Celebrating my goddaughter's 9th birthday!

My dear goddaughter turned 9 last Saturday. She had a blast at Chuck e Cheese's. 

I made the "9" for the top of the cupcakes tower. 

She wanted bright colors and Summer elements so I included waves and an umbrella among other things. 

Here's the back side of the project. 

I also stamped some flowers, sandals, fruits, and other images for each cupcake to have one top. 

Take a look at them here:

And see the beautiful girl enjoying it all. 

Tks for your visit and your comments. 

Live your life... and forget your (my) age!

Dear friends...

As you have read in my recent posts, I had a birthday recently!  I'm a very grateful for God's blessings and to celebrate life is a way of saying Thanks... and have some fun too!  I feel that even though there are things in my life I wish I had, the others I do have are the ones that really matter.  Besides, the things we don't have are the ones that make us stronger to keep fighting or persevering to accomplish them or other new things we don't even expect.  Do I make sense?  Well... the thing is that I've celebrated my birthday in different ways... and will keep on celebrating every day of October.

I've had small "get together" activities to celebrate.  With my friend (mother of my goddaughter) at her home, then with mom the day before my birthday, at work with a nice lunch with my coworkers and friends, and many more...  But then, I had an official "get together" last Saturday at the lobby of one of my favorites hotels in the island...

And because this blog is mainly about scrap booking I have to show what I made...

Very simple, but I had to put my personal touch to some of the elements in the party.

The theme of the birthday was the use of damask in the elements.  My digital invitation featured damasks in different colors combined with silver sequins and the message "Live your life... and forget your age!".

Since we decided to give cupcakes to go instead of a cake (easier when you are hanging out, drinking or simply in another party mood, you know?)... I embellished the boxes with stamped damasks in a punched circle over card-stock or patterned paper.  Each combination of damasks, colors and papers was different.

In mass production we placed the cupcakes in the boxes with doilies.  

At the event, we arranged them to simulate a cake.  We had to be watching other people wanting to get them thinking they were free giveaways...LOL!

I also gave a scented candle in a jar as a token of appreciation to the people in my party.  I printed the damask and the theme and combined with lace or silver ribbon and sequins to embellish.  Also stamped a damask in a punched circle which I also embossed and painted the surface for dimension.  That was to embellish the lid.

Here's my DH arranging them at the party...

Symmetrically...of course... OCD!  LOL!!!!!

We welcomed the guests with mojitos and  provided for some finger food or appetizers during the night.  As they left, they received the cupcake in a box and the candle.

And... let me share some photos to mark the 45 years celebration event in my life... just for fun...

This is me with my husband.

Here.. with some friends...

A closer look with some of the girls.

Hanging out with some others...

And of course... with a glass of wine!  I went with white that night to keep me refreshed.  It was a Chilean Chardonnay... hotel's house wine.  Pretty good!

Tks for stopping by and tks for your comments.  Keep enjoying life!!!

Happy 8th Birthday... Photos of cupcakes top in action!

Hello WC&S friends and followers...  I'm so happy with all your comments about the cupcake top I made for my goddaughter as per my last post HERE.  Thank you all!  The party was yesterday.  She had a blast! 

I promised to post pictures of the cupcake tower in action, so here they are.

Aren't these cupcakes beautiful?  They are from Walmart... Yes, they are... I'm not kidding.  But the most important part is that they were delicious!

This is me with the birthday girl.  She doesn't usually wear makeup.  Remember the party was a spa day so the girls were allowed to use makeup, their nails painted, they even had a facial and a craft activity... and they had like a fashion show at the end where they all walked and modeled for us to enjoy.

My goddaughter loved the party and she said what she enjoyed most was the moment everybody sang the Happy Birthday song to her.

Tks for stopping by.

Happy 8th. Birthday!

Hello... Happy Friday, and it's the first day for Summer!!!

