I had the best birthday party EVER!
I really wanted to have a party where my friends could do something fun and take something home with them...kinda like a Build A Bear party...but for big people ;-)
My friend Andi had sent me this
link and I was so inspired by the wreath that I decided to have a Crafty Birthday Party. The base craft was the fabric flowers, but we made lots of different things out of them.
Ring - the inspiration
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Necklace - the inspiration
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Wreath - the inspiration
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Picture Frame - the inspiration
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Paper Mache Letter - the inspiration
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Here's a couple tutorials on how to make the fabric flowers
Emily's at The Anderson Crew -
hereThe only thing I would add to the tutorials would be: USE A LOW TEMP GLUE GUN!
About half the glue guns we used at the party were high temp and we learned pretty fast the difference between high and low temp, because you DO get glue on your fingers. Low temp glue doesn't hurt. High temp glue makes you squeal a little.
Ok...ready for some pics???
Here you go...
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| everyone working away |
Before this party I owned no fabric.
I shopped the fabric scraps half price bins every time I went to a craft store for weeks.
And a couple of my friends brought their fabric too.
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| the messy supply table |
I loved getting awkward candid pics of people working ;-)
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| Erin's concentration face |
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| Diet Coke, outlets, and happy crafters! |
Silly Jill :-)
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| my first fabric flower! |
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| some of my flowers |
Have you ever heard of Strawberry Cassata Cake? My friend's mom use to make this fabulous cake for my birthday parties when I was little. Apparently it's a Cleveland
thing (where I grew up). Who knew?! Well, it's really yummy and Jill labored over it and we all uber-appreciated it!
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| yummo! |
The everyone-is-singing-and-looking-at-me-therefore-I-am-embarrassed look.
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| happy birthday to me |
We left the cake to continue crafting and this is what we found a little while later. How sad is that?! It was still totally edible...hubby and I can testify to that ;-)
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| sad little strawberry cassata cake |
Here comes the fun pics...everyone's finished projects!!
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| Janel's daughters were super jealous that Mom was going to a craft party without them ;-) |
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| Kelly had her baby the very next day!! Woohoo!! |
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| Kristin was busy making all her fun fabric flower crafts |
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| Rene made the green and orange frame specifically for her 3yo daughter (her favorite colors)...who ended up not caring about it at all. {sigh} 3 year olds {shakes head} |
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| Erin was cranking out the crafts. She brought fabric that she used in her living room...now her wreath matches her living room. Great idea! |
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| Andi is a fan of brown, blue, and white...can you tell?? |
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| Jill - the cake maker - also had fun making her crafts |
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| Kim is a self-professed non-crafty person...but she still managed to bust out some fabric flowers and take some fabric home to work on later. |
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| all my handiwork....SO.MUCH.FUN |
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| still need to find a mantel...could you even imagine this fireplace any other color...ya me neither! |
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| LOVE |
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| I wore my necklace the very next day :-) And you don't even want to know how many tries it took to get this picture...goodness gracious! |
Hope you're inspired to do a Crafty Birthday Party sometime! I highly recommend it!
