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Minnie Mouse Themed First Birthday Party

My god daughter has turned one year old! It is hard to believe it. That time flew by! I looked at many blogs and websites to research Minnie Mouse parties and came up with a multitude I liked. I was able to find a cake that both her mom and I liked, as well as free downloads that others openly shared. As a result, we celebrated last night with family, decked out with Minnie!

I first started with an invitation. I used a free printable and SVG file from Sherry K. Designs (see the file) and cut the head and bow out. I layered it on top of a black card base, pink paper, and fuschia polkadot paper. The personalized label came from The Cutting Cafe and is called the Baby Girl First Birthday Colored Tags/Toppers. The inside invite page is from Catch My Party and was also a free set.

Minnie Mouse First Birthday Party Invitation

Next I made a banner to hang…

Birthday Banner – Happy

Banner – Middle Portion

Birthday Banner Name

High Chair Banner

My husband can wrap gifts like no one’s business. Here is one of the gifts he wrapped, using things he swiped from my crafting stash…

Present Wrapped By Hubby Using Customized Tag and Flowers From My Crafting Stash

Close Up of Present Front

Close Up of Present Back

We got her a lot of clothes so hubby wrapped each outfit separately and they went into a large gift bag…

Wrapped Items for Gift Bag

Of course I had to make the perfect card to go with the gifts and used the Dress Shaped Card 2 from The Cutting Cafe along with another version of the customize tag used on the invitations …

Happy 1st Birthday Card

Happy 1st Birthday Card Inside

After looking at a lot of blogs about Minnie Mouse parties, I found a cake I loved at Plus One Blog. Ours looked very close to it.

Minnie Mouse Birthday Cake

We also had a cake for her to smash…

The cake for her to smash!

And here are the end results…fun decorations and a happy baby…

Decorations including my banners.

Happy Birthday Baby!

An Excited Birthday Girl!

Everyone had a wonderful time! Thanks so much for sharing it with us by stopping by! Here are the videos I made on the Invitation, Banners, and Card…

Tags: First Birthday Party, Minnie Mouse BIrthday Party

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Green Birthday Cards – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

19 Mar

Birthday Cards

This week at The Cutting Cafe, we focused on the color green and could use any files we chose. I pulled out some of my tools, like Spellbinders dies and some punches, that I had not used in a while to make birthday cards that showcase a couple of the many printable stamp sets available from the shop. I used the Birthday Fun Printable Stamp Set and the Birthday Greetings Inside and Out Printable Stamp Set.

For the first card, I used both sets. The cake image is from Birthday Fun and the sentiment is from the greetings set.

Birthday Card #1

Birthday Card #1 Inside

The second card uses the inside out set. Both files have tons of images to choose from and are great to use.

Birthday Card #2

Birthday Card #2 Sentiment Close Up

Birthday Card #2 Inside

Be sure to head over to the blog on Wednesday afternoon to see all the design team projects. Leave a comment to be eligible to win three files of your choice in next week’s drawing!

Before you leave, here is a video for you! Thanks for stopping by!

Tags: Birthday Cards, Spellbinders dies, The Cutting Cafe, The Cutting Cafe Design Team

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Hourglass Shaker Birthday Card

11 Mar

Hourglass Birthday Shaker Card

We are shaking up some fun at The Cutting Cafe this week with a whole new line of shaker cards! There are 13 different versions and you can find them all here! I used the hourglass version to make a 50th birthday card for a friend. Of course I used black and gold for the honor! I kept the card very simple in hopes of making the shaker 50 and the hourglass the focal points.

Here are a few more pictures…

Shaker cards are really fun to make and easy once the intimidation factor wears off. The Cutting Cafe helps you with that also as design team member Tmika did a video tutorial on how to make them which you can find here.

Make sure you head over to the blog Wednesday afternoon to see all of the new projects my fellow team members have created! Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win three files of your choice! Thanks for stopping by. Now, here is my video…

Tags: 50th birthday card, Birthday Card, hourglass card, shaker card, The Cutting Cafe, The Cutting Cafe Design Team

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Valentine’s Day Cards

14 Feb

I thought I would take a few minutes to share the cards I made for Valentine’s Day. I tried to keep it simple by using cutting files to save some time. First up is the card I made for my wonderful hubby. I always try to make something a little non-traditional for him.

Hugs & Kisses Card Front

Hugs & Kisses Card Back

This was a cute file I found in the Silhouette Online Store. I just added a few stickers for embellishments and I was finished. Next, I made a card for my parents…

XOXO Card

XOXO Card Inside

This is made from the Valentine Window Card Tops file from The Cutting Cafe. This file is very versatile as it has about 15 versions of toppers you can use. We actually used this file last week for our Design Team Project. You can see many versions on the blog post. The sentiment came from the Valentine Mini Sentiment Background Printable Stamp Set at the Cafe. Next up is the card I made for my little god brother.

I Heart U Card

I Heart U Card Inside

For this quick and easy card I use The Cutting Cafe’s I Heart U Word Shaped Card and the Feb. 14 Printable Stamp Set for the inside tag shaped sentiment. Last but not least I made a card for my aunt whose birthday is on Valentine’s Day…

Birthday Love Version 2

Birthday Love Version 2 – Inside

This is actually the second version of this card. I made one for the design team project I mentioned above. It is again using the Valentine Window Card Tops file that I used above for the xoxo card. This is just another version of the tops included in the file.

