The Papercraft Junkie

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Space Ranger Nici turns 2!

It's hard to believe our little munchkin Nici turned 2 on the 29th April 2011.

We had a small party with a space theme not to mention 2 celebrations before that.

Here is the invite I created using some images I saw on the net as inspiration as I wanted the retro rocket vintage look and think I achieved it. I added ink on all of the edges to give it a vintage smoked effect then added glitter which the boys played with so will have to re apply and add a better image later.

All in all, I was happy with it and what made me more happy was the boys worked out what it was and ran around the house making rocket sounds and yelling rocket.... rocket!

I must have done an alright job.

Here are some pics of the decorations and games.

I think the Birthday boy, his brothers and Kieren had a fun time especially when it came to blowing out the candles. Nici had his turn (being the birthday boy and all) then everyone else had their turn. They had a hoot just blowing out candles!

The cake shape was inspired by something I found on the Internet. Will add when when I find it.

Our Beautiful Family!

(Taken by Ari, Thank you!)

I will take another picture tomorrow showing you what I do with the decorations after I have finished. To give you an idea.....the theme moves its way into the birthday boys room and stays there until his next birthday, next year.

Hope you enjoyed this post.

Ciao for now!

Friday, April 15, 2011

Mini me

I attended a workshop at my friend Ari's house and we made these mini cards.

They are just georgeous. Not my idea. Credit goes to Teresa the 'Stampin up' demonstrator for these wonderful creations and another enjoyable night at Ari's.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Recycled Paper fish tank

Thanks to Joel from 'Made by Joel' we made this paper aquarium using as much recycled materials as we possibly could.

First I printed out the images on paper then the boys got crafty and watercoloured the images.

Add a little glue and stick them to old cereal boxes leaving the brown side on the back which I was going to paint but haven't got there yet.

Leave for about a day then cut out the shapes. I used fine transparent sewing thread to hang mine then added the finishing touch......create coral from brown paper (I have no idea how I did this....I just did).

Stick it down with glue, insert the buttons into the slots and let the kids play. I might just get them to take this into school for show and tell. You could dress these up with glitter and add celophane for water.

Check out Joel's blog. It's awesome! and includes the detailed tutorial http://madebyjoel.blogspot.com/2010/05/wall-hanging-box-aquarium.html

Add a little pepper and salt

"I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg".

Our boys certainly love eggs and whenever I ask 'what would you like for lunch or dinner?' they always scream EGGS.

As a result, we are looking at buying little chicks as pets for the boys. Nothing better than a productive pet I say!

Here are all three boys making scrambled eggs today. The best part for Declan was grinding the pepper, for Lucas it was mixing the eggs and for Nici is was licking the salt.

You can see through all of this Lucas was focussed and concentrating on mixing those eggs.

Our boys are going to be future Heston Blumenthals! I hope :)

What pond?

You may recall my previous post where my darling husband filled in our pond.

Here is the final picture with new grass (which the kangaroos love).

Now we are left with one big patch of grass for the boys to run around on.

http://medo-mummy.blogspot.com/2011/02/our-beautiful-pond.html#links

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

More cards

So my crafty girlfriends and I continued our card making theme from last friday. The cards are the same but different. The stamp sets are from 'Stampin up' and the paper was too. Here are a few.