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

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

Update on the Thank you tags

Well this will be the final post for my Nieces 21st Burlesque party for now. I was waiting for red rhinestones to come from Malaysia via Ebay and that also arrived this morning - with my stamps from the UK!! So I could finally complete the entire project, all I have to do now is box it up and post it off to South Africa tomorrow:

 I have added two little red rhinestones - just for that splash of colour. Hope you like!!The first picture shows without the red rhinestones and the second with - I really think it makes a big difference.

Well its been a huge task for me to do this project and I am really pleased with everything I have done, Just hope that my niece can see where I was going with all that I have made for her. Hold thumbs that it will all reach its destination in one piece and that all it will be what Shanna had in mind for her 21st.

See ya around!!

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!!

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!!

Burlesque

Hello there, to follow the last post I did, I have been working non-stop on making Thank you tags for my nieces 21st Birthday party and this has been a bigger job than I anticipated. However, its been heaps of fun!

As a reminder, Shanna decided on Burlesque as her theme and this has been an inspiration to me!!  I used the same design as I did for the tags challenge for the Swap Group in Australia! Cut out mannequins, made corsets and a skirt for each one as well. I stamped the mannequins with the Kaisercraft Script stamp and distressed it with Tim holtz Vintage photo ink. I did the same for the background of the stamp except I used the Kaisercraft music notes stamp and then stamped the feather over it and embossed with black embossing powder..A piece of black ribbon and 3 handmade red roses, black eyelit and a combination of red, black and silver ribbon completed the tags. However I still feel that it needs a splash of colour so I have ordered red rhinestones off ebay to place in the center of the circle on the feather. Just waiting for them to arrive to official complete them.

This what 90 handmade roses look like!! What was I thinking????

Update on 21st Tea Party Thank you treats

 Last month I posted the 21st Invitations with thank you treat holders and cupcake stand that I made for my friends 21st. This post links up with those posts! I have made envelopes to put the tea bags in and then into the thank you treat holders. Cut out of cupcake printed vellum bought from Spotlight and then I tried to make it look like a teabag as well to keep to the theme. Very happy with how it came out:

Just in case you not sure of what I am talking about I have added a picture of the Thank you treat holders:

This is what it looks like from the inside:

 and

Cupcake stand and Thank you teabag holders

In my previous post I showed you the 21st Tea Party Invites that I made for a friends daughter. In the latest Docrafts Creativity magazine there is a stunning cupcake stand with templates which I looovvvveed and had to try. So I got thinking and what is a Tea Party without a CUPCAKE STAND? For the first time making something like this I am very happy with the outcome - Sure hope Cheyenne is going to love it!!

Once again everything was cut out with my Cricut Expression . Love my Cricut and I would be lost with out it.

Sticking to the theme of the Invites - the paper is also from the Grace Taylor Vintage Collection and I tried to stick to the same colour tones however the roses I made a few shades lighter to make sure that it was not the center of attention when looking at it. The lace border is also a SVG File and the 3D cupcake on the top of the stand is from the "Happy Birthday to you" set at SVG Cuts.

Moving on to the Thank you gifts for the Tea Party:

I am an online  member of "Splitcoaststampers" in USA and I also get alot of my inspiration and ideas from the stunning projects uploaded to the Gallery, There is also a weekly tutorial that their send by email to all the members. Probable about 1 year ago or so there was a tutorial on "How to make a Tea Bag Holder" for a gift and I figured this would be appropriate for the Tea Party. This is what I came up with:

Happy Birthday Cheyenne, May your day be as special as you are!!

See ya!!

21st Birthday Party

A dear friend of mine's daughter is turning 21 soon and her  idea for a 21st Birthday Party with her University friends is a good old fashioned Tea Party. I offered to create her invitations and wanted to keep true to her personality and this is what I came up with. I must be honest and say that the inspiration came from a picture I found on Pinterest and I tried to make it my own. So here goes:

The tea pot template I  found on Pinterest but for the life of me I cannot remember which blog it was linked to - I do have the SVG FILE on my computer. So should anybody be interested in obtaining the template then email me and I will forward on to you.

The range of papers is from the Grace Taylor Vintage Collection with matching card stock as the base and lid. I have used my Cricut Expression to cut out the pieces to make up the Teapot card, flourish and the bases of the Mini prima type roses. The roses are handmade by myself and the leaves are from the Cuttlebug Quilled Chrysanthemum Kit.

The label with "You're Invited" is from the Couture Creations and all the inking is Tim Holtz distress ink.
I also used embossing powder and tiny micro beads to enhance the tip of the lid to make it appear rounded. I discovered this technique a few months back and really enjoy the end result!

So that is what I came up with - hope you like and I would love to hear what you think of them.

See ya!!