Finally Another Post

Again I have been a horrible blogger. Sorry! Really I am. I am trying to get into the swing of blogging on a regular basis but I can't seem to get there. But stick with me, I will get there.

I made this card for my sisters baby shower. Of course it went with the entire theme. Mickey Mouse! The sentiment on the front got a bit smudged when I stamped it but I didn't have time or more yellow cardstock to re-make it. Actually I didn't even have enough yellow cardstock to make this in the first place. I ended up having to put together two separate pieces of yellow cardstock to make the background. I wasn't sure at first how I was going to cover up the seam. But once I decided to use the Mickey silhouette made from my Cricut with the Mickey Font cartridge I knew that would cover it. It seems like this card is made with all the supplies that I used to make all the different elements from the shower. The black base, kraft frame & Mickey silhouette where from the invitations. The yellow background is from the center pieces and the red polka dot ribbon is from the diaper cake. It wrapped all the elements together perfectly!

Thanks for stopping by! Let me know what you think of today's card.

Mickey Mouse Diaper Cake

Hay there blog buds! I am back with another item that I made for my sisters baby shower...a diaper cake. This is the first diaper cake that I have ever made but it definitely won't be my last. Since I had never made one before I checked out YouTube for some tutorials. And as I'm sure you guessed, there where tons. But I found a pretty simple on here. The quality of the video isn't the greatest but you get the general jist of it.

I wasn't totally sure what I wanted to decorate the cake with at first. Again I thought I would be able to find all kinds of really cute Mickey themed items to decorate it with but that didn't happen. Then I thought I would decorate it with all the needed baby products...baby powder, baby lotion, baby wash, pacifiers, all the typical things. But when I started to put them on the cake they just didn't look right. Finally I found the cute Mickey handling the soft and fuzzy baby blanket. I knew that it would make the perfect cake topper. I found the polka-dot ribbon at JoAnne's. Even though the cake is simply decorated I love it. I think it looks better this way. Instead of covered in all the baby items.

Then as a surprisee to my sister I hid this really cute throw blanket in the center of the cake for her. I got it at Ikea when I was there a month or so ago. When I got the blanket it was already rolled up. So it became the center of the cake instead of the typical baby bottles. I got it in red so it would match the nursery. I figure new Mommy's always need a little surprise present just for them.

Enjoy and thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
1 pack: Pampers Swaddlers Sensitive Diapers 112-pk-Size 2
Throw Blanket from Ikea
2 spools of 1 1/2" Ribbon - JoAnne Fabrics
6 Pearl Headed Sewing Pins - Michael's (to secure ribbon)
Mickey Mouse stuffed animal with infant blanket - Walmart (As cake topper)
Lots & lots of rubber bands

Back in Action

Hay blog buddies! Sorry I have been MIA lately. I was super busy getting ready for my sisters baby shower. I had so many last minute things to make. But now the shower is over and I will be back over the next few days to show you all the great things that I made for the shower.

So lets getting going on today's item. These are the center pieces that I made. Sorry for the bad picture. I was so busy running around the shower that I took this pictures really quick as I was moving on to set something else up.

I had originally planned on making pinwheels for the center pieces. But when I started looking up tutorials online I realized how labor intensive those where going to be. Plus I couldn't find the patterned paper that I was seeing in my head. Don't you hate when that happens?

My sister plans on decorating the nursery in a Classic Mickey Mouse theme. I thought I would be able to find tons of things to go with this theme but it was a lot harder then I thought it was going to be.

Anyway. My friend Fran - Hay Fran! - found a picture of these flowers online and I really liked them. Even better they were cut out using a Cricut! Talk about cutting the labor down! So the center pieces went from pin wheels to these flower pin wheels. At least that's what I call them. I got the buckets they're in from the Target $1 Spot. Love that place. I planned on putting styrofoam in the bottoms of the buckets to stick the flowers in but I had no idea how expensive that stuff was. My Mom came up with a great substitute...rice! Genius!

I love how these came out! Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies:
Tin Bucket: Target $1 Spot
Card Stock: Bazzill Basics - Kisses & Daisy
Wooden Doul: 5/8" - Michael's
Pearl Headed Pins - Michael's
Irradesent Beads - Michael's

Cricut Cartridge: Indie Art