Mickey Mouse Banner

There will be a birthday party very soon for a little boy that will be turning two. This little boy, who happens to be my youngest grandson, loves to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. It has been a favorite of his for quite some time.
My daughter has decided that the theme of his 2nd birthday will be Mickey Mouse. I am going to be making some of the decorations for his special day. The first thing I am going to share with you was inspired by a banner that was found on Pinterest. You can view it here. As most of you know already, I do not like to copy someone elses work. I ended up using some ideas from the one on Pinterest, but I made it a lot different in the end.

This took quite a bit of time to make. The reason is because I had to really think how I wanted it to look. There is still one more thing I am going to do to it, but I can't until the end of this month. I am going to add some Pacific Point ribbon to it. I have to purchase it first.
This was created using all Stampin' Up! products, with one exception, the metal rod that has all of the ribbon tied to it.
Cardstock: Whisper White, Old Olive, Basic Black, Real Red, Pumpkin Pie, Daffodil Delight, and Pacific Point
Stamp set: Defining Alphabet (Retired)
My Digital Studio
Tools: 1 1/4 " and 1 3/8" Circle Punches, Small Oval Punch, Big Shot, Squares Collection and Circles Collection Frame Lits, and Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder
Accessories: 1/4" and 5/8" grosgrain ribbon, Basic Black, Whisper White, Old Olive, Pumpkin Pie, Real Red, and Daffodil Delight

If you are having a Mickey Mouse party, this may be the inspiration you need to create a banner yourself. I am sure I will be posting other things I create for this party in the near future.
Thank you for looking and please leave a comment!

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Carter's Wish Book

Do you remember when I had originally posted about Carter's Wishes? Well, I have finished up his book. I think this is such a cute idea to do for the baby to be. It is a lifelong keepsake for the child.
The pages inside of the book were created on whisper white card stock using the MDS (My Digital Studio) program from Stampin' Up! Probably a good idea is to make sure you put a note at the bottom of each page saying who the people were. Over time you may forget who they were otherwise. I know that my daughter had quite a few people from her work attend. They filled in their wishes, but eventually you usually lose contact with a lot of those people. This is why making a little note of who they were and even how you knew them is a good idea to add.

Above is the picture of what the book looks like from the front cover. Most things I used to make this were retired Stampin' Up! products. Also, the binding system I used is not Stampin' Up because currently we do not sell anything to bind with that is made by them. The plain card stock is current: certainly celery, so saffron, bashful blue, and whisper white. Of course, this could be made using all current items from Stampin' Up! if you would like. I just loved the retired designer series paper for this project.

I pray someone else loves this idea and would like to use it sometime too. It is such a neat keepsake to have for the little one that is about to be born. By the way, Carter can come any day now. Guess who is very happy about that, besides mom and dad?

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More Baby Shower Items

Here are pictures of things I made for the baby shower. I am putting these on really fast because I have to leave for work real soon. I used the same colors for everything, bashful blue, so saffron, certainly celery, and whisper white.

I used the retired Stampin' Up! designer paper "delicate dots." I made lots of pinwheels and matchbox die favors. I wanted to add more to the matchbox favors, but I ran out of time.

The wishes for Carter turned out to be a really cute idea. I am now going to make a book out of them. I will post it when I get it done. It is really neat to read what people put for answers. Also, I created them using the MDS (My Digital Studio) program.

I hope you enjoy looking at these and maybe give you some ideas for a shower you may have sometime in the future.

Sorry if I posted too many pictures. I just wanted you to get a good idea of what all there was. I had made 24 pinwheels. Eight of them were bigger and 16 of them were a little smaller.

When all was said and done, the shower was a success. We had a good time and they went home with tons of stuff. Now she has to go through everything and have it prepared for when little Carter comes. Woohoo! Fun, fun, a new baby to love and hold!

You can always leave a comment if you would like.

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Stocking Banner

Finally! I finally have something to share with all of you. I am working on some things for my daughter's baby shower that is coming up at the end of this month. This is one of the things I was finally able to get done for it. I am very sorry if the first picture you see is not the best. I tried 3 different times taking pictures in different areas with different lighting. It is hard really getting good pictures. To be honest, the close up pictures of much better.

I used the holiday stocking die from the Holiday mini catalog to create this banner. To create the letters I used the MDS program. I wanted them to be a little bigger and in the 3 different colors.

For the pinwheels I found a template on the internet and from that figured out the size I needed to cut my paper and how to fold it to make them. I ended up using retired DSP to make them. It is the same DSP that I used for the baby shower invitations. To give some texture to the main part of the stocking I used the textured impressions embossing folder "Perfect Polka Dots."

The cardstock colors used to make these is bashful blue, certainly celery, so saffron, and whisper white. I did not end up rubberstamping at all on these. The only place ink was used was around the edge of the whisper white circles, which have the letters on them. Lastly, I used white and brocade blue 5/8" grosgrain ribbon (both are retired) to hand each stocking on with a little clothespin. The clothespins I used I bought at a craft store a long time ago. Stampin' Up! sells them now though. By the way, I am sure you have figured out that his name is going to be Carter. We can't wait to welcome him into this world!
Once again, thanks for stopping by and checking out my blog. Please feel free to leave a comment!

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Baby Shower Invitations

Something very exciting is coming up soon. My youngest daughter is going to be having a baby boy! At least that is what we have been told. We do pray they are correct. Anyhow, I have attached 2 pictures of the cards. The first one you see is an example. My daughter wanted me to make up a couple of different cards to choose from. Well, I did not attach the other one I had made, but this is the one she chose.


Once she chose her card, I told her she could go with a different color band and scallop if she wanted. Well, guess what? She wanted to go with different colors. The card below is what they all look like. I have already made up 45 of them. I may have to make a few more still, but maybe not.
I used bashful blue, so saffron, whisper white, and certainly celery cardstock, along with retired delicate dots designer series paper. I knew I had enough of the designer paper to use to make these invitations. The stamp set is called "Bear Hugs." I created the writing using the MDS program, which stands for "My Digital Studio." I still need to play with it some more to get used to how it works.
Believe it or not, it did not take that much time to create a bunch of these invites. They were fun to make and now it is almost time to be sending them out.
Thanks for stopping by. Please leave a comment if you have a minute to do so. Keep watching! I already have something else very special to post. It is for my grandson, Blake!

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