You Party Animal!

While I have never been a really big party-theme-decoration person I must admit that I had a blast preparing for my granddaughter's first birthday. My daughters, daughter in law and I make a good team!

We made the banner from Pink Pirouette and (retired) close to cocoa Patterns Designer Series Paper. We cut it so we got one whole and one pieced triangle from one sheet of paper. I could match the pattern for the pieced ones on all but one pattern.We stapled the pennants on Pink Pirouette striped grosgrain ribbon, overlapping the top corners slightly. We punched circles and scalloped circles from the same paper and used them to cover the staples and attached more scalloped circles with clear thread to the bottom of the pennants. Karen Brown let me use her Cricut to cut the letters - Thanks Karen!
We used the scalloped punch with the circle punch again to make pics to go in the cupcakes with "1"stamped on one side and "R" for Ruby stamped on the other. We used some retired DSP with the scallop punch and attached it to toothpics to go in the cupcakes.

It was really fun!
Happy birthday Ruby

PS Credit for all but one picture go to my son Christian,
and I had to include one of the birthday girl enjoying her cake.

Christmas tags

Here are some Christmas tags we did recently using all kinds of punches.
This is not my original idea but I think I got it from Stampin' UP
they were designed by Mercedes Weber and altered slightly by me (of course)
The colors are Baja Breeze, Kiwi Kiss, Riding hood Red, close to cocoa, chocolate chip, Pumpkin pie, black, Blush blossom and for the penguin's scarf Bella Blooms? dsp.
I used a sizzix die in my cuttle bug to make the tags.

Hint - all small pieces were attached with liquid glue, place a dot of glue where you want it and use the tip of your scissors or a paper piercer to move the tiny dot into place

I made Rudolph into a topper for a bag.
I used the new large oval punch, boho blossoms punch, 1/2 inch circle, a standard hole punch, and 1/4 inch circle, boho blossoms punch, and large oval and 3/4 inch circle for the antlers.

Frosty used a 1 1/4" square, word window, 1 3/8"circle, double circle, large star (one point only) and the boho blossoms punch for the holly
hint- glue the leaves on first and then add the berries.

Three flowers or Boho blossoms works too, 1 3/8 circle punch, 1/2 " circle, word window, double circle, standard hole punch, scalloped square cut in half, pink for nose and cheeks using eraser.
Glitter as desired.

1 3/8" circle, older large and small ovals, 1" circle, Boho blossoms, double circle.

Punched Pumpkins

It's October 1st. I guess I need to let go of summer and embrace fall. I have been seeing punched pumpkins on splitcoast for sometime and finally decided to try it. What do you think?

Paper: Pumpkin pie (of course), Old olive.
Ink: Pumpkin Pie, Old olive, Chocolate chip
Stamps: Baroque Motifs & Fresh Cuts
Other: Small and large oval punches, 1 1/4 circle punch, Chocolate chip taffeta ribbon. chocolate chip poly twill ribbon and sponge daubers

It Started with Frankie

I cased this from my uplines' convention swap, I wish I knew who to give credit to. It's made almost all from punches. The colors are Kiwi Kiss and Perfect Plum. I couldn't stop there though. I needed a friend for him. I did a search on splitcoast and found this vampire, tweaked it a little and came up with this:
Edward would be proud. But I started to feel a little sexist and besides, three makes a better set. The witch took some work to get her to look right but here she is:

At this point I was pretty much done but then I remembered seeing a mummy and decided to see if I could make just one more:

Poor Karen Brown, she needed five cards so she could have one for each of her grandkids. We didn't want to exclude those who prefer Jacob over Edward so:
Here's our werewolf.
We will be doing these cards on October 2nd from 12:30 to 2:00
Let me know if I can reserve one (or a few) for you!