Birthday Party !!!

Hellooo, Coco here with a big party project, and a lot of decorations!!! I made this to celebrate the 6 years of my twins with her mates... As you will see, it includes the two mini Cupcakes albums I showed you a couple of weeks ago, for the Celebrate week!

Do you want to know the start of my creative process?... Yes??... Well, an old box with cards to learn to read belonging to my children!

I kept the cards inside for another usage maybe later, and gessoed the box on the edges only as I wanted to cover it with papers. I also put a light coat of Gesso on my balloons which are from the small grab bag of balloons. Next I coloured them with several trio Brilliance inks... also added glitter!... :-) I used a mix of gold and silver glitter dusts. I don't remember if I applied them before the ink was dry, or if I used my glue pad to better fix them! You will have to experience that by yourself if you do the same! 

Don't hesitate to pop on over to my blog here to know how I created my beautiful bunch of balloons in the air. I have prepared step by step instructions if you wish to do again something like that for your kids or grandchildren one day. I don't put them here because of the number of photos that come with them!!

I heat embossed with Frantage aged rose embossing enamel two mini hearts and my small banner, also by Tando. I glued on each flag a tiny reproduction of an extra-large banner of flags also created for the occasion... you can also see it on my blog. That was a perfect combination as I had exactly 7 scalloped flags in both banners! :) 

By the way.... Did you notice on the top the two Cupcake albums I showed you a couple of weeks ago?... I put on their back and on the lid of the box a few bits of velcro. Thanks to that I can easily withdraw or affix them as desired! 

I used the remaining Tando's Cupcakes from the grab bag to decorate the sides of the box, combined to a few stamped images. I used different colours of paints to embellish them.

My box is lying on a tray done from a board square of dimensions 30.5x30.5 cm (12-inch). I cut it in thick greyboard, and glued on each of the two sides a scrap paper from an old festive collection by Webster's Page. The tip of gluing on the reverse side another sheet of paper allows to absorb the distortions of cardboard under the effect of glue! I also edged the tray with four strips of cupcakes cut out from glittered papers using a Sizzix strip die and assembled.

Here is a top-view of my final project with all the elements... I also created small gourmet mini cakes and sweets in Polymer (Wepam & Fimo) to fulfill the tray.

At the end..... all can be stored in the box haha! :-)  Even the balloons can be withdraw if needed.

I really hope you like this funny project, even if is not a Christmas one... But I think it can easily be adapted to do a beautiful Christmas table, don't you think so?...  

Supplies from Tando Creative:  

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! Hugs Coco xx

Let's Celebrate: Mini-albums Cupcake for birthday

Hi all !! You must be very busy now with your Christmas cards and other festive makes... Hope you can still look at our daily posts anyway, as we have always a lot of inspiring projects to show you ! And till up to the day of St Nicholas !!
For this "Let's Celebrate" week, I show you at laaaaaaaaast........ part of the decorations I have made to celebrate my 6 years-old twins birthday...hem... it was two months ago... already !!... Time goes by so quickly haha ! You will see the rest of them and the whole project in a few days... That's a surprise... you just have to wait a little hee hee, hope you will not be disappointed ! 

I used sweet Tando's Cupcake chipboards to do the front cover of each one. They come in a small pack of three really adorable cupcake shapes... They also exist in a larger size pack but I didn't have it, otherwise I think I would have used this one. Pages inside are drew and cut following the original cover shape, using either scraps of patterned papers or recycling cardboard. I assembled the two minis and used a Crop-a-dile to make holes, it was easy to punch through the chipboard also even if it is sturdy material. 
To decorate my albums I used mainly the set of stamps "Hello Cupcake" from Crafty Individuals (CI 374), love these funny stamps designed by Alice Palace. I have succeeded in combining them with Tando's cupcakes and I'm rather happy with the result!  

For the rest, I used shrink plastic to stamp the same cupcakes and create tiny embellishments... also added beads, twin, and wire, used my favourite Fresco Finish paints and my Brilliance inks for colouring.... Put some accents with tone on tone markers... A bit of iridescent embossing powders for a sparkling touch at last... Nothing but happiness !! :D

 And here are just a few pages... they both include around 5 pages decorated on each side.

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If you want to see all the photos, pop over on my blog too.  Have a wonderful and creative week, see you soon for my next project! Hugs, Coco xx