2011 Thing a Week - Week 15 - Birthday Invitations

For this week I made Minnie's birthday party invitations. I can't believe she's already almost 1!

I had a really tough time figuring out the invitations. It was the same for the baby shower. I have an idea in my head but can't find it anywhere. I decided to keep with the ocean theme since I love it, and Kelly is excited about designing the cake. Of course, there are no ocean-themed invitations that you can just buy. Since I am a procrastinator I couldn't have them printed from a shop and mailed to me. I had to come up with something on my own. I couldn't find any ocean stamps that weren't way more than I wanted to pay, and I couldn't find any sea animal scrapbook paper, so I was at a bit of a loss. There will be a lot of invitations and I didn't want to spend a lot of time or money on them.

Then I remembered that I could make my own stamps. We went off to the store to buy some foam so I could design some stamps. Instead I found these bags of little foam sea animals, which were perfect!

I drew lines in pencil so that you could recognize the shell better. It didn't make much of a difference but I'm still glad I did it

I love the smile!

I sketched a few 1s before deciding on one. I cut it out of the foam paper and remembered to glue backwards so it would stamp correctly.

Leng cut some wooden blocks of leftover wood and I had some stamps. The smaller ones I added to some pill bottles.

For the paint I already had a bunch from my plans of painting sea animals on Minnie's bedroom walls. That didn't happen (yet!). I mixed up some colors and watered them down a bit so they would stamp easier.

 I painted the colors on and stamped away.

I need to take pictures while the sun's still out.