They’re pretty cute, right, scalloped for you any everything!!

After my ridiculously cute ice cream cups came in from Polka Dot Market (she has super speedy shipping) I sat down and designed the image I wanted on my stickers and saved the file as a .jpg file.

Then I opened the Maestro Label Designer on OnlineLabels.com‘s website and simply upload my design onto their template for the type of labels I was using (these are label number 1026 in Gloss White for ink jet) and printed them out. It was honestly that simple.

Look at that lovely sheen from the glossy paper. It make my heart pitter patter!

 I have actually been using OnlineLabels.com for years. I am deeply in love with their Gloss White for ink jet paper. I also love the ability to order as little or as many sheets of the labels as I want.

I just popped the labels off the backing and put them on my ice cream cups!

These scalloped oval labels would also be cute on party bags, plastic cups, envelopes…the list goes on and on. And because they are high gloss, they look super professional!!

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Supplies:

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut out this shape that I purchased in the online store. Instead of cutting out the legs, I let the yellow pencils act as the flamingo legs. I also skipped the beak.

If you don’t have a cutting machine you can make yourself a template by cutting out a basic flamingo body on thick paper or a cereal box and use it to trace as many flamingoes as you need onto pink scrapbook paper. If you don’t feel comfortable free-handing a flamingo body search “flamingo clipart” in any search engine and print out one you like to trace.

You can go all 1 color for your flock.

Or mix it up a bit!

The printable tags allow you to cut or punch from a 1.75″ shape up to a 2.5″ square or circle.

In the end I like the simple circle the best, but it’s a cute tag however you punch it! Simply write out your information on the back of the tag once you’ve cut it out.

Use a hole punch and use some cute twine or ribbon to tie the tag to the neck of your flamingo flock.

Now your kids can hand them out to all their friends and school and stay in touch over the summer!

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I have horrible penmanship. Actually, that’s an understatement, I have horrendous penmanship. There is no way in 1,000,000 years that I would be able to handdraw a semi-decent menu onto a real chalkboard, but I really wanted a fancy menuboard to be my food table backdrop at my daughter’s party so I had to come up with an alternative.

I thought about painting a piece of plywood with black paint, maybe even chalkboard paint, so I could rub some chalk on it to make it look more authentic and then applying vinyl to it. However, plywood is heavy, and I am lazy.

That left me with one other choice – faking it! So I opened up Photoshop Elements, purchased a piece of foam core, and got to work!

Supplies:

• 32″x40″ piece of black foam core (that’s the largest they had at Hobby Lobby)
• 36″x48″ engineering print with menu printed on it
• double-sided tape
• scissors
• exacto knife & cutting surface

Carefully lay your engineering print on to your taped foam core. To make sure I was doing it straight I cut off one side of the white boarders so I had a clean side to line everything up with.

Flip your board over and place a cutting surface underneath the edge. My self-healing cutting mat isn’t large enough to fit the entire board on so I just moved it along as I went.

Using an exacto knife, trim off the extra engineering paper.

And that’s it!! You are done!

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My rainbow of diagonal striped forks.

I bought these push-pop containers about 2 years ago and I have never used them at a party. Coming up with a way to set them all up in under 5 minutes and not spend a small fortune on a stand was just not on my to-do list for this party, so I turned them upside down! I designed a label that matched the invitation and using my new labels from Onlinelabel.com, printing them out and wrapping them around the container body was a breeze!

While scouring the internet for Care Bear party supplies I came across a website that had downloadable Care Bear graphic files that had blank bellies. Using the print and cut function on my Silhouette Cameo I made a couple sheets of blank Care Bear stickers. The stickers were used on the favor boxes. I hand wrote in each child’s name and used the favor boxes as a place card, as well. Double duty!!

This is what my entry hall looked like the week leading up to the party as I was experimenting with set ups. I was so sad when we got to the party location and realized that I had left the shelf for my gumball mason jars at home.

I had also ran out of time to put up all my cupcake wrappers that I had designed, printed, and cut out.

Oh, Publix, how I love thee. I mean personally I could have done with out the edible glitter they put all over my cake and cupcakes but the birthday girl thought it what phenomenal, so that makes it alright in my book!

And the clouds!! Oh, the clouds!! They were just perfect!  I didn’t leave them a photo or or any detailed explanations of the clouds and they did an amazing job. And to make it all even more perfect the cake tasted wonderful!

Along with the cake, I ordered 2 dozen cupcakes from Publix. 1 dozen vanilla and 1 dozen chocolate all with just sky blue frosting (which they again added the edible glitter to). I brought them home and using some canned frosting I plopped into a frosting bag I pipped on all the clouds and then stuck the airhead sours into the newly pipped clouds. They are visually stunning. So much bang for so little buck. I would totally recommend this for any rainbow occasion!!

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One of the first projects that I did to prepare for Regan’s Bake Shop was this huge 23″ fabric covered R.

I actually bought the R when I was down in Florida for Thanksgiving last year since my JoAnn Crafts doesn’t carry them in our local store (but I knew my sister’s store carried them). They are also available online and only cost $9.99 – or use your coupon and get them for even less! I really love paper mache letters, there are endless ways you can decorate them – paint, fabric, paper, ribbon, cupcake wrappers, felt…endless possibilities. I decided a padded fabric with ribbon edging would be cute for this party (although cupcake wrappers would have been SUPER cute for a bakery theme). This project is pretty easy, so here is a quick tutorial for you!

Supplies:
batting
fabric
paper mache letter
stapler or staple gun
ribbon that is the same width as the depth of your letter
hot glue
scissors
disappearing ink pen or like colored marker
spray adhesive (optional)

 Flip your letter upside down and trace it onto your batting. Cut out leaving a 1/2″-1″ border.

 Do the exact same thing with the fabric, making sure you leave a border that’s a little larger than your batting.

 Use a little spray adhesive on the right side of the letter and then lay the batting down on top. You can also just use a little hot glue here and there to adhere the batting.

 Then lay your fabric, right side up, on top of the batting. As you can see, you don’t need to be too careful when you cut out your fabric.

 You want to notch and clip any rounded parts if your letter has them.

 Pulling the fabric lightly, add staples every so often to secure the fabric.

 Continue all the way around your letter until you are happy with the letter’s look from the front. Then, using a little hot glue as you go, wrap the “sides” of your letter in matching or contrasting ribbon. I used a solid aqua grosgrain 1.5″ wide ribbon to add in the other party color to this project.

 After looking at this photo I decided that I needed to glue my ribbon down better so I added some hot glue where I saw the ribbon not totally conforming to the letter.

Then just using a nail I hung the letter in our Kitchen, added some pretty paper pendant bunting from Polka Dot Market and I was done!!

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