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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Inviting a crew of small children into my home

I must be something of a masochist, because I stay up way too late finishing these projects.  At any rate, the invitations for my son's 2nd birthday party are done!
I'm quite proud of the way they turned out.  My husband even had the idea to incorporate boarding passes into the invites, to fit the theme, which I did.  I found an awesome online template here, and it was a breeze to personalize.  (I think they were designed as invites for a destination wedding, but it worked really well for our purposes too.)
It's been a long time since I used my Sizzix machine.  Some of the dies didn't want to cut all the way through, which was really getting on my nerves because I didn't want to cut out half of each tiny airplane by hand.  A friend of mine has a Cricut machine, and I'm starting to think that I might finally catch up on my scrapbooking if I had a new toy to play with.  However, I think I might get a Silhouette Machine if I get anything, because the Silhouette can cut out any font on your computer, whereas you have to buy cartridges for the Cricut.  (For those who don't know, both machines cut paper, vinyl, t-shirt transfers, etc for scrapbooking, cards, and various other crafts.  Cricut even has a special model that can cut fondant frosting for cake decorating.  Unlike a traditional press-style die-cut machine like the Sizzix, they both are more like printers with a blade instead of ink--and no muscle or rolling required.)  Scrapbooking has barely been a part of my life since my son entered it, and I would enjoy doing a bit of it again.  Perhaps this will be on my Christmas list...

5 comments:

Ben Godby said...

Wow... that invitation kind of makes me want to attend your son's birthday party. Will the cake have a special shape? My personal hope is that it will feature railroad tracks and a fondant-carved locomotive, but that is the steampunk inside of me squealing for release...

-bn

Eileen Rhoadarmer said...

Thanks Ben! It won't be fondant-carved, but I am planning on doing a train. I have one month left to do dry runs to make sure it works okay--cake baking can be a bit of a challenge when your child is allergic to egg. Egg Replacer instead of egg and applesauce instead of oil is what finally worked last year, when I made alphabet blocks.

Mom xox said...

How organized you are, Eileen. The invitation is amazing and all done well before the special day. You are amazing!

Sela said...

The invites look great :)
Here's a few Silhouette giveaways that you could enter:
http://www.somewhatsimple.com/2010/08/abc-create-with-me-huge-giveaway.html

http://www.ourbestbites.com/2010/09/silhouette-digital-craft-cutter.html

I like my Cricut a lot, but the Silhouette looks really cool too!

Eileen Rhoadarmer said...

Thanks!

:)