Hi everyone,
It’s party central at my house right now – August is our big month for birthdays in my family and first up is Miss 6 who turns 7 very shortly! So I’m flat out baking cupcakes and birthday cake and figuring out party games… anyone for pass the parcel?
So, this is the perfect time to show you my “party” collections! Back in April during one of my “blog silences” I was frantically designing projects for Stampin’ Up! to try and use in some public relations work. I made a bunch of stuff for them to use and they submitted it to a magazine but for some reason, it was never used. I’m so sad about that! I’ve just found out about it and now I am clear to share these projects with you since they weren’t used elsewhere. I didn’t have time to make a second set for my own use, but I did take photos of my creations before sending them away, luckily!
I was asked to make sets of party items – one set for girls, another for boys and a third unisex set. Each collection needed to have an invitation, birthday card, thank you card, 3D item and anything else I could think of. Today I’m going to show you the Unisex set! (If you click on the photo, you can take a closer look).
I started off with the Celebrations Designer Series Paper which is still available (while stocks last) until the end of the month, when our catalogue retires to make way for the new one! I used the colours in the paper to choose my cardstock and embellishment colours. I’m going to miss this paper!
In front is the thank you card (OK so that was obvious!), where I used my Big Shot with reckless abandon! The lettering is die cut with the “Many Thanks” sizzlit, I used the Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder to emboss part of the card front, the Tasteful Trim die to cut the red “ric rac”, and the Buttons Embosslit makes quick work of making faux buttons from cardstock as the final embellishments.
On the left is the invitation which I made using my Scallop Circle Die and cut the DSP using my Circle Scissor tool. I used the stamp set Party This Way to make the balloons and the sign and on the inside of the card which you can’t see, I used stamps from the Inviting stamp set. Both of those sets are carrying through to the next catalogue, by the way! I also used Party This Way to stamp on some white wrapping paper and that’s what the present is wrapped in (you can just make that out at the back of the photo). How cool is that, to have wrapping paper that matches your cards? It was really fun to do, too!
The card at the back is the birthday card, it’s a “Z” fold card and I had a lot of fun making that one, using “Wish Big” from the stamp set Word Play. I love that set and very happy to see that in the next catalogue, too!
Finally last but definitely not least, is the party bucket which you could fill with treats and have it on the table at a party, or use it to hold the “goodies” for the guests to take home. Now that project was a labour of love – back in April there was no such thing as a pennant punch to quickly punch out the pennants I stamped, so those are all hand cut! Detailed hand cutting is something I have a bit of a reputation for I hear, but let’s be honest – who wants to cut things by hand when there’s a punch that will do the job quickly and easily! (Looking forward to the imminent arrival of that punch in September….). I stamped the lettering on the pennants with the Just Perfect alphabet set. The big red scalloped strip of felt was die cut with the Tasteful Trim die (love that die!) and I simply tied a variety of our ribbons onto the bucket handles to finish it off.
So what’s your verdict – was this set worthy of publication? Hope you like it, and if you want to order some of the Celebrations DSP before it’s gone forever, be quick and let me know!
