It's that time of the year again!

Yep, my daughter's birthday is coming soon and I have been doing some things to celebrate in style! I am so behind with my blog, so please excuse me... I am in the last stage of my PhD which means craziness all over! I am designing stuff for her birthday and printing/cutting at night when I get home... but I love it! Of course I want to share the little things I am doing for Lorelys Maia's third birthday with all of you, my loyal readers! Just like I did last year.

I decided on the "Alice in Wonderland Tea Party" inspired theme which is a movie that my daughter loves (the original movie). This is the invitation that I designed, I just love how it looks. I incorporated the tea party elements and a colorful palette, it is unlike anything I had seen before and that's what I like the most about it!

Stay tuned for the rest of the things I will be doing... including some cute paper mini cupcake stands inspired by Hello Hanna!

Sweetly Sweet Customers {Winnie the Pooh by Monica}

I had lost contact with one of my high school friends, Monica and she found me on Etsy! This world is so small! She fell in love with my pop-up invitations and asked me to create a pop-up invitation to go with a Winnie the Pooh theme for a little boy, I created this invitation as you may remember.


Well my friend Monica sent me the pics of her son's first birthday some time ago and I wanted to share them with you. I would loved to be there, it all looked wonderful!

Just how cute is that birthday cake! Take care everyone and make sure to share this with your Facebook friends!

New Pop-up Invitation Design: {Sweet Hunny Collection}

A friend of mine found me on Etsy and fell in love with my designs! Although I am on a break, I decided to create a pop-up invitation for her baby boy first birthday. The birthday has a Winnie the Pooh theme, so I created a bee-hunny related theme... hunny like Pooh spell it! I created the invitation with the form of a bee hive with happy bees inside and of course hunny at the top! I drew everything, including the bee and hunny pot myself in AI! This collection will be available on my Etsy Shop soon! Now enjoy the pics I took from my creation.

What do you think? Is this the cutest bee hive you have ever seen?

Invitation Desgin {Circus Birthday Party}

Although I am on a study break, sometimes I get requests for custom work that I can't resist! A client contacted me because she loved my Cupcake Pop-up Birthday Invitation, but wanted it customized for a circus party. As I read her e-mail I started to envision this cute little invitation with a circus flag over it... well let the pictures talk by themselves...

 

This collection will be available on my Etsy Shop soon!

New on my Etsy Shop: {Printable Valentine's Party Collection}

I am so glad that I finally got this listings up on my Etsy Shop! I am in love with this Valentine's Collection, it includes two invitation designs, Sweet Circles, a cute pillowbox and editable tags! No more writing the Candy Buffet labels or place cards by hand! Did I mention that I made all the clipart for the designs?

Here are the pics of the collection!

 

 

 

 

You can find this collection on my Etsy Shop!

Featured Again! {Birthday Girl}

I am doing those leaps of joy again! One of my favorite party girls Becca from Birthday Girl just featured Lorelys Maia's Cupcake Birthday Party!!!  Please take a moment to go to her wonderful blog and leave a comment on my feature ;) If you are not her follower yet, please become one, her blog is full of yummy inspiration and you will find yourself going back often!

Becca said that she was saving this birthday party as a fun start to the new year. Awww, thank you for the sweet words! She also said something that I haven't said yet on my blog and it is that Lorelys was a miracle baby because the doctors said I was infertile... but God had other plans for me and now I have this toddler running around my house!!! Thank you Birthday Girl!

Now I can grab her button... and put it on my side bar... keep them coming!

The goods for this party are available at my Etsy Shop!

New on my Etsy Shop: {Pop-up Cupcake Invitation Assembly Instructions}

At last, I got the instructions for the assembly of my Pop-up Cupcake Invitations ready on my Etsy shop! I finally got the pics I wanted, and had some non crafty friends try them to make sure everyone will be able to follow them. These invitations are easy to do, a little bit time consuming, but the results are spectacular!

