Stacey's Crafty Creations

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Butterflies & Caterpillars

While we are in invitation mode...

Since I showed you my invitations of the girls slumber party in my last post, I thought I would share the ones I did of their party over the summer. I mentioned in a previous post that I hosted a party for the younger girls in our congregation. It was for them to benefit from the experience of our older friends. We called it the Butterflies & Caterpillars or Roses and Rosebuds Party. It was very lovely. Everybody brought baby pictures and we had guess whose they were. The butterflies sat on one side of the table and caterpillars on the other side and they had 5 minutes to ask lots of questions and get to know one another. They also brought each other gifts. Then the butterflies all wrote down a task they need done and something they could teach a young caterpillar and the caterpillar drew a butterflies name out of bowl. So in the future they will get together and benefit from each other.

Anyway... this is the invitations I made for them.

I had 12 invitations. We had 16 people total , but fortunately a few were sisters so I only had to make 12. That was plenty! This is the whole process including my messy desk. Once in a while I share!

Warning: Lots of pictures

After all the images are colored and paper-pieced, I cut the die-cut and lay them all out. This image from Mo Manning was just perfect for this gathering! I often don't have enough of the same paper to make them identical, so I find a paper that coordinates and looks very close.

Then I added the ribbon, bow, & sentiment

Then glued those puppies down, and whala....

12 invitations! If it were only that easy!

The Inside- It included a scripture that showed the preciousness of children and our older friends too.

I posted these baskets on an earlier post. They each received one. The butterflies were given one with teas and magnets. The caterpillars had lotions and lipgloss.

Supplies for invitation:
Image: Mo Manning
Coloring: Prismacolor Pencils
Cardstock: Coordinations & Misc.
Designer Paper: Mandarin Modern Paper Pack by Tapestry
Die-cut: Spellbinders Lacey Squares & Fancy Tags 1
Ribbon: Offray
Jewels: Recollections

Challenges I would like to enter this invitation in:
Bella & Bronte- Mo's-Anything Goes with a Mo image & optional sketch*
Crafty Sentiments - Let's Get Girly
Paper Take Weekly - Anything Goes
Catch The Bug - February Anything Goes

Ditzy Craftymess - Anything Goes

Poodles Parlour - Anything Goes

Craft Us Crazy - Anything Goes

Do You Stack Up? - Anything Goes

Truly Madly Crafty Challenges - Ribbon and Bling
The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan - Use Ribbon
Fabulous Friday - Ribbon and / or Twine
Drunken Stampers - Use Something New (Image)
Send a Smile for Kids - Anything Goes for Kids
Inspire Me Fridays - Link Up Party
Lily Pad - Patterned Paper
Just Tracys Crafts Challenge - Make something for a female and add something flowing (Bow)

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Party Time

It has been exactly one month since my last post. Did you miss me? Better yet are you sick of seeing my last post? I am!!!! I went out of town earlier in the month, and came down with the flu, and have been a bit wiped out since. I took a break from blogging, just couldn't wrap my head head around anything else. I am so easily distracted, so I had to use my energy on other things. So anyway, hopefully I will post a bit more regularly. Please forgive me for not stopping by I have neglected that too. I will be by shortly though. I have been peeking at everyone's awesome projects, Just did not have much energy to comment.

In the summer and often the kid's winter break, I throw a party of some sort for the girls in our congregation, before they go back to school. This winter I got brave and had a slumber party. We had nine girls! There was pizza, dancing, games and lots of fun! It was loud, but lots of fun. Anyway, these are the invitations. It is a bit of work, but doing it assembly line style, it goes pretty quick.

This is laying them all out, then I attached everything all at once.

Mt attempt at darker skin. Still working on that one.

All of them completed

The Inside

Next time I will share the invitations I made for their party in the summer. Hopefully before another month goes by!

Supplies Used:

Cardstock: Coordinations & Recollections

Designer Paper: K&Co.

Jewels: Recollections

Ribbon: Offray

Sentiment: Computer

Image: Mo's- Slumber Party Dena

Pencils: Prismacolor

Challenges I would like to enter these cards in:

Oldie But Goodie Challenge - Must use something at least 6 mths old & state what it - Have A Heart (Must Have a heart on your project) Paper and ribbon older than 6 months. Heart is in the image on her sweater.

Card Makin' Mamas - Something Old (Paper & Ribbon)

Partytime Tuesdays - Anything Goes

Lollipop Crafts - Anything Goes

My Craft Spot - Anything Goes

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Anything Goes

Shopping Our Stash - People Who Need People

Paper Take Weekly - Sketch*

Crafty Boots - Something Inspired by a Song Title (Girls Just Want To Have Fun! Cyndi Lauper)

Hooked on Crafts - Something Bright (Paper)

Kaboodle Doodles - "It`s all about Girls" (girly card)

One Stitch At A Time - Use a Digi

Allsorts - One or More Heart (Heart is in her sweater)

Crazy 4 Challenges - Layer it on

Marks Finest Papers - Cards with at least 4 layers

Secret Crafter - Ribbons

Cardmadfairy's Digi Days - Must use a digi -Ribbons & Bows

My Sheri Crafts - New Things (Digi is new)

Bronte and Bella's Challenge (Mo's Digital Pencil) - Favorite Things (Ribbon, bows, gems, & purple)

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Top 12 Cards of 2011

I am seeing everyone's favorite cards & projects over the past year and I wanted to join in on the fun. I had not been blogging very long last year at this time, and did not have too many cards that I liked. So this year I actually had some projects I am proud of. First I picked 12 cards I like in no particular oder. Then I through in a few of my favorite projects as well. If you click on each picture it will take you to the post where there are more details.

These are some of my favorite projects this year! They were all quite fun to make!

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Having a Tantrum Pt. 2!

This is the 2nd going away card I made for some good friends of ours using Mo's Terrible two images again merged together. You can see my first card here.