Cupcake Party: Chef's Hat with Coffee-Filter Flower

This is a craft the kids did at my daughter's recent cupcake birthday party!  The kids would be decorating cupcakes and making pizza, so a chef's hat fit right in with the cooking theme.

The Chef's Hats were found here.  I found them to be of decent quality, however they need to be stapled in the back once they are sized to the child's head.

I saw this idea for the coffee filter flower and modified it to fewer cupcake liners and coffee filters to make it easier for the kids.

Gather your supplies:

• Chef's Hat
• 6 coffee filters
• 3 regular sized cupcake liners 
• 1 mini cupcake liner
• 1 Button
• Plain old school glue

Directions:

• Glue together two coffee filters, turning the second upside down on top of the first
• Glue a third coffee filter correct side upon top of the others... this creates a more fluffy flower bottom.  Let this dry, if possible.

• Fold the last three coffee filters in half and then half again, creating pie shaped pieces.

• Glue the three coffee filters on the flower bottom 

• Fold three cupcake liners in half and then half again, making pie shaped pieces.
• Glue cupcake liners on top of coffee filters. 

• Glue the mini cupcake liner on top of the others. 

• Glue a button into the middle of the flower 

• Glue the entire flower onto the front of the chef's hat. 

• Embellish otherwise, we had the kids add their names to the front with name stickers (photos to come soon).
• Size the hat to the child's head and staple the back... enjoy!

A Cupcake Birthday: Cupcake Aprons

A few posts back, I showed the cupcake clips that were the true inspiration behind the cupcake party.  Once those were made, the rest started to fall into place. 

I wanted to have a sprinkle bar for decorating cupcakes and then to have the kids make their own pizzas.  If this was going to be a cooking party, then the kids needed aprons.  I found these aprons that just so happened to have the best reviews and be the least expensive... score!   They would make a perfect party favor as well.  I opted to not have the kids decorate their own aprons, because I wanted them to use them right away, but they needed some decor in my opinion, so I went to work...

Supplies:

• Fabric, pink and brown, cut into 6 x 8 inch pieces (this is the size that fits on the Silhouette mat)
• Wonder Under (or the Silhouette brand fabric interfacing)
• Silhouette, custom cutting machine (or a very good cutting hand!)
• Sewing machine with pink and brown thread
• Iron
• Pink or Red buttons to use as a cherry

Directions:

• Iron fabric interfacing onto fabric (follow directions on the package)
• Use the Silhouette machine (or a pair of scissors) to cut the tops and bottoms of the cupcake shapes out of the interfacing [if using the Silhouette machine, there are a variety of different cupcake shapes available on the online store]
• Peel off the back of the interfacing and iron the shapes into the desired spot on the aprons
• Sew inside the shapes with a wide straight stitch.  I went a few times around each one on the top to give a little more 'shabby' effect.
• Add a red button cherry to the top of the cupcake

iLoveToCreate: Cupcake Ribbon Sculpture clip

My olderst daughter just turned SIX!  I planned a little Cupcake-themed party for her and some of her friends and I decided to get a little crafty.

I bought a clip like this at a boutique and thought it was adorable, but they didn't have as many as I would need for her friends at the party. 

{cupcake hair clips attached to party aprons}

Here is where my 'I can make that' drive came in. 

I found my supplies...

• Small pink polka-dotted 'Korker' ribbon {this just refers to how you coil the ribbon and set it}  More information on that here.
• Green ribbon for wrapping...
• Hair clips (I used the alligatior style)
• White, brown, or other color ribbon for cupcake bottom
• Hot Glue
• Aleene's Stiffen Quik and STOP Fraying
• Fabric Scissors

Cut 4, 5 inch strips of white ribbon at a time and lay them on a paper plate.  Spray with Aleene's Stiffen Quik and microwave 30 seconds to speed stiffening process. 

Fold the stiffened ribbon as shown, glueing down the center and trimming the edges. 

You could also trim off the point at the top, if desired.

Use the Aleene's STOP Fraying (or a candle/ lighter) to melt the edges of the ribbon and keep it from fraying.

Take a rope of your korker ribbon and hot glue one side into the corner of the cupcake bottom, as shown below.

 String the ribbon across to the left side.  Glue as you go making sure to not pull the ribbon too tight.

