme and include some photos of the birthday girl. Here's what I came up with:

I also created a matching banner for the mantel:

Close-up of the turtle:

We did a mini banner for the highchair, too:

And oval labels for the candy buffet favor bags!

Construction Party details

Yesterday I shared the invitations I made for my son's Construction themed birthday party. Here are some of the details we had.

Sawhorse set up at the end of the driveway with balloons (including a dump truck mylar balloon from dollar tree!). A sign read "Builder's Entrance" and the sawhorse was flanked by traffic cones. A sign that said "Dietrich's Construction Site" hung near the mailbox:

A "Hard Hat Area" sign was taped to the gate door, and 2 saw horses were set up and held construction hates, each with a personalized sticker. The stickers had a "3" ghosted in the background with "DGRR 3 Builders Construction Crew" running around the edges:

I made a banner that hung from the fence and read "Dietrich is 3!". A "Dig In!" sign was taped to the fence above the food table, and some small wooden toolboxes I built from Home Depot kits held napkins and silverware:

Playtime! We had the regular sandbox (which we labeled an "Excavation Site" and hid bags with candy and easter eggs filled with coins for the kids to dig up), the truck sandbox, and a wrecking ball game using the cardboard brick blocks and a ball:

The cake was a chocolate layer cake and I decorated it with a dump truck toy filled with chocolate cake balls which ran down the side of the cake. We also had chocolate and funfetti cupcakes with homemade chocolate tool disk toppers:

The favors were sand buckets filled with Construction Dough (cans of play doh with custom labels), construction tools (some playdoh tools in a cellophane bag), bubbles, construction truck stickers, and builder's chalk. Each was wrapped up with some yellow cellophane and had a tag with each child's name on it. A large round sticker said "Thanks for Digging with me!"  For the adults, I made dump truck lollipops and small chocolate dump truck candies. They were individually packaged in cellophane bags and then went into the yellow chevron bags with a small tag stapled on. All of the pieces used orange & white baker's twine as an accent.

Basketball First Birthday

Jen contacted me over the summer to create invitations and stationery for her son's first birthday. The theme was Basketball—namely, Dylan's Rookie Year!

I had so much fun with all of these pieces.

Invitation and coordinating return address envelope seals:

Cupcake wrappers and cupcake picks:

Mounted & Easelbacked sign for the craft table:

Round stickers for the favors:

Banner that says "Happy 1st Birthday Dylan" with basketballs as the spacers between words:

"Rookie Year" month-to-month poster to display at the party:

Happy First Birthday, Dylan! 

Airplane 2nd Birthday -- Details!

I posted yesterday about my son's Airplane Themed 2nd Birthday. Here are some of the details from the party:

Arrivals sign with some balloons -- I love the blue ones with the clouds I found online!

Welcome sign attached to our backyard gate:

"Happy 2nd Birthday Dietrich" Banner hanging from the fence above the food table:

Custom water bottle labels:

Red & White Paper straws with disks:

Decorate your foam glider craft:

The cake -- airplane shaped chocolate cake with buttercream frosting. I ran out of time (lost my motivation) by this point, so we just kept it white:

Make a wish!

Not-so-great pic of me and the birthday boy (note our pilot's wings!):

 Baggage Claim Area: Black "luggage" favor tags for the kids and the suitcase filled with favors for the adults:

Inside the bags were a pair of sunglasses, temporary tattoos, a punching bag balloon, and a lollipop:

Custom-made favor pouches held 1 oz. bags of Planters Peanuts for the adults -- it's just not an airplane party without peanuts! 

The Departures sign had everyone leave through the backyard gate instead of going through the house:

This child did not stop playing until we brought him up to bed...

B-A-N-N-E-R-S!

One of the new products I'm offering is customized banners designed to match my birthday and shower invitations. I created one for Dietrich's first birthday using his month-to-month photos and I got great feedback on it from our party guests.

For Jennifer, I created a circular banner that spells out "Jennifer's Shower"  with the elephant from her invitations on each end and between the words.

close up:

cute little elephant!

For Maggie, the banner spells out "Happy birthday Maggie!" with owls in between the words

close-up