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Birthday Celebration Class recap
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I finally held my big birthday celebration class a couple of weekends ago. I celebrated 9 years with Stampin’Up! AND Stampin’Up!’s 10 years in Canada.
21 friends came to enjoy 5 birthday-themed projects and a whole lotta fun.
I featured the 5 projects a couple of weeks ago, but here are some photos of the actual event. Please note the lighting in the rented room was terrible for photo-taking!
This photo shows the prizes for the evening. A few were door prizes and then we had to have prizes for the games which were “Name that Stamp Set” and “What is the Stampin’Up! Color” – catalogues on the tables were a big help to some stampin’newbies! lol
This mini cupcake box was filled with delicious chocolate cupcakes with marshmallow frosting. Instructions to make the box can be found in my Homemade Goody Packages Tutorial.
A blossom box filled with kisses – and it fits a lot of those tasty little guys! The blossom box die is on the retiring accessory list and won’t be around much longer!
This little cutie is also carrying a bunch of kisses. You can find the instructions to this purse at Inking Idaho and is in Becky’s Tres Chic Handbags tutorial. My friend who won this bag was so thrilled!!
I prepared quite a birthday spread for my friends too. I used colors from the Sweet Shop designer series pack to decorate the table and the cupcakes! We also had red velvet birthday cake, mini banana split bites, ice cream sundaes, strawberry shortcake kabobs and 3 different punches. No one went home hungry!!
A very special thank-you to all my friends who came to celebrate my anniversary with Stampin’Up! I had a great time visiting with you one-on-one!!
TTFN!
Natasha
Yummy Party Favors
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My sister held a bridal shower for Chalisse on Friday and she did a great job!! She took care of all the invitations, food, games, and set up. All I was asked to do as mother of the bride, was to provide some party favors for the guests to take home as a “thanks for attending” momento.
I wanted to incorporate a bit of Chalisse into these party favors. Her favorite thing in the world is cookie dough so I came up with a cute way to wrap up some for everybody. It was a hit!!
I had to use some non-SU paper as I needed 35 sheets in her wedding colors. I did use Blushing Bride and Crumb Cake cardstock, Boho Blossoms and 5-Petal Flower punches to make the flower embellishment. Chocolate Chip satin ribbon finished off the ends.
Have a great day! TTFN!
Natasha
Spaghetti for Supper
Posted by: | CommentsShowcasing stamped projects is going to be a bit on the low side here at Inkingoutofthebox in the next couple of weeks. Last week, I had surgery, good necessary surgery, but major nonetheless. Because of this, creating is not on the top of my priority list this month – darn it!
But just because I can’t create very much right now, does not mean that we are letting boredom set in at the Zandbergen home – no way! Please forgive the bragging I am about to do – I’m not allowed to do much else this month!!
Kira, my 14 year old daughter, had a foods class assignment this week to prepare a cake to be graded. Being the fun-loving girl she is, a regular 2 layer chocolate cake just would not do:
How adorable is this cake???
She baked regular golden yellow cake batter in an oven proof bowl so it was shaped like a dome. Then she piped yellow-tinted icing all over the cake to look like pasta. She spooned on some seedless strawberry jam for spaghetti sauce and the finishing touch was the “meatballs”! These are hazelnut chocolates covered in jam and boy, do they ever look real!!
My sister invited us over for supper last night (she is taking such good care of me!!) because her twins were celebrating their 9th birthday. We took this over to share with them and Daniel, my little 4 year old nephew , was adamant that his cake piece NOT have a meatball on it – he was having none of it!! So, so funny!!
Have a lovely creative day!
TTFN!
Natasha
Very Handy Discovery
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I’m interupting my baking session today, to share with you a pleasant discovery I made yesterday.
I wanted to package my giant pretzel rods in a special way to give away as teacher gifts this year. I went into my work area to start measuring and designing.
I looked over to my shelf and noticed my mini cupcake box from the Homemade Goody Box tutorial sitting there…
and wondered if my rods would possibly fit in that. I took it off the shelf, held my breath, laid in one pretzel rod and…
…did the dance of joy!!! They fit perfectly!
I quickly made up a couple of boxes and they are ready to go – I love those serendipidous moments!
I used this card layout as inspiration for the top of my box. The poinsettia flower at the top was created by layering 3 – 5 Petal Flower punches and 2 small flowers punched with Boho Blossoms punch.
Supplies used:
Stamps – Four the Holidays, Notably Ornate
Paper and Ink – Old Olive, Cherry Cobbler, Very Vanilla, Jolly Holiday DSP
accessories -5 Petal Flower punch, Boho Blossoms punch, Scallop Edge punch, ticket corner punch, Big Shot and Little Leaves sizzlit, pearl accent
Now back to my baking!
TTFN!
Natasha