Well, I hope you all will have a glorious Valentine’s Day. Thank you so much for stopping by and here are a couple of my videos that showcase three of the cards…

Tags: The Cutting Cafe, Valentine's Day Birthday Card, valentine's day cards

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Birthday Love Card – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

4 Feb

Birthday Love Card – Angle View

This week at The Cutting Cafe, we were all given just one file to work with. The great news is that this one file is very versatile and has many versions to choose from. The Valentine Window Card Tops Template has many variations of heart shape cutouts and words. I used one of the may heart versions for a quick and easy birthday card for my aunt. Here are some other views…

Birthday Love Card – Inside

Birthday Love Envelope

Make sure you head over to The Cutting Cafe Blog tomorrow to see the different things the Design Team comes up with from this one file! While there, make sure you leave a comment. Each week Regina pulls a name from the previous week’s comments and that person wins three free files of their choice! You just might win!

Thanks so much for stopping by. Here is my video…

Tags: The Cutting Cafe, The Cutting Cafe Design Team, Valentines Window Card Topper

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Sending You Kisses Birthday Card – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

28 Jan

Sending You Kisses Birthday Card

This week at The Cutting Cafe we focused on Hershey’s Kisses! I used the Hershey Kiss Shaped Card to make a birthday card for my husband’s aunt. She loves chocolate so he sent her a box of chocolates and this card.

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Sending You Kisses Birthday Card – Inside

I used K & Co patterned paper on the cover and Nikki Silvas paper on the inside. I cut the topper of the card file out of American Craft silver metallic paper and used sentiments from other cutting cafe files. I like the way it turned out.

The other files featuring Hershey Kisses that we had to choose from include the Hershey Kiss Window Card Template, Hershey Kiss Treat Box, Hershey Kiss Window Box, and the Hershey Kiss Window Box 2.

There will be many great projects posted Wednesday on The Cutting Cafe Blog using these great files. Head over and take a look. Make sure you leave a comment and you might just win three free files in the weekly drawing! Thank you for stopping by! Here is my video…

Tags: Hershey Kiss Birthday Card, The Cutting Cafe, The Cutting Cafe Design Team

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Blessed Word Shaped Get Well Card – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

7 Jan

Blessed Word Get Well Card

This week begins the new design team term, so head on over to The Cutting Cafe this Wednesday afternoon to see projects from our new team members, as well as from our returning members! Leave a comment on the Blog post and you might just win three free files of your choice in next week’s drawing!

This week was another free week so we could choose any file we wanted. I chose to use two files, the Blessed Word Shaped Card and the You’re In My Thoughts Greetings Inside and Out Printable Stamp Set, which has all the sentiments I used.

This card is for a friend who is a minister and has a sense of humor…thus the inside of the card…

Thanks so much for stopping by! Here is the video…

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December Card Making Event

4 Jan

Last month I did a post about a card demo I was doing for my husband’s organization’s holiday party. Between leaving for vacation a couple of days after the event and Christmas, I never got a chance to post pictures from the event. All attendees were asked to bring a toy donation for admission which would be given to a local charity.

I held a card making session during the event. Attendees could make a card and the charity that received the toys would give the cards out with the toys.

Once finished with their card, attendees were asked to hang their cards on display board with mini clothes pins. We then held a contest to pick three winners and awarded them restaurant gift cards. In the beginning it was slow going but then people warmed up to the idea of making a card and then it got competitive! Once they got started they really got into it. I had a great time doing it. And, there were some awesome cards made and I was mentally scraplifting a lot of ideas!

Here are some photos…

Card Making Event Table Set Up

Card Making Event Display #2

Card Making Event Display #3

Attendees Having Fun Making Cards

First Card Display

Second Card Display

Thanks for stopping by!

Tags: Christmas card making event

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Sparkling New Year Card – The Cutting Cafe Design Team Project

31 Dec

Sparkling New Year Card

Happy New Year everyone! It has been a while but between vacation, Christmas, and life, I have not had a lot of time. But I am back and ready to go!

This week at The Cutting Cafe we could choose any file we wanted to. I used the new 2014 Wine Glass Printable Set. It comes with a black background and a white background and sentiments. I am making New Year’s Cards and wanted them to be sparkling!

Be sure to head over to the Cutting Cafe Blog tomorrow to see all of the new projects from the design team. Leave a comment and you will be in a drawing to win three free files of your choice! Thanks for stopping by and here is the video…

Tags: New Year's Card, Wine Glass Card

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Holiday Party Cards, Door Prize Tags, and Card Making Event With Cutting Cafe Files

9 Dec

Overview of Holiday Party Projects

I have been working hard and the photo above shows an overview of all the projects I worked on yesterday! My husband’s organization is holding a holiday party and he came up with a cute idea for the door prize drawing. He wanted to hang circles with people’s names on them on a tree. I, of course, found an ornament file from the Silhouette Online store and made 160 of them for him!

Ornaments for Door Prize Tree

Next he needed some cards for his office staff and board chair…

Ornament Card

Tree Trio Card

Step Card Version 1

Step Card Version 2

The cards were made with the Step Card Templates, Christmas Ornament Fun, and Christmas Tree Trio Shaped Card files from The Cutting Cafe.

Then, I am doing a card-making session for people to make cards which will be given to a charity to hand out. I decided to pre-cut shapes to use to make things a lot easier! I used two of the files I just listed along with the Christmas Treat Box file to cut out shapes that will be used on card bases I bought from Michaels.

I made the rectangle and oval shapes myself in the Silhouette software. I cut 135 rectangles and 135 of the other three shapes to be used with them. Plus from the scraps I cut rectangles, strips, and banners people can use. I also got stickers, stamps, ink, tape runners, and ribbon for them to use. I will have to post pictures from the demo event. Thanks for stopping by. Here is my video…