Hershey Kiss Stickers

While planning a baby shower I thought it would be cute to do the Hershey Kiss stickers you see all over pinterest/etsy as part of the table decorations. You will need to create 3/4" diameter stickers for these. I believe Avery makes labels in a size that will work but I used my Silhouette Cameo and regular sticker paper to do this project. It was super simple to create images in the Silhouette program using the same graphics I used on the rest of the baby shower projects I did. I got 40 stickers per sheet. I might have been able to get more done but my printer is extremely fussy and if I take up too much of the print and cut area it will completely cut off my project during printing! I was too afraid of wasting ink and sticker paper to see just how many I could get out of there.

I am going to try and do a video tutorial soon on these since they were so cute and such a hit I'm going to make them for Landon's 5th birthday. Yes, I am THAT mother that is already planning her child's birthday when he still has 7 months until then...

St Patrick's Day Birthday Banner

For this St Patrick's themed birthday banner I actually used the Echo Park St Patrick's Day mini kit! The dark green and lighter green papers are from michael's but the patterned paper I printed out from the digital version of the Echo Park kit and the shamrocks/clovers were from the Silhouette Cameo store. I had fun with this one!

Valentine's Day Cards

My sister and I got together this week to do some card making. I made 4 cards total but 2 I ended up being not too fond of. I need to work on my embossing a bit more, I have to get in the habit of using a powder bag before stamping. These are the 2 I really liked:

Love stamp was from Simon Says Stamp clear stamps in "Love This" (I masked off the this part to make it just love). Paper and ticket was from the Simon Says Stamp January card kit, large heart I cut from my Silhouette Cameo, and the twine is Doodlebug!

XOXO was cut from my Silhouette Cameo, washi tape is Queen B red/white chevron, and stamps were from Simon Says Stamp clear stamps in Only Have Eyes For You. 

I also took an idea from my sister and started hanging up my current cards/photos above my craft desk! Put my Red Sox ribbon to good use finally! :)

Winter Wonderland/Onederland Birthday Party

I was asked to make a banner plus a few extras for a little girls first birthday! Since everyone I know pretty much has boys I was psyched to get to do something girly. The request was winter wonderland/onederland themed and mostly blue/white with a touch of pink and glitter.

Food tags! 4"x2" when folded and left blank for her to write anything she wants on them. I also included a few extras she can use for other things or in case she messes up on a tag.

Favor tags! 2.5" diameter, I left enough ribbon for her to tie on or she can tape it on and the hanging ribbon will still look cute.

The banner! This banner was probably the most work yet only because I didn't like the way the original colors were. I started just white, light blue, and pink but it looked like a baby shower. I added in the dark blue and dark pink but I thought it was too much pink. Finally I settled on dark blue, light blue, white, and a few sprinklings of pink. The snowflakes were cut out of Doodlebug's lily white sugar coated cardstock and is very sparkly, the penguin was a silhouette cut file from their store. Each square is 4.25"x4.25" so it's pretty large!

January 2014 Simon Says Stamp Card Kit - Valentines Days Card

Materials:

• Silhouette Cameo to cut shapes (flag shape designed by me, sentiment shape from silhouette store)
• Simon Says Stamp stamp set in Only Have Eyes For You
• Mini Heart Brads (source unknown)
• Cuttlebug Embossing Folder in Birds and Swirls
• Paper from Fancy Pants Beloved collection
• Bazzil Cotton Candy cardstock for base, Bazzil Marshmallow cardstock for sentiment shape and background

Adhesives:

• Tombo Perm Adhesive Tape Runner
• Pop dots for sentiment

Birthday Banners

Over the past few months I've done a few banners for friends I wanted to share and am currently working on a "one-derland" themed banner which I will show once it's finished.

Tea Party Banner - The most fun to make because it was so girly

One of my very first banners 2 years ago, an Octoberfest themed party

Blackhawks birthday banner. I used print and cut for the Blackhawks logo

Batman Theme - Also did a Superman but don't have a photo

Craft Night - Vinyl Wine Glasses

I'm actually not a big drinker anymore but I love having decorated wine glasses in my house because they are too cute. Back in October we had friends over to watch the Red Sox game and for us girls to mess around with the Silhouette. Originally our plan was etched wine glasses but I cannot find my etching cream so plan B was two tone vinyl decals with our names and initials. The result was awesome and I think I sold my friends boyfriend on getting her a cameo for Christmas too!

Excuse the cell phone photo, I did not have my digital camera handy

A few tips:

• Pick a thicker font, thin fonts will not cut well out of vinyl and they look much better with the two tone look
• There are many different types of vinyl, if you're putting this on a wine glass that you put through the dishwasher make sure you pick an outdoor grade vinyl
• For small transfers like this I've been known to use painters tape instead of the transfer tape to apply to the glass but painters tape can go "bad" and be too sticky so test on a small piece first
• Wash and dry the glasses completely before applying the vinyl, it will last a long time this way

Thomas The Train Birthday Party

For my son's first birthday I did not have a Silhouette machine and looking back I'm a little sad about that but for his second birthday I did have a Silhouette. Not the Cameo, but the the very first Silhouette ever made passed down from my mom to me. Although it's not as fancy and I couldn't do the print and cut feature I still think everything fit the theme pretty well for a Thomas the Train party.

The banner was probably my favorite of all the things I cut. I made it pretty large and don't make my banners this large anymore but it worked great in the space where we had his party. The Silhouette store did not have Thomas cut files so I used a regular train file for the banner as well as the train crossing sign. I do recommend planning the colors you want first and figuring out what letters will be what color. Makes cutting so much easier when you know exactly what needs to be what color.

For the cake/cupcakes my mom made an amazing Thomas cake and cupcakes. I made cupcake wrappers to go around them which I will admit were not the best idea! They took FOREVER to cut, dulled my cutting blade super quick, and used a lot of paper. I took a regular cupcake wrapper file from the Silhouette store and reduced the train file to fit inside the wrapper, there were 3 trains per wrapper. I did not waste the cut out trains, I used them as "confetti" for the tables! I don't think I will ever do cupcake wrappers again, I much prefer the cupcake toppers I've done for other parties.

The other DIY I did for this party were the favors, Thomas crayons. I took molding putty from Michael's, you can find it in the adhesive or clay aisle, and my son's wooden Thomas train and went to work. I ended up getting 5 molds out of one kit, since you are bending them to get the crayons out you may bust one or two of the molds like I did so try and be as gentle as possible when removing the crayons. Once the molds set I preheated the oven to 325 degrees and chopped up some crayons. A few notes about the crayons: soak them in water the day before to get the wrappers off without killing your hands and do go with Crayola crayons they work by far the best with melting and remolding them. I put similar colors together in the molds and just kept an eye on them in the oven until they were fully melted, I didn't leave them alone for even a minute because they melt pretty quickly. The house will probably smell a bit, it's normal. Let cool completely and then pop them out. I had one in each favor bag and I put them on the tables with printed coloring train pages.