Tea Party Baby Shower

So my daughter's friend is having a baby and she wanted to make the invites for her. We had so much fun making them. We tried to go shabby chic and fun. Since it was a surprise shower we had to figure out a way to convey it through the invitation and still like how it looked.
After much searching we found the statement a baby is brewing and fell in love with it. Then we had to figure out the papers. We mostly used  The Preppy Princess Stack by DCWV. It had the colors we were looking for. We printed on velum for the Shhhhh It's a surprise part. I attached the velum with tiny glue dots. I like to call them booger dots, I know weird but funny. Those things are so great.

So we had to make envelopes for the invitations as well. I absolutely love the We R Memory Makers Envelope Punch Board. It makes it sooooo easy. I used the Fresh Floral Stack Paper by DCWV. Nothing was matchy matchy but the colors all went together so well. All we did was put the printed side to the inside of the envelopes. I used double sided tape to put them together and also to close the envelopes.

I wanted to make a banner for the party and needed to keep with the tea party theme and baby shower theme. I found tea cup shapes with floral designs, used rosettes and tiny pre-made roses and home made daisies and teeny tiny flowers and of course lots of different kinds of ribbons.I used the Mix and Match Pad Sugar and Spice, it has printed cardstock, specialty papers and fabrics to make the banner. I sewed all the pennants together on a pretty white lace that had a pink ribbon attached to it.

Congrautlations Banner and congratulatory bouquet June 2015

I didn't want to just make a card for my niece's high school graduation so I made banner filled with the things I thought she would like. She is not a girly girl and when I saw the Chalk Fun Stack by DCWV I knew that was the paper to use. I bought the banner shapes at the Silhouette Store to save time as well as some swim items, camera and film shapes, rosettes and letters.I also took a dna strand that was in a circle and made that into a cutting file. I took about a week making all the components for the banner. I used black twill tape and sewed all the pennants together. I am really happy with the way it came out.

I also made a bouquet of flowers for her. I used Authentique Nostalgic Essentials stack. Some of the papers were two sided so it made for a very nice flower. I double sided the fern for a more substantial look.

For fun I also made graduate caps on a straws. I saw it here, Graduation Cap Paper Straws, it is so easy to make. I created all the components and put them together while I waited for the graduation to start. I wanted a really good seat. I used black cardstock and yellow embroidery floss. It was too cute