Just wanted to share some pics from Ellie’s 5th birthday party. I don’t really do themes, but all the decor was red, white and pink…with lots of polka dots!
“Photo Booth” pics…
A great time was had by all! We decorated crowns {designed by me in Make the Cut…woot woot!!}, colored cupcakes, played a bean bag toss game, took photo booth pics and, of course, chowed down on some cupcakes and ice cream! Not bad for weeks of planning for 2 hours on a Friday afternoon!! LOL!
TGIF Friends! I hope you all have had a wonderful week. It seems like I blinked and it’s Friday. On Monday I reported that I was on the up and up, but I ended up at the doc’s office. Finally, I really am feeling better! YAY!…and just in time for the long weekend.
Well, if you happened upon here randomly today be sure to take a moment to start at the beginning of this AWESOME Verve blog hop HERE on Julee’s blog {where you will also find a master blog hop list}. If you are already hopping along, you should have stopped at Dawn’s blog just before arriving here.
July is a BIG birthday month for Verve Divas {5 of them!}, so we are celebrating this month with a sale on the Verve set, Carpe Cupcake. It’s also Ellie’s birthday month, and I am in full swing {as much as I can be lately, anyways} planning birthday bash for my almost 5 year old!! Needless to say, I was slightly inspired by that to create this birthday wand…
In addition to Carpe Cupcake, I also used Bountiful Backgrounds {I reach for that one A LOT} and Birthday Wishes. The polka dots from Birthday Phrases were stamped in Pixie Pink {SU!} on the Raspberry Fizz cardstock base that is cut with a star Nestie. I layered a rosette and a pink circle before topping them off with the sentiment and the cupcake. The cupcake is topped with Diamond Stickles and then sprinkled with german glass glitter as “sugar.”
I added a second large star behind the pink star. At first I was just trying to make it so you wouldn’t see the hot glue and lollipop stick mess on the back of the pink star. When I went to add the white star it was a little wonky, and while it would have been easy to fix, I really liked the way it looked. I added the Swarovski crystals to the points of both of the stars for a little extra BLING BLING! As the final touch, I added some pink seem binding ribbon in a double bow. Viola…birthday wand!
Ok, I won’t keep you here any longer. Keep on hopping along to Jen Tapler’s blog where she definitely has something to WOW you!
Some detail you wanna know…
1. We’ve hidden a little mystery prize on one of today’s hop spots, so be sure to leave a little comment love as you hop around for a chance to win!
Comment Deadline: 11:59pm Mountain, July 5
Prize: $30 gift certificate to Verve
2. July is birthday time here at Verve, with five Diva birthdays, including my own! To start the celebration in style, our July Stamp of the Month is one of my absolute favorites… Carpe Cupcake! And at 40% off during the month of July, Carpe Cupcake is one SWEET deal!
3. A brand new month also brings along a new sale here at Verve! During the month of July, save 20% on all of our birthday stamps! Check out all the birthday goodness on our SALE page.
4. Our Gift to YOU! And what’s a birthday party without goody bags? We’ve gathered together some of our favorite things… doilies, My Mind’s Eye paper, tags, ribbon, plus a few other goodies and put them in brown paper packages! And during the month of July, if your order is $75 or more, you’ll receive one of these goody bags free! There’s nothing to add to your cart, we’ll just be sure to include it when your order ships!
How many times did you write that in someone’s yearbook when you were a kid? Quite a few, I’m guessing. I thought it would be pretty cute paired with double walled cups filled with plastic ice and Crystal Light as end of the year teacher gifts {idea seen on Pinterest}. Whatcha think?
Packaging, as decorated by my *almost* 5 year old, Ellie…
{I did the “J” outline}
Ellie is off to Kindergarten next year. Here’s a shot from her graduation program…
My sweet friend, Susan, also used this idea for her end of the year gifts. If you haven’t seen hers {with super cute tags attached}, check ‘em out HERE on her blog. PSST…if the post is not there yet, it will be soon.
It’s time for the March Creative Challenge from the My Favorite Things DT. This month we are bringing you home decor projects made using the MFT Die-Namics dies. We recently did a makeover on Ellie’s room. It used to be painted green and she was BEGGING us to paint it pink. So, a couple weeks ago when she went to Disneyland with family in California, Tony and I got busy and painted it “Fairest of Them All.” Four nights and three coats of paint later, she had a pink room. I also added some flowers and butterflies throughout room {pics coming soon…PROMISE!}, so I thought that it would be fun to make something with the Die-Namics Butterflies that would compliment the rest of the decor.
My inspiration came solely from THIS project Making Memories.
Although, I had a lot of trouble capturing a good picture of my mobile I hope from the several mediocre ones that I did get you can see how it came out {cute, if I do say so myself!}…
I cut out A LOT of butterflies from the Echo Park Springtime {and Little Girl??} line and attached them to clear thread hanging from the inside circle of an embroidery circle.
I added tulle around the embroidery circle to make it a little more POOF-Y…
One suggestion I would make if you choose to do one of these…Attach your tulle before attaching your line of butterflies {or whatever suits you}. I don’t know what I was thinking doing these in reverse, but I did and it was a mess at times. All of the strings would have had 3 large, 3 medium and 3 small butterflies, but some of the strings got tangled. Then, more got tangled. Words were said and scissors made an appearance. I like what I ended up with still, but it was a learning {the hard way} experience!
Ok, enough of my jibber jabbering! There are lots of home decor items to see from many of the MFT girls! You can see a full list on Kim’s blog HERE! Enjoy!!
Monday morning greetings, my friends! Did ya hear? Verve released NEW STAMPS & DIES on Friday! Are you wondering why I didn’t do a whole bunch of sneak peeks leading up to the great event? 
I’m sure it’s been on your mind…hahahaha! The Verve Design Team is now actually 2 teams. I am on the Inspiration Team, which will be focusing on bringing new light to some older sets throughout the month. {You can read more about the teams HERE}. I’ll get to the older sets in a couple of days, but for now I HAD to play with LOVE NOTES, one of the new releases…
This may be my favorite Valentine’s set from Verve EVER! Great sentiments {duh, it’s Verve}, cute images and a TWO DIES to match! I used the Jotted Heart Die to cut the stamped image and felt heart. I’m thinking of making some heart garland using this die! It’s a great size for both embellishments and focal points. You can see all of the new releases HERE on the Verve site.
On another note…
BRRRRRR! It is COLD here! Definitely a drastic change from what we were spoiled with last week! Yesterday we got a few snowflakes and the kiddos enjoyed playing outside…before they realized just how cold it was {or maybe that was just Tony and I}! Here are a couple of pics from our {mini} snow day…
Ellie catching flakes on her tongue…
Nic {my big ONE YEAR OLD!} with a few flakes resting on his shoulders {and lashes!}…
We also had his first birthday party this weekend. Pics to come!
Stay warm and happy stamping!
