Spa Party Fun!

It's party time....oh, it's party time!

My Silhouette blogging buddies and I are at it again with this month's challenge -- Parties!  Not just birthday parties, any kind of party.  If you want to celebrate it, then it qualifies for this month's challenge.  18 participating bloggers let their imaginations run wild with decor, invitations, favors...you name it, we've done it.  The creativity is endless.

But before you get to the clickable link {below} to see the other projects, check out the great Spa Party birthday celebration my best customer threw for her sweet daughter's 7th birthday.

The party was held at a local spa party salon.  My customer loves to add a few extra special touches to her parties so she asked me to recreate a backdrop she found online.

Using foam core board as a base, I covered it with fabric and hot glued the flowers on top.  Each flower was made with cardstock paper {three 12x12 sheets per flower}, curled using a spatula {yup, a kitchen utensil} and glued together.  Lots of work, but worth it in the end, it really turned out beautiful!

Next on the list -- a birthday banner to cover a very large wall in the salon.  I found coordinating black and white stripe scrapbook paper and cut them into banners.  I then cut out the words in hot pink, lime green and lavender. Cute, right!?!

I made a few smaller flowers to create the party table centerpiece.  I really nailed the colors perfectly {smile}!

Birthday bundt cake from a local bakery.

Monogrammed cookies...yummy!

The girls wearing their party gift {personalized spa robes} and sitting at the nail bar.  They were so excited!

What fun!  Thanks so much to the Glenn family for allowing me to assist them in making this party so great and for taking all of the pictures as well.

Click your way to more inspiration below

My Silhouette Challenge buddies and I are all sharing projects on our blogs today, so peruse the projects below for a wealth of Silhouette inspiration!


1. Two Purple Couches // 2. Practically Functional // 3. Crafty Bonds // 4. Dragonfly & Lily Pads // 5. From Whine to Whine // 6. Simply Kelly Designs // 7. unOriginal Mom // 8. MamaSonshine // 9. Get Silvered // 10. Made in a Day // 11. Weekend Craft // 12. Little Blue's Room // 13. The Stamp Doc // 14. The Thinking Closet // 15. Cupcakes&Crowbars // 16. Where The Smiles Have Been // 17. DIYJustCuz // 18. My Paper Craze

All Wrapped Up

When you think of cheerleading, what does that bring to mind?  Cute little girls in their uniforms performing massive acrobatic stunts and perfectly choreographed routines?  Yup, that's what I envision too.  But I've recently learned that there is a place for a craft lady like me in cheerleading...behind the scenes.

My fav customer's daughter is a part of a local cheer squad and they have kept me quite busy this cheer season.  Originally the plan was to blog each thing I did for them, but let's be honest here -- most of my crafts happen after 9pm so the idea of getting them completed on time, staging and taking pictures AND getting up a blog post was way too overwhelming for me.  So I decided to do one post with pics of the items I did.  *Warning:  Poor picture quality*  Late night crafting means I forgo the Canon for my phone camera and pray for a good result (don't judge).

Here is my season with the Cheer Jewels all wrapped up!

These are the awesome cupcake toppers.  After each competition (monthly), the girls receive a 'cheer' inspired goody bag.  A couple of the bags included cupcakes topped with these personalized toppers.

February was all about "love".  Red, pink and white M&M's in candy containers that I purchased from Pick Your Plum were included in the bags.

Year end girls' gift - a framed group picture.  I hand painted each one with the squad's colors and a megaphone then used vinyl for the name.

The end of season card made for the two coaches -- each girl signed {forgot to take a pic...again, don't judge}

The ultimate coaches gift - a spa basket which included a luxury spa gift card to a well known local spa, monogrammed spa robes and several goodies from The Body Shop.  The assistant coaches (two high school students) received a mani/pedi at another local establishment.  Oooh-la-la!

What fun it's been this season helping out behind the scenes for the Cheer Jewels.  Now it's time to sit back and relax...that is until next season!


UPDATE:  My customer sent me a forwarded messages from the head coach.  Here is what she had to say  "I'm not sure who all helped put the basket together so please pass along to whomever.  I just wanted to say how awesome the whole basket was.  The Cheer Jewel card is adorable!!  The robe is my new best friend and the lotions and shower gels are heavenly!  Thanks again for all the time and work it took to put that together.  Very nice!!!"

And this is why I do what I do!  This note has had me smiling for over an hour.  I'm so happy that they are happy -- SCORE!