Baby Shower Time - Part 2

Wow, Still can't believe I needed two posts to get everything I've done for this baby shower on here. Today I'm going to quickly show you the things I have done for games & decorations.

Games First.... my friend said she liked the "cheesey" Shower games, however, told me not to go over board. So I kept it simple with a Memory Game (a tray loaded with a number of baby items), the classic Clothes Pin game (where if you say Baby someone gets to steal your pin),

and a Diaper Pull Game (I cut mini diapers, everyone chose one as if they were choose a game card, and they opened their Diapers, who ever had the "dirty" one won the game. See, all very simple games, but they kept the activities and conversation going.
For Decorations, we also kept it very simple, my firend and I are BOTH very frugal, and find some things (such as balloons, flowers etc.) to be not neccisarily a 'waste' of money, but that money could be better spent elsewhere.

So I made her a Diaper cake that doubled as a decorative center piece. This was really fun to make, but can be very costly if you don't plan it out.

I have seen some VERY extensive Diaper cakes be made and all I can say is WOW! What little I put on this one cost a fortune! but I think it still turned out really cute, and for my first Diaper cake, it was fun learning how to make it.
Finally, on the other side of the room, to spread the theme around I used baby sleepers and onsies in the colors of the baby's room and decor and hung them on a line as a sort of banner.

Over all I was happy, didn't go over board with the spending, the guests ha d a great time and Mommy to Be was happy too.

Happy Craftin'!

~Jenn

Baby Shower Time!!! Part 1

Yay! Finally I have a Baby Shower to plan!!!! This is all new to me, I'm so used to being the one to have the kids, it's actually quite exciting for me to be on the other side of waiting for a new baby. :)

My best friend is having a baby, and she has chosen a color pallet of Chocolate Brown, Bright Greens (more of the lime family), and random blue things for a slight color change here and there (yes it's a Boy!!), and she also like frogs, so there are frogs all in the room, and on some of the gifts I bought too.

So here is the Invitation I came up with for the Shower. For the most part we used a group in facebook to invite people to the event, but for those not on there, and that wanted the keepsake invite this is what they got. I used a Sweet Shoppe Designs digital scrap kit to make this, and just sent it off to a photo lab to be printed in a large quantity.

I made for her a Baby Block Sign to go in the babies room in the colors she chose.

I also altered this wooden basket to match (when I found it at a thrift store it was really scratched up, white and with a lot of purple flowers painted on it, so it got quite a transformation). In the basket I put the brand of soaps, lotions and creams she wants to use on baby.

I also made her a set of framed photos (again that match the items above), to put on the wall in the babies room. 4 of them in total.... with a photo of each of my boys on their first day, and the 4th is for a photo of her little guy once he gets here.

Then I made this card to go in one of the bags with her gifts (there were more, lots of cute blankets, sheets, and that rag quilt I showed you in an earlier post). Anyway, I used the scrap pieces of paper from the above projects to make this card, so again, matchy matchy.

So I can say I'm excited all I want, but I think with all the spoils posted it really shows. There will be more to share, so stay tuned.

Happy Scrappin'

~Jenn