Ice cream party tags and game

My seven year old granddaughter was having an ice cream themed birthday party at a local frozen yogurt restaurant. I helped her mother by making the ice cream tags to put on the party favors. I cut them out using my Cricut machine and the Simply Charmed Cartridge.
I punched holes in the tops of the cones and left them blank for her mom to write on.

Instead of Pinning the Tail on the Donkey they decided to put the Cherry on the Ice Cream Sundae. I made the sundae by sketching it out freehand then cutting the pieces out from colored scrapbook paper scraps I had on hand. After assembling it I added a few accents with my glitter pen. They hung it on the wall for a decoration until it was time for the children to try to put the cherries on. It was a fun time!

 

Halloween Treats

I made some special cupcakes for Halloween this year...vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing with scary eyes...pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting with fondant bats.

For the fondant bats I cut out of heavy card stock a bat using my Cricut and the Create A Critter 2 Cartridge to use a pattern. And then, yes I did, I cut out each bat with a knife going around my bat pattern. It was a little tedious, but worth it. My only mistake was rolling the fondant too thin, so I did have a little trouble with the wings threatening to break off.

For the eyes, I cut out circles from white fondant, cut the circles in half, then used a food safe marker to make pupils. That was easy!

I forgot how delicious made from scratch cupcakes taste! Yum! They were a hit.

Disney Cricut Princess Decorations-Extras

In an earlier blog I said that I would post additional wall decorations for my granddaughter's princess birthday party. I got a little sidetracked with back-to-school preparations. So here are the extras that I made for the party.

 

 

No princess party would be complete without a castle! This is from the Cricut Once Upon a Princess Cartridge.

Cinderella Slipper was made with glitter paper from Michael's but I don't know who makes it.  This is from the Disney Happily Ever After Cricut Cartridge.



Cinderella's Coach complete with horse. This was also from Happily Ever After Cartridge. I used ribbon for the harness and added gems.



  Sophia Banner: I didn't have the Cricut Pennant Cartridge at the time, so I improvised and used the Cricut Stand and Salute Cartridge. Recollecitons Hallographic Paper from Michaels was used for the crowns on the banner. I attached the banner sections with glittered blue ribbon from Michaels.

Working with Cricut is still a work in progress for me, but I think I am starting to get the hang of it. I hope you have learned something from my creations. 

Welcome Back Ducks

Tonight I was busy creating a door decoration for my daughter's classroom. I used my Cricut Expression machine to cut out the ducks and the words. I used New Arrival Cricut cartridge for the small ducks cut at 4"and Just Because Cartridge for the large duck cut Fit To Page. The words were made using the Don Juan cartridge. I used the Cricut Design Studio to weld the letters of the words together. The paper used was cardstock stack from DCWV.

Disney Cricut Princess Decorations

Disney Princess Decorations

Using Cricut Machine and Cartridges

 

The theme of my granddaughter's third birthday was Disney Princesses. I created eight Disney Princesses to use as wall decorations for the party using Cricut Cartridge Disney Dreams Come True and Cricut Cartridge Disney Happily Ever After. For most of the princesses I used the Fit to Page setting of my Cricut Expression machine using 12 x 12 paper.

Cinderella






 

Snow White

Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Belle were the first ones I did. I added a few embellishments to add some dimension and sparkle to the princesses.

Sleeping Beauty

Belle

 

Next, was Jasmine,  Pocohantas, Ariel and Mulan.

 



Jasmine

Pocohantas






                                 

Ariel

Mulan



In my next posting I will show you a few extra decorations that I made in addition to the princesses.