How's your week been?  Mine has been productive... and full of surprises.  In case you wanna know, here's a summary... Or you can skip this paragraph and go directly to next one.  Weekend started with a homework to do for my goddaughter (I will tell you in a little bit); I dedicated the whole Saturday (literally) just for that, then an accident caused my 1st floor at home to get full of water on Father's Day so we could not go anywhere (some furniture damage), then an unplanned cool get together with neighbors at night, lots of work at the office (people say that when the cat is not home, mice go party!  I think it should be the opposite... it's when more pressure you have not to be absent or miss anything... I mean my boss is out of office just in case you didn't understand my humor LOL), then had to do some medical checkups, also my dog has an ear infection, good surprise that I had lunch with my DH in the middle of the week, mom still waiting for her car to get fixed, and finally will do my nails today...  Exciting, huh?  This is what life is all about...

Today's my goddaughter 8th. birthday.  There will be a little party tomorrow... just a get together with some friends to have a nice spa.  This kind of birthday celebrations for girls is kind of the "in" thing right now.  Her mother wanted me to make a top for the cupcakes tower, and also a tag or embellishment for the bags.

The cupcakes top had to have an "8" and some room to place a single cupcake where she plans to place the candle.

So I bought a foam 8 and used as stencil for its own covers...

Made sure to ink a bit to cover imperfections...

Covered one side with stamped cardstock...

And then realized I didn't like the interior of the holes, or basically the way you can see the back of each others' edges from the opposite side, so I had an idea...

I covered one of the sides to make it flat like this:

But then left the other one open to use as the front side and create some dimension.

Inspired by the birthday theme I'd cut some flowers, to which I draw lines to look like imperfect sewing and simulate the original ones.

I also stamped bees and several butterflies.

... So I used two of these for the interior of the 8's holes...  nice 3D effect!

I placed the 8 in the base, also made with foam covered with cardstock, and embellished all around... making sure to create a spot for the single cupcake.

This is the front side:

This is the back:

One of the sides...

And the other one...

I assembled the tower to visualize the final work.  I promise I will take pictures of it with the cupcakes tomorrow and will post later so you can see it in action.

Then... it was the bags' turn.  Wanted to make a tag with the birthday girl name and the number 8, but did not want a traditional tag.

So I typed her name and cut with scalloped circle punches, and placed an 8 in the middle.  I also used flowers, bees and butterflies...

Here's how they look...  They will have presents for the girl friends assembled with tissue paper.

And finally... a bonus.

My friend had given me some pieces of large confetti to get inspired. I combined those and some of my stamped images and glued to sticks to be placed in the cupcakes.

Can't wait to see them in use.  By the way, don't you just love this bee from Unity Stamp Co.?

I'm not finished...

I made her a card for tomorrow... Of course I used the same theme.

Stamped butterfly and bee...  cut flowers with drawing and painting for nice finish...  and I made up another beetle with some circles and sequins...

This is the inside of the card:

And here's a closer look to the nice colorful elements.

Stamps used are from Unity Stamp Co, TAC, Inkadinkado and Latina Crafter.

Tks for stopping by.  Love to read your comments.

Have a great weekend.

2 For the Sketch of 1

Hello... Happy middle of the week!

I received some stamps I ordered recently from Unity...  There were grab bags among them and the stamps included were a pleasant surprise.  One of them was this beautiful Christmas tree I just love.

So I made a card using the sketch of the November KOM Sketch Challenge from Unity.

I stamped the tree with green ink and added green embossing powder before applying heat with the gone.  Love the effect (the photo doesn't make justice but you can get the idea).

This is the sketch:

And this is the whole card:

Then I realized this sketch was very suitable for a CAS card... so I was ready to make another one and thought of the current The Outlawz Challenges Sunday challenge.  This time I used another one of the surprise stamps showing a tower of sweet cupcakes.   Mmmmmm...   I rotated the card to make it vertical.

I hope you liked my cards...  And I hope you leave me a comment.  I really enjoy reading them.

Have a nice rest of the week!