Mermaid Pirate Birthday Party

Here we go..... the 4rd Mermaid Birthday party for my daughter. Ya, she loves mermaids. We rotate between mermaids and My Little Pony Birthday parties. You would think that I am a pro by now, so not the case. I did however want to show off all the hard work that went into this party!!

My daughter has made a lot of friends that are boys so we wanted to accommodate both boys and girls. So we made this party a Mermaid Pirate Party!

My Inspiration...

 Thank you Fiskars.

Let the fun begin....

Me and my Sister-in-law went crazy on my new chalk board from Chalk Couture. I am in love with this board!! We used chalk pens which are totally erasable. The possibilities are endless, I can't wait for every new holiday so that I can dress it up accordingly. Any who back to my awesome drawing skills, LOL... NOT!!

My Sister-in-law is pretty artistic, not so much me :{ At least not at drawing.

It was actually a lot of fun to do this scene. You can't really tell from the picture but we used shimmer pens and glitter. All the coins in the treasure box are sparkly and so is the sun.

We had grand plans for the cake but in the end we settled for cupcakes.

 Here is the ice cream bar with all the fun toppings

 

 

I am kinda regretting the laminated sea shell, it seamed like a good addition to the treasure box at the time. Oh well... Just hold your hand out in front of your right eye... better?? good!

 We had a Pirate Scavenger Hunt for one of the activities.
I printed these maps on khaki card stock and then rolled them up like treasure maps.
I added fun things like: walk the plank and give me your best pirate arrr...

I had all the kids choose to be a mermaid or a pirate. When we played Red Rover I separated the kids based on what they chose. It was really funny to see the boys getting called over to the mermaid side and then get stuck there. At least they were really good sports!!

One of the kids said "My Mom does not let me have tattoo's"...aahhh I did not think about that.
 Sorry Mom's, you can blame me when they get their first tattoo...
"Remember that birthday party I went to when I was a kid, the one with the fake tattoos...
well ever since that day I have always wanted a real tattoo."
Watch it be one of my kids!! Ha ha...

 
Here is the print out for the Tattoo station

Here is my inspiration for the party favors...
Totally forgot to take a picture of the ones that I made, I am special like that!
Thank you to Stephanie from the Couture Parties for remembering to click a pic!
If you want to see Stephanie's tutorial click here.

These are the print outs that I used on my tags. I printed them out then backed them with red card stock and then used a small star punch to make the hole on the top of the tag. They turned out really cute!

Here is my inspiration for the jelly fish...
Thank you Party City for this fun jelly fish tutorial!

Here are mine!!

Phew, done until next year. Yay!!

Barbie Birthday Cake

 My daughter requested a barbie cake this year for her birthday. So I hopped on to YouTube and started searching for how to pull this off. My daughter loves ballerinas so I knew it had to have a ballerina barbie in it. After some browsing I had a game plan: 4 tiers, layered fondant flowers, white six-lets, lots of edible glitter and of course a barbie doll. It was not too hard to make, it did take several hours to make though so if you are going to try and make one "plan ahead".

Not bad for a first try... I am defiantly not going into the cake making industry or anything like that. I will just stick to making my own kids birthday cakes ;)

 Next time I will have to purchase something smaller to write my daughters name with.

 We ran out of room to do it with the six-lets and ended up with 2 E's on the bottom row.

Here are a couple of pictures I managed to take during the process.

  I put plastic wrap around barbie during the frosting stage so that she would not get dirty.

  

My daughter seamed to be really happy with it

 so I guess that's all that matters! 

Bubble Gum Bracelets

This isn't a real post, it’s mostly just a fun

picture of gum ball bracelets that my 

daughters and I made for party favors. 

Aren't they cute!! They were super easy to make too!!

Birthday Present Decor

I made these cute presents and I am so excited to show them off but our next birthday in the family is not until the end of December, dang it. I picked up the unfinished wooden blocks at The Wood Connection in SLC. The have all these presents already cut out and ready to paint. I wish I would have taken a picture of them before I started painting and embellishing. They are sold individually for a couple of dollars each. I had a very hard time in their store because I wanted EVERYTHING. I also picked up the word wicked for Halloween, I will post pictures once its done. Read on to see the steps I took to make them.

I started out by sanding my wood a little, they don't need much. Then I  painted them with a paint that coordinated with the paper I chose. After letting it dry I used modge podge to add a thin layer to the area that the paper will be covering. I used a brayer to roll it out nice and flat, make sure to press down the edges really well. I sanded the edges of my blocks after I glued the paper down which made all my edges turn white. You can also use shadow ink to distress your edges. Next I added modge podge to the areas that I wanted glittered, sprinkle or press glitter on. You can use a spray sealer to help the glitter stay put. Embellish with wire and ribbon and your done, super cute!

 Large Present

 Medium Present

 Small Present

I guess this is good bye until December cute little wooden presents.