Thank you (Halloween Cards)

At last the I was able to finish the Thank You cards for my son's birthday party..  But maybe will add few things inside when I feel like doing it.  Kids in his class are very excited for his party because it will be an amazing experience for them to watch a magician exclusively for them.  I'm hoping that everything will go as planned.

There are so many things I have yet to create for the party but I take things one day at a time.  There are days I have to re-conceptualize a lot of things and there are days that I'm just working like a machine in my craft room.  Oh well, invitations were out since Friday last week and now the thank you cards are done ....banners ... give-a-ways .... decorations are just in the process .... my costume and the celebrants are all ready so I guess I'm right in schedule. Of course I still have to finalize the food we're gonna serve.

Here are the bunch of Halloween Thank You cards =)

Materials Used for the Front:

Happy Hauntings Cartridge for the Witches Hat and the orange oval you see are left-over cuts from the invitations I made which you may see here.
Spider Embossing Folder
Ranger Distress Ink Pads : Walnut Stain and Brushed Curduroy
Gold studs I bought in Denmark when I visited a dear friend who is also a fellow crafter

Materials Used for the Inside:

Just Rite Rubber Stamps - Times New Roman 95point
Color Box Petal Point Ink Pads


And here's one more look at the cards =)

Thanks for the visit.

until then.....

BOO! (Halloween Invites)

As the saying goes "Time Goes So Fast!"

My son will turn eight this month and year after year we have a party for him but all those years it was mostly playing time with his classmates ... boys only ... in a private and rented adventure land.  As early as March my son and I talked about some plans for his birthday this year.  he was having a hard time choosing between Superman or Batman or Spiderman (again) or Dinosaurs or Monsters.  When he realized that his birthday falls very near All Souls Day he firmly made a decision to have a scary Hallowen party instead.

Yipee!  How I long to have a Halloween party for his birthday especially knowing that they are big enough NOT to be really scared when it comes to scary costumes.  He chose his costume and of course I have one,too =)

What so special about his birthday this year is that we hired a magician, yipee again = )  Oh I can't wait to that part on his party but I'm sure I will be missing lots of episodes that day because I have to go around and take pictures ... then be a host to the parents and the teachers.  Yes, we invited the parents as well as ALL the girls in his class, too.  I'm crossing my fingers that everyone will be able to come and celebrate with us a scary magical Halloween party.

Now that I'm finish with all the invitations ...32 pieces, I'm now at the start of creating the decorations .... thank you cards ... and the give-a-ways.  So, for this day I would like to share with you all the birthday invitations.

Materials Used:
(Front)
Happy Hauntings Cricut Cartridge - the 3D frame was converted into a card instead ... cut into 5"
Mini Monsters CRicut Cartridge - the word "Boo" cut into 3", and the spider at 0.3/4"
Tim Holtz EF - Halloween Night and Posien Set
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad - Barn Door, Peeled Paint, Bruch Curdory, and Vintage Photo
Inkadinkado Acrylic Stamp - Ticket
Stickles
3D eyes
Zig Writer - Brown
Cardstocks - Reprint and Kuretake

(Inside) - for this part I'm sad to say I was not able to take a picture before adding all the party details.  I refuse to show it now due to security reasons but I did use combinations of Stampendous, Panduro, and Hot Off the Press acryclic stamps.

Thank you for viewing =)

PS.  Guess who helped me in making the cards ... click here.

until then....... 

4 Birthdays in a Row

It's a nice feeling to be free from work once in a while and this day I'm free which means time for more crafting.....and so I thought.  The whole morning I have been searching for kiddie soldier costume for my son.  It's one of his request for his birthday.  After several hours of searching I was lucky to stumble upon an on-line store here in Sweden that offers the costume.  Good thing I took a break ...coffee time ... otherwise I could have placed an order from one store in US.  If i did, the mailing cost is even higher than the actual costume.  Now, I can sit back knowing that 2 days from now a package will arrive in which I don't have to pay tax not to forget a higher shipping cost plus they posted on their online store that it may take 28 days or more for the package to arrive since it's Halloween month and they have so many orders.  I'm so happy I found the Swedish store and I even bought a costume for myself.

With limited time I just assembled a set of birthday mini cards.  I remember several months ago I played with my Paper Lace Cricut Cartridge and cut several Happy Birthday.   Luckily I found it in one of the drawers but only 6 pieces left and one is broken :(  Anyway, I only need 4 pieces so it's fine because I have 4 friends celebrating their birthdays this month of October and it would be nice to add on their presents =)

Here are the mini cards =)

Thanks for dropping by!

until then .......