Justin Bieber Party

My daughter has "Bieber Fever" like most girls her age.  So for her 9th birthday, we had a Justin Bieber theme party.  Don't think you will ever have a Justin Bieber party?  Never Say Never!!

We made our own invitations on the computer that looked like concert tickets:

Typical party paper goods:

Since the party guests are getting older, I thought I could go with a smaller goody bag and give them things can really use (or eat).  Pen, pencil, elastic hair bands, a ring, candy, and a Justin Bieber sticker....all in purple!

We had sour patch kids candy - it's Justin's favorite.  We also had some chocolate candy and cupcakes.  The chocolate microphones are made with candy molds and pretzel sticks.  We added purple food coloring to the cupcake batter, used purple cupcake liners, and made toppers with purple paper. Add a little sparkle to the cupcakes with some edible disco dust.

I made the cake using fondant and an edible image that I bought at my local cake store. I made the microphone with chocolate fondant.

Bunco!

It's Bunco night with my girl friends, so I made us a quick batch of cookies.  The edges aren't perfect, but they are still cute.

Shark Snacks

Here are some fun shark snacks that you can use for your next pool party or summer celebration. I made these for a swim team event.   

Shark sugar cookies with royal icing.

White chocolate shark suckers made with candy molds. The eyes are royal icing (also on the cookies).

Shark fin cup cup cakes.

The fins are made from fondant.  I used the top portion of a Halloween moon cookie cutter for the fin shape.

Fun in the Sun

I want to share some cards with you that are all about fun in the sun.  My friend Patty designed them and I made them at one of her card classes.  She designed these cards using punches that I bet a lot of you already have. (A big congratulations to Patty....she just became Grandmother for the first time.)

This little guy is made with oval punches for the body and beak, half of a butterfly for his head, and his feet are part of a snow flake punch.

This sun burned dude is a bunch of circles and ovals with corner punches for this arms.  The sun is a scallop and circle.

 
Here we have circle, scallop, and cloud punches.  The flip flops are made with the dog tag punch, oval punch, and flower punch.

This is a fun one made using circles of all sizes.  The tentacles are just cut up strips of paper.

Summer Fun card

Do you ever feel like you need to use some of your older scrapbook supplies instead of buying new stuff?  Here is a card you can easily make using the older stuff you might still be hanging on to.  Any card stock will work and I also used some left over polka dot velum.  Dust off your Quikutz Squeeze hand tool and dies to make the ice cream shapes.  The word "summer" is a Quikutz rub-on and  "fun" is made with the old Summer set of  Making Memories  foam stamps.

Tom Sawyer Island

We are back from our Walt Disney World  vacation and we really had a great time.  This time while we were in the Magic Kingdom, we decided to hunt for the hidden paint brushes on Tom Sawyer Island.  If you haven't heard about the paint brushes, you aren't the only one. When in the Magic Kingdom, many people overlook taking the raft to Tom Sawyer Island....and some people go to the island without knowing that paintbrushes are hidden daily by Disney cast members. If you and your party find one of these paintbrushes, you can return it to a Disney employee in exchange for a Fastpass for your entire group. Only one paint brush per family. The first time we tried, we came back empty handed.  The second time we went earlier to catch the first raft to the island and we found a paint brush!  (The island doesn't open until 10:00am.)  Our raft driver said there start out with about 8 paint brushes and rehide some when the are found, but the best way to find them is to come early.

We found our brush hidden in this bush.  We saw it because of the white paint.

Here we both are with the brush.

I have seen pictures of brushes that other people found and they had instructions printed on the brush.  We didn't have anything printed on our brush and neither did anyone else that we saw finding them that day.

My daughter trading the paint brush for fast passes.

We got fast passes for Thunder Mountain and Splash Mountain.  My husband and son missed out because they were over at Animal Kingdom, but they would have gotten them too if they had been with us.

Disney Scrapbooking

I'm packing for our Walt Disney World vacation.  I am so excited!!  In honor of our upcoming trip, I thought I would share some Disney scrapbook LO's.

Small World is an 8x8 LO, but the other 2 are 12x12.