This invitations got a lot of attention when they got featured at The Tomkat Studio, a great blog about all things party. Thank you all for being patient and waiting for this file, I made it carefully with lots of love. I will keep adding my collections on Etsy this week, God willing!

 

 

 

 

You can find this PDF file on my Etsy shop here!

Sneak Peek: Damask and Pink Baby Shower

Here is a sneak peak of a baby shower I am working on. My friend asked me to create an invitation to match the nursery room for her little baby girl. The crib set is stunning, very stylish and girly! I will be working on more cute stuff for this collection.

She wanted the invitation to match her nursing room motive and gave me this pic. I don't know from where this pic is, if you know please let me know to give the proper credit!

I am planning on launching my Clothes Line Baby Shower and Cupcake Birthday collections on Etsy before the year ends... I hope I can make it!


What do you think of this new design?

Girl's Clothes Line Baby Shower Invitation

I just finished the girl's version of the Clothes Line Baby Shower invitation and I just had to share with all of you! (See the boy's version here.) This invitation has two beautiful shades of pink and chocolate. Here is a preview of the invitation, I love the scalloped socks and the cute dress!

I am working on a new size for the invitations, 6X7.5 in, this is the size of the photo greeting cards that some photo labs offers (Costco has them at $14.50 for 50 cards with envelopes) for reasonable prizes. Photo lab printing is a good alternative for color heavy projects like this one, and the quality is excellent.  I am not sure what to include in the collection for this invitations... I am doing Sweet Circles by Sweetly Sweet and a pillow box, what else do you think I should design: mini boxes, signs, thank you notes, games? Any advice from my sweetly sweet loyal readers?

Boy's Clothes Line Baby Shower Invitation

I was contacted by a local mom to work on a baby shower invitation for a baby boy. The mom wanted a simple 5X7 invitation with a clothes line in blue and chocolate. I designed all the elements of the invitation in Adobe Illustrator, it was a lot of hard work, but I love the results! The gift in the invitation may look familiar... I used the same bow design as in my Christmas Collection and DIY Letter to Santa Kit. I also designed the polka dot pattern in the bib, you will see a similar pattern in another custom work I am working on.

I love how this invitation turned out and I am currently working the girl's version, with a cute dress and scalloped socks in pink and brown, and also on Sweet Circles! Both invitations will soon be available at my Etsy Shop!

Now tell me, do you think this invitation is sweetly sweet?

Lorelys Maia's Cupcake Birthday Party!

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Yesterday was Lorelys Maia's birthday and it was a success! It all went so fast, but we had so much fun.  I had previously posted the invitations, cupcake toppers and candy boxes. And here are some pictures of the event, I hope you love it!

From Sweetly Sweet

From Sweetly Sweet

Here are the pics from the birthday!

 

 

 

 

 

The candy buffet turned out better than I expected, I absolutely love how it looked!

 

These cupcake candles were handmade by a local artisan, they looked and smelled like the real thing. I definitely need to learn how to do candles and soaps, that is on my check list now!

 

Marshmallow Pops, a shortcut by Kim from the Tomkat Studio for Bakerella's Cupcake Pops.

 

The birthday banner.

Table decorations, the whole room smelled yummy!

 

Some games for adults and older children, they match the cupcake theme.

 

And of course, prizes for all the games.

 

One of the games, toddler race to dad... every toddler won a prize of course!

Can you guess which one is my little toddler?

 

 

Cupcake tower and toppers, the cupcakes were delicious!

This is my beautiful baby Lorelys Maia. She is very happy with her new Pinky Dinky Doo doll and enjoying candy from the sweets table.

 

Happy Birthday my little sweety! That's me and my husband with our little princess.

 

 

Lorelys opening some of her presents... she was all ohh, wowww!

Well, everything is over now, looking back I realize there were so many pics I did not take... but it was a really fun party! Enjoy!