This paper cake is for my sister's bridal shower at Fearrington in a few weeks. I'm co-hosting the shower with several of our aunts. The food is absolutely delicious! I can't wait! Anyway, we decided that we didn't really need to do favors, but I still wanted to do a little something. Each of these "cake boxes" has 5 Hershey's Nuggets inside, wrapped in coordinating paper as well. It looks tedious, but was actually really easy to do. I did the whole thing in front of the TV for a few consecutive nights. I figured that I might as well put those 2 hours each night to good use! The pattern for the cake slices can be found here by scrolling down and clicking on the link for the PDF. Just print these on your favorite paper and follow the cutting and folding directions. The paper that I used is by Stemma - the lighter one is Teal & Black Daisies and the darker one is Teal & Black Midnight Garden. I love the colors together - plus the wedding colors are a (darker) teal and black. The stamp is from some random wedding stamp set at Michael's - sorry - I dont remember the name of the set. I used the scallop punch from Stampin' Up! The bow is from Michael's too - I don't have the patience to make bows, ever.
This is a diaper cake for my friend's shower this coming weekend. It's actually the first diaper cake I've ever made, and I think it turned out pretty well. I usually buy them from my VERY talented friend, Sarah. You can buy them too by clicking here! Anyway, I didn't get my act together early enough to ask Sarah to do it. Oh well. My friend has a dinosaur theme for her nursery, and I love blue and brown together, so that's what it is. I bought the wooden dinosaurs from Michael's and painted them myself to match the ribbon that I found. I actually did make this bow, which is why it's not nearly as nice on the bow on the other cake :)
This is another birthday card using the Party Hearty! set from Stampin' Up! It's for a little boy's 3rd birthday. He likes cars, just like Brett, so I had to find a way to incorporate some cars onto the card! The solid paper is all from Bazzill and the cars paper is Sandylion's Rush Hour. I copied this design!
Last one - this is a card for baby shower that I'm going to this weekend. The paper is all from SEI's "Doodley Doo Boy" line. The stamps are from Autumn Leaves - Mindy's Zoo. I copied the idea here!
As you can tell, I've been stumped for original ideas lately... thank God for the internet so that I can be inspired :)
Oh, speaking of the internet - I'll share one more wonderful thing that I found yesterday. I'm always trying to find coordinating envelopes to go with the 4x6 cards that I make. I stumbled upon this - a site to download the PDF envelope template to print on any paper that you wish! LOVE it!
