Rock Star Banner

My son celebrates his Birthday today. He is my Rock Star and all around awesome kid. I wanted to surprise him when he got home from school today, so in a hurry I made this banner to hang directly in his view upon entering the house. I literally had an hour to create it before I had to head off to work. {I have a witness to the madness if you don't believe it} I made the tags look like tickets. My son is a big Killers fan and really into his music. He can't wait to spend his money on i-tunes.

The tags measure 4x6 and made from white daisy cardstock. I then covered them with You Rock B&T pattern paper. I used a circle punch to cut the corners off each of them. I used Star Power stamp set to stamp the guitar in mixed colors, then embossed it again in black and cut it out. All the letters, from Rustic Alphabet, were also embossed in black. I mounted them on colored cardstock to coordinate with the pattern paper and attached to the tag. I then punched 2 holes in the tops of each and ran white string through the holes. To keep the tags from sliding around I glued some thick orange ribbon to the tops of the tag, pleated it and stapled it to secure. I added the "you" to the top of the guitar using Cocktail Alphabet.

His response to it when I got home was: "That's really cool Mom, you were thinking about me today". "I think about you everyday" I told him. We'll complete our evening with his choice of Cheesy Chili Dogs and a tower of Fudge Brownies with a candle on top!!! Total Teenager!

Seriously Girlfriend it's a Party!

My daughter and I had a super creative bonding moment last Saturday. Her and I sat in my craft room and we picked out all the colors and stamps that we wanted to use to make her super Rockin' Birthday invites. She played a huge part in the design and helped out with several jobs.

We started with a page, random stamped on White Daisy with the Star Power and Ms. Chillin' stamp sets. Her color choices were bright and bold just like her personality. Here is the page:




Once the random stamping was complete came the chaos. Time to cut papers, stamp, color, emboss, ink, sand.... whew! Are we ready to assemble yet?



My daughters idea was to make each of them different. Not a single invite is the same. She did a fabulous job coloring all the girls on the card. I would have just made a solid shirt color with a solid pant color, but not her. She did them so colorful, like tie die, she called it "Rupert" style! {Rupert is a Hero contestant on Survivor}

Here's one of the cards up close:

The inside, just like the outside, was done in a different color for each card.

Wait til' you see the Birthday banner I've been creating for her all week long. It was a surprise for her, although I have my doubts that she didn't peek a little into my craft room!!! I'll post pictures of it soon, so come on back!

Rock Star Celebration

We celebrated some Birthday's this weekend that totally ROCKED! Here are a couple of the cards I made for the "Rock Stars" that were partying this weekend. Both use the Star Power stamp set and the You Rock level 2 papers {CTMH}. Look for the skulls in the first one, they were embossed using the Cuttle Bug.