Update on the 21st Burlesque themed party

So I have finally received a few of the pictures from my nieces Burlesque themed Birthday party and I am pleased to advise that it went down very well. Shanna looked stunning, everybody came dressed for the occasion and fun was had by all.

If you can remember I made her invitations and some of the decorations for the champagne bottles, Burlesque themed cupcake stand with fake cupcakes as decorations and Thank you tags for the quests. I had to make the individual parts and then post to South Africa for them to put together. My original idea was that the cupcake stand would be seen from all directions but in the end the only spot for it was up against a wall which made decorating the top as I pictured more difficult. However, I do think that my Mom did a good job of completing my project. Thank you for looking and come back soon. Leave comments if you please!!

Here are a few photos of the end results:

Cupcake stand with the decorations.

Corset decoratios for the champagne bottles.

Thank you tags for the guests.

This is my niece Shanna and her boyfriend, all dressed up for the occasion.

Shanna's corset birthday cake make by a friend !

Review on the completed 21st Burlesque theme invites

My niece has sent me a photograph of the completed Burlesque themed 21st invites. I cut out the base for each invite with a inner patterned layer and the tag to write on and with my Mum's help the invites where completed and posted. Here are the photos I received of the completed invites:

 This is the complete invite

 This is on the front of the corset shaped tag:

Info written on the back of the corset shaped tag:

Thank you for looking

Egg shell mosiac

I was in Auckland last weekend for the Nickelback concert, which was awesome, but while I was there I decided to search the craft shops for Alcohol ink. I managed to find 6 different colours but to get tones and shades that complimented each other I had to take Light colours. This meant that the colours are still not fibrant on the egg shell mosiac technique. But with another 21st Birthday coming up I figured I would try the new Alcohol ink and see what I came up with. I could not find the Perfect pearls spray that I need for this technique but managed to find Tattered Angels Glam glitter paint which a copper tone to it so I have used this on the end result which gave it a slight shimmer.

 I originally cut out the shape in Spellbinders label but it ended up to big for the card that I was planning to make so I cut out an oval with an oval scalloped shape to mat it with. Handmade roses, pearls, organza ribbon and 21 covered with Glossy Accents finished the card.

Please let me know what you think by leaving comments

See ya

More Invitations

It is with huge disappointment that I tell you all that the invitations I cut out and posted to South Africa for my nieces 21st Burlesque theme party have still not arrived - 6 weeks and 2 days later. Its crunch time on getting these invites out so I have had to re-cut 30 invites with tags to start all over again. However this time I decided on a different pattern for the corset and keep in mind that I have only cut out the parts for each invitation and sending it on to Shanna to decorate and complete.

 This photo is without the tag inside it. She wants to have red or silver ribbon to lace up the corset but I have used black ribbon because I did not have enough red ribbon.

This is with the corset tag inside.

Thank you for looking

Album gift

I decided to make my friends daughter an album using the photo's taken at her 21st  tea party and have been busy with this for about 2 weeks now. Each page of the album is a different shape - keeping with the tea party theme. But I have never done one of these before and I found it rather ...... I want to say "difficult" but it was not difficult - may be different!! Cannot find the words to describe this project really but I still enjoyed ever moment.

I had left over items from the invitations and thank you gifts which I have tried to bring into the album but I really wanted to stick to more photos than decorations. Not sure what she is going to think but I quite like the end result:

Let me know what you think!!

 There is a teabag holder in the teapot on the above picture which was used in the Thank you tea bag holders

 The stained glass window in the picture above is done with acetate, spectrum noir markers and alcohol blending liquid. Also the yellow roses are left over roses from the invitations.

 The thank you stamp on the cupcake page is also from the Thank you tea bag holders

Thank you for looking and please come back later this week, I am busy with another project - also a gift - matchbox dresser - only I have made my own boxes instead of using the match box's.

