Invites For My Dad's 60th Birthday Bash in Ecuador!

Hi Peeps! I've got a wonderful invite to share with you. This year, in August, my dad turned 60 years old! As I always do, I wanted to celebrate this milestone with a birthday bash in Ecuador! I like doing this because we have tons of family in Ecuador and they are always up for a good time/ family reunion. What I love most about this is the fact that since I had told my brothers about this more than a year in advance, they were all able to go, along with their families. For example: my older brother brought his three kids and my middle brother brought his wife. Wow! Let me tell you. We had such a wonderful time on this trip. I held my dad's party at a once-working hotel across the street from my uncle's house. We fixed it up. We brought our own food. Got the cake and what a beauty of a cake let me tell you! All in all it was great fun as I knew it would be! 

For this party I decided to make the invites. Again, armed with my trusty Cardmaker magazine, I came up with my design. I made two types of invites, both tag-shaped and red since this is my dad's favorite color. Before I left I was running out of time so I recruited two of my friends to come along and help me finish this! If they hadn't come I wouldn't have finished! And even after they left I stayed up really late finishing everything! I barely slept before my morning flight! 

I think this is one of my favorites. It's so simple, but I feel like it's elegant at the same time! For the DP I scanned some Christmas paper and printed out many sheets because I wanted multiples of the same invite. I did the same with the other DP I used.  It was also Christmas paper but you really wouldn't have noticed. We used a stamp on the back for the date details since I knew I would be filling this info in later on. When I left for Ecuador I still didn't have a place booked! Anywho, like I said before. Everything went off without a hitch!

Enjoy!

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My dad the birthday boy.

My dad and my mom dancing.

 

The wonderful and tasty cake. It was fondant and the filling I think was pecan with something else. It was so good! 

Birthday Cards

So awhile ago one of my co-workers asked me to make a Birthday card for her bestie, Lauren. She wanted something cute and Tiffany Blue.  So I came up with two cards (506 and 507). When I brought them into work Trubs, my co-worker, liked them but they weren't quite what she wanted. She looked at my site and saw CARD 500 and looooooooooved it. Then she saw CARD 473 and looooooved that one too. She couldn't decide what she wanted. So after a long time pondering which of the two, we came up with the idea of meshing both cards.

Below you have my first two ideas. Then the one I came up with using Trubs input.

On a side note: I am now posting up my cards at my Shop Handmade store.

Go to http://Pentopaper.ShopHandmade.com to see!
 

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And the lucky winner!

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