Wednesday, July 6, 2011

You are Invited...

If I ever had to find a sparkle of hope and beauty I would have to say I found it in this heel. Plus for some reason sparkly glitter and bows make me smile almost as much as my carnival invitations.

That is right they are antonishingly complete and just in the nic of time. With the help from the love of my life, I managed to finish all 21 confetti popper invitations today. By the way did I tell you that I came across this fabulous idea from Oh Happy Day and they have a tutorial to help us crafters along the way. I, however, made a couple changes of my own to their tutorial which were as follows:
  1. In Step 2 instead of disassembling the confetti popper I had my <insert title here> help me with this one and he pushed the spring back down and I turned the bottom to reset it. Which  means NO disassembling and less time fighting with the popper. Remember think smarter not harder.
  2. In Step 3 I opted to use the top of the confetti popper instead of creating my own (although I did later create my own, but more on that later) since it had a cool firework explosion graphic.
  3. In Step 4 istead of using their template and buying sticker paper I traced the label on decorative paper and sealed the ends with mod podge. However, first I sealed the canister with a thin sticker strip before I added the decorative paper since the paper was the same size as the canister.
  4. The other additional steps I took was (1) I cut my shapes into triangles so they formed a more appropriate circus flag shape and (2) when all was complete I added an additional circle upon the top of the canister sadly covering the firework explosion graphic as a name tag since we were hand delivering them all.
If you asked me I would have to say they came out looking superb. What do you think?






For your own glitter smile you can get the heels here Kate Spade New York Women's Charm Sandal and be sure to ask me any questions or problems you may run into during this project. I had fun making them and thought they fit perfectly with our carnival themed birthday party

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