Spa Party Invitations

With the Sex in the City movie coming out this weekend, I am feeling particularly girly. I went into my work files and found my favorite girly project I have worked on so far.

These are Spa Party Purse invites I made for one of my best friends daughters. I love the way they came out, very contemporary girly. To create these I made a pattern of the purse using photoshop. I then cut the purse pattern out using 2-sided scrapbook paper from Martha Stewart that I found at Walmart (I loved this paper because there's a different pattern on each side).

For the inside I again used photoshop to create the frame and added the wording. I printed it on plain white cardstock paper (although thinking about it now I should have used full sheet label paper, it would have been a lot easier to place inside), I cut out the frame and glued it to the inside. Then I punched 2 holes on the front flap of the purse and tied a little black bow.

Now to the not so fun stuff...I'm still trying to figure out this blog thing, so as soon as I figure out how to post the template for this project I will, I PROMISE! In the meantime....don't have the time to put this together, you can buy them made from my etsy shop.

Girl Scout Swaps

For Mother's Day Weekend my Girl Scout Troop (I'm a proud leader) decided they wanted to go to the Girl Scout Thanks-a-Lot event at the Nick Hotel in Orlando. I was very nervous as this was our troop's first trip and my girls really have not interacted with other Girl Scouts out of our City.

For the event, the Girls had to take swaps to trade with the other Girl Scouts...so in comes crafty leader to come up with something.

We decided to make little flamingo swaps since our troop is based in Hialeah, Florida and Hialeah is known for it's famous racetrack which is also a flamingo sanctuary. We found flamingo beads we strung on a pin and from the bottom we hung a little tag that said our troop's info.

Needless to say that the girls loved the swaps. They all sat around a table and put them together without complaining. I think they did a fantastic job!

Happy Mother's Day

In the spirit of Mother's Day I thought it was only fair to post the lovely gift my 6 year old son Javy gave to me today. It's a Daisy made with a toilet paper roll, how clever! Guess I'm not the only crafty person in the family.

Happy Mother's Day!