See you then

Burlesque Birthday card

Greetings to all, just received news that the parcel I sent over to South Africa with the Burlesque themed party decorations has arrived safely and all in tact. Now I have to wait for January to see it all put together.But in the meantime I have been working on my nieces 21st Birthday card and I figured I would keep it simple and in line with what  have already done for her party. The design is very similar to the other 21st Birthday card I made earlier this month for a friends daughter.

Thank you for looking

21st Birthday Card

For some reason, since I decided to start my blog, I have been in undated with requests for 21st Birthday cards and decorations. Don't get me wrong, loving it all, but it does make me realise that age is creeping up on us and our children are no longer children but becoming beautiful and hopefully well adapted strong young adults!!

This young lady shares her birthday every year with her younger brother and this year she is turning 21, which is a huge birthday BUT her brother is turning 18 on the same day, which is also a big birthday!! PARTY TIME!!!!!!

Anyway, I wanted to make her a special Birthday card and because she is such a lady, I wanted to keep it really pretty and simple :

I do believe that I have captured her personality in this card and hope she likes it as much as I do!! Her brothers card I will be doing in the next couple of days and will put photo's up once completed. See ya!!

Update on cupcakes

So the stamp set arrived from the UK today and the stamps where a tiny bit smaller than I was expecting!! But once I got using them I realized that if I was honest with myself, the stamps where a perfect size. So I have stamped them and layed each one with an alternative colour - Silver with red and the red with black and this is what it looks like finished.

Really pleased with the result!!

Update on 21st Tea party

Just a note to advise that the 21st Tea Party was a huge success and here are two photo's of the cupcake stand and thank you treat bags at the setting:

Corsets for the champagne bottles

Hi again, so this is the final item I have made for Shanna's 21st party. Corsets for the champagne bottles!! So cute!! I cannot take the credit for the idea as I came across something similar on Pinterest but I have totally made it my own and extremely happy with how it came out!!

 I cut out the corsets and glued everything in place but they looked to flat so I decided to add a red bow which I must admit made it look so much better but I was still not happy and in the end decided to add some bling!! What is a project without some bling anyway??????

Oh this is so cute!! I just love it all!!Let me know what you think and any ideas would be much appreciated!!

Cupcake stand

So working on Shanna's Burlesque themed party, got me thinking about further decorations. I searched the internet to find a template of a dress form cupcake stand and could not find anything. What I could find was a normal stand but the actual cupcakes are themed which is not what I wanted. So I got to designing my own  cupcake stand that is dress form shaped. I used an existing SVG dress form file, which I enlarged and cut our 4 times. Scored each one down the middle and glued them together. This gives me the stand!!

Then I cut out three circles - 7" x 7", 9" x 9" and 11" x 11" which makes up the three layers of the stand. Cut in slits on the top so that I can put them in place on the dress form stand. Top layer is silver, middle is red and the bottom is black.

Nothing is glued into place or secured and that is why it looks all a bit wobbly and off balance. I unfortunately cannot put this together permanently as it has to be posted to South Africa!!

The next step is adding lace and trim with sequins to the edge of each layer.

  However, as you can see in the last photo, you can see the hot glue used to attach the lace and trim. Did not like this so I decided to make more roses and decorate the inside of each layer to hide the glue.

ONCE AGAIN WHAT WAS I THINKING!!! Does not matter how much work and time it took to make enough (100 odd) roses, I really like the outcome and am glad that I lost sanity for a day and made all these roses:

So this is as far as I can go with this cupcake stand. I will be boxing it up and it will be put together in South Africa for the party. However, my idea I had from the start was for the top of the stand to look like it was exploding!! So  I have made deco items to be attached to skewers and placed on the top of the stand. I decided on the number 21 x 2, burlesque masks x 6, stars x 4 and some cute sticks with silver balls attached. All of these will be placed on the top of the stand with heaps of black feathers so as to keep with the Burlesque theme!!

I cannot wait to see what this all looks like once put together. The party is only in January 2013 so I have quite a while to wait to see it complete but because of the time period it takes to get to South Africa by post it was important to get it done now!!

Please let me know what you think!!