Birthday Banner

Keeping in line with the birthday invites, here is the wicked fun Birthday Banner we did for our little man's upcoming big day.  Inspiration is from all over the internet.  I made the whole thing using the Cricut.  Love that thing!  Here's a round up of what we used:

* Georges and Basic Shapes Cricut cartridge (circles and letters)
* Dinosaur Tracks Cricut cartridge (Dino tags)
* South Beach paper pad (used the Orange Green and Blue only)
* White and Black cardstock (Michaels)
* Blue and Green ribbon (Michaels)
* Paper Clips (Dollorama)
* Random adhesives (scotch tape, glue stick and liquid glue stick)

Started off by making 2 sizes of circles.  The colored ones are 5inches (as per Cricut sizing), and the smaller white ones are 4 inches.  The letters were printed using the shadows of the George letters, in 3 and a half size (a few are bigger, but not by much).  We wanted to be funky, so we put the circles at the edges, rather than right in the middle, and left the letters centered.  I love the effect it gave us!

Our letters and fun Dinosaurs.  You can see the ribbon on the side too.

To hang them, we debated a few things.  Since a few of the letters are very close to the top, our original idea of making slots and pass the ribbon right through was quickly shot.  Hubby came up with the solution of just hanging them with paper clips!  I do love the idea, and it's working out quite well.  No worry of tearing, and we can easily re-use the ribbon after too.  I can't wait to hang them for his birthday!! :)

Close up and the paper clips.  Nothing fancy, but it works.

See?  Not bad, huh?

First part of our great banner.

Second portion.  They will be hung one on top of the other.

So, worthy of Pinterest?  Teehee!

Cheers,

The little Nicosaurus' birthday

Growing up, I never had big birthday parties, and that's one thing I am rather sad about.  For some reason, I just love birthday parties!  The planning, the cake, the people.  I got my first real birthday party a couple of years ago actually (a Tinkerbell themed one to boot!  Complete with Cosmos.  Teehee) and it was such a blast.  I couldn't wait to have our own kids and plan parties myself.

Sure enough, fast forward a couple of years, and here we are, with an almost 1 year old of our own.  Man, time has just flown by!  And, we're planning our little man's first birthday.  Our nickname for him almost since he was born has been Nicosaurus, cause he was growling and making some rather pre-historic sounding noises from an early stage.  It stuck, and sure enough, the theme for his first birthday is Dinosaurs.  So far, we've gotten the invites done, and I love them!  They aren't quite what I had in mind originally, but hubby's idea was too cute to not do (I can do mine for the Thank You cards later).  So, here they are, our fun Dino party invites!

Aren't they adorable little dinos?

It was a bit long to glue all those tiny pieces, but so worth it.

The Cricut came in beyond handy for this!!  The teeth are made from Triangles, and the nostrils from apostrophes in the George and Basic Shapes cartridge.  All the letters are from the Dinosaur Tracks cartridge.  So many more plans for that little machine in the planning of this birthday.  I should have more soon, there isn't much time left after all.  EEK!!

I can't wait to hand them out this weekend!  Especially since last Easter was the day we ended up going into labor, after family supper.  It'll be odd to be there this year with the tiny little person that came so soon after it last year.

Cheers!

Baby shower fun!

I love babies.  I especially love baby showers.  Even more so now that I can do fun things for them!  A lovely friend of mine just had her baby shower a few weeks ago, and I was so glad she invited me to join in on that fun.  I adore shopping for little baby things (especially when I know what people want), and I've discovered I love making little baby things even more.

One of the fun things I got to make was a beautiful football themed baby hat.  She had a similar one on her registry, and I thought I'd try my hand at it.  Worse that happened was no one ever knew about my failed attempt and that was that.  It turned out so much better than anticipated though.  I'm completely in love with the hat I made.  So much so, I decided to make another smaller one for her too (the first one ended up being much bigger than I anticipated), so the little man will have a football hat for a few months at least.

I may have forgotten to take pics of my own, so here's the one she took.  You should have seen the cute card I made her too!

Isn't it adorably cute?!  The pattern was taken from this site: Football Hat  Obviously, I didn't make the little ear portion, but otherwise, I just followed their pattern.

Now, I cannot wait to meet this new little man in a few weeks, as I think mommy-to-be would agree on!

A co-worker of mine just had their first little man also this week (earlier than anticipated), and I just finished the cute bear hat I wanted to make for him.  I'm pretty happy with this one also, seeing it's the first time I had to make separate parts and sew them together.

A fuzy beat hat.  Cute, huh?

Had to find someone to model it for me ;)  She wasn't happy about it...

 The ears are a bit different in the middle, I need to work on that, but otherwise, I think the fuzz makes it fun and different.  What do you think?

Cheers!