Follow diagram beolw, gluing the ribbon back to the right side and again across the top.

Be sure to leave enough ribbon at the end to tuck in the back.

Cover your alligator hair clips in ribbon.  Remember to STOP Fray the ends of the ribbon.

Hot glue the finished cupcake to the covered clip.  Be aware of which side you would like to clip it into your hair.  My daughters wear their clips on the right side, so I made sure the clips opened to the right.  

Spray whole cupcake now with Stiffen Quik to set the whole 'sculpture'.  My ribbons aren't going anywhere!

Aren't the just adorable?!?! 



St. Patty's Day: Green Eggs and Ham Lunch

So, my fabulous friend Brooke (who needs to update her blog with this!) invited my girls and I over for a Green Eggs and Ham lunch on St. Patrick's Day... and since I am behind on my blogging, I thought I would post it now before I forget and it never makes its way onto the blog.  Really, that would be a shame too because it was SO darned cute and a perfect St. Patrick's Day theme :-)

Here was the adorable plateing...

• hard boiled eggs dyed GREEN
• rolled ham
• a 'Hope Your Day is Lucky' printable attached to a handmade paper cup with rainbow goldfish crackers
• mini can of Sprite
• Shamrock straw (found at Old Navy)
• 'You're My Pot 'O Gold...' printable attached to a bag of rainbow colored jelly-beans and chocolate gold coins!

Thanks again for lunch, Brooke!  The kids had so much fun!  Can we do it again next year?

And, how perfect would this be for Dr. Seus's Birthday??

St. Patty's Day: {Part One} Breakfast | St. Patrick's Day

I had so much fun with St. Patrick's Day this year.  I had planned out breakfast and dinner and we wen't to a friend's house for a fun lunch.  I am going to do a post for each event!

The girls woke up to leprechaun footprints leading to the kitchen table.  There they found a decorated chandelier, a caraffe of green milk, and two bowls of LUCKY Charms cereal!

The super cute FREE printables were found at eighteen25.

'Lucky U' was found on this post.

I'm so LUCKY... was found on this post.

The puffy tissue balls are from Martha Stewart.

iLoveToCreate: Fabric-Covered and Stenciled Bulletin Boards

I am a chronic clearance shopper.  Sometimes it is a good thing, and sometimes it leads to excess 'stuff' in our house.  These bulletin boards, found in a clearance bin for $2.50 a piece, have been laying around my house for a few years.  I knew they would eventually go well in the office or one of the girl's rooms, but I was never entirely motivated to get the hung up. I am kind of glad I didn't because the colors don't really go with anything and recently I actually had some inspiration on what to do with them.

I took some of the fabric I had bought to accessorize Hannah's room and went to work covering each of the four bulletin boards.  I just cut the fabric and hot glued it to the back, pulling tight.

I raided my stash of iLoveToCreate products.  I knew I wanted to use a different Tulip Sticky Fabric Stencil in each of the boards, and I didn't want everything to be too 'matchy' to I got out a variety of fabric paint options.

I am a big fan of the sticky fabric stencils.  They are peel and stick, and they seem to re-stick pretty well.  I started with the bird in one of the corners.

I used Tulip Fabric Spray Paint for the bird.  I just added some paper towels around the sides to make sure the overspray didn't get on the fabric.

On the butterfly I used a sponge and applied some Tulip Soft Fabric Paint and then added some Tulip Fashion Glitter while the stencil was still on.

On the next one I did a purple butterfly, and opted for the Tulip Glitter Spray Paint to glam it up a bit. 

When all the boards had been stenciled, I added a little bling with some Tulip Heat Set Crystals and Tulip Heat Set Tool.

Once everything was dry, we hung them on the wall...

...and started adding photos!  I just did a few, because I want Hannah to be able to add the things she loves.

This was a very functional project, but my Husband pointed out that it kind of matched the Decopauged Fabric Canvases I made a few months ago.  I think they will have their own look once they are completely covered in photos and artwork.  I think I will also try to add a heading above them in vinyl or something.  Do you have any ideas to give it a little pizzaz?

Pomander Kissing Balls | Inspiration

I will be finding the time to be making some of these very soon!

Tutorial found here at WhipperBerry