Guest Designing for Decorate to Celebrate ~ Jungle/Safari First Birthday

Today I am Guest Designer for Decorate to Celebrate!!

This month at DTC, there is a HUGE birthday celebration going on to celebrate Rhonda’s and Amy’s Birthdays. With this being a Birthday Celebration, I decided to share with you the decorations I made for my baby’s first Birthday.

We chose to have a Baby Jungle/Safari themed party for our little guy. For the goody bags I used Create a Critter for the hippo and zebra, and for the elephant and monkey I used New Arrival.

The banner was made using Birthday Bash, New Arrival, and Create a Critter.

(This is so much cuter in person!!)

The next few pictures are closeups of the cute baby animals.

I made these as wall decor.

These are the cupcakes we did instead of cake. The toppers were finger puppets that the kids had so much fun playing with.

And here is our sweet little man enjoying his cake and ice cream!

Please swing by the DTC blog to see what the other guest designers have come up with and to enter your birthday creations into the challenge.

I Miss You

My Niece Mia, whom I am very close to, recently moved up to Washington to live with her Dad and I am so totally missing her so I decided to send her a card. :)

Recipe:

Cartridges: "Birthday Bash" for the snail,

"Sentimentals" for the postage stamp layer. (I used my Gypsy to make it square.)

Patterned Paper: My Minds Eye "Twinkle Twinkle Little Girl"

Extras: Twine, Googly Eyes, Fruit Punch Stickles, Button, and Gel Pen

I hope you enjoyed my card today and have a great Holiday weekend! :)

Whimsical Wednesday Scrapbook Challenge

Welcome back for another Scrapbook Whimsical Wednesday.

The challenge this week is to make a

Birthday layout with some kind of embossing.

I have made a 2 page 8.5 x 11 layout.

(Here is my 1st page. )

All images on this 2 page LO where cut from the Cricut "Birthday Bash" cartridge. I heat embossed the polka dots on the banner with clear embossing powder and added bakers twine in Lemondrop from The Twinery. The 3 was embossed with my Cuttle bug and the Swiss Dots CB folder.

(Here is the 2nd page.)

The octopus' face was stamped with Peachy Keens Retro Paper Doll face assortment. (This face is one of my favorites. I love how excited he looks!) I used the Swiss Dots folder again to emboss the balloons and used The Twinery's bakers twine to do the strings. All papers except for the kraft came from DCWV Celebration Stack and the red polka dot ribbon came from Stampin' Up.

Here are both pages together.

Please stop on over at the Whimsical Wednesday Blog to see what the talented design team has come up with for your inspiration and for all the details about the challenge. Thank you for stopping by and have a great day! :)

Birthday Bash Card

My Mom just reminded me that it is my Niece's 3rd Birthday tomorrow. So I made this super simple and quick card.

I used my brand new "Birthday Bash" cartridge to cut the elephant.

I used an "Action Wobble" to mount the elephant.

Here is the inside. The stamp is from the dollar bin at Michael's.

I hope you enjoy and have a great night.