My friend and I threw a baby shower this week for 2 friends of our friends. We had about 40 people come and it was at my house! I love decorating and crafting of course, as does my friend. So together we had a blast! Here's some highlights:
THE DECOR:
LOVE these poof balls I got from Michaels/Martha Stewart. Not sure if I'll be able to save to re-use but they make it feel so festive.
LOVE this sign! My friend made with the Silhouette!
We had assignments out for most of the food and the brownies were a little late, but all of the food was delicious!
THE PARTY FAVOR'S:
Ok, we really had fun with this. We made this with our Silhouette. It's Cute Box #3. we added the velum under the lid. It turned out so stinkin cute! My husband couldn't figure out why I was folding boxes and lid every night for 3 nights for a baby shower but it was worth it!
THE PUNCH RECIPE:
The punch ended up being a huge hit! And it totally matched my color theme (love that). I got it from my husband's aunt Penny. Here's the recipe: 1 gallon of Sherbet (you pick the color) to 1-2 liters of Sprite/Ginger Ale. She recommends Sprite with pink ice cream and ginger ale with green ice cream. You start with just 1 liter but you go through that more quickly than the ice cream so I kept adding sprite, then I'd add more ice cream, then more sprite, etc. I also added some frozen rasberry's and I used rasberry/orange swirl sherbert. It was so yummy! Might be fun to do with green for a St. Patrick's day party!
I love parties!
I haven't done any decoupage since I was a kid. But I always love these type of signs/artwork/decor at the craft shows but would never buy it, cause I figured I could always do that myself. Well, I finally did! And of course I didn't just tackle the most recent upcoming holiday. Had to do a bunch :-) Thanks to my crafty friend Wendy, for helping me get it all out and finally get my blocks done!!
All you need to decoupage is some wood blocks. Paint them up however you'd like. Find some cool background paper/image/design. Put some modge podge all over the block and press the paper on. Do again to attach the letter/word/design on top of that. Add as many layers as you'd like. Finish with a top coat of modge podge and you're done! So easy. And so very cute!
