Welcome to the October Fancy Friday blog hop! Today the team has been challenged to share a technique idea. This month our son turned 6 and we threw him an army themed party. I was so so so excited when I created a way to stamp a camouflage pattern on card stock! If you have a hunter in your family or have an army obsessed son in your life you are going to love this!
Every party starts with an invitation ... this is what I created! Look at this camo!!! I used the Work of Art Stamp Set and stamped over a piece of Very Vanilla Cardstock in three green Stampin' Up! colors.
There are a lot of fun details with this birthday party! It was a blast to put together for Ariono. We had 8 little boys come over in the afternoon for 2 and a half (long) hours of games and treats. We had Nerf guns and over 100 bullets flying around.
Behind the cake table I created these banners. They were quick to create! I stamped the background stamp from the
You've Got this Stamp Set with
Always Artichoke Classic Ink on
Old Olive Cardstock,
Garden Green Cardstock and
Always Artichoke Cardstock. I actually think that is harder to say than to create the banner! Each banner flag is 4-1/2" x 5-1/2". I used scissors to cut a flag tail on the pieces ... not tools or tricks there, I eyeballed it. I used my sewing machine to sew the banners together.
The smaller banner is
Crumb Cake Cardstock rectangles. They just happened to be scraps left over from an event in my scrap pile.
Loot bags. Oh, those loot bags. Are they not just getting out of control??? I confess, I may put too much effort into loot bags. These brown paper bags had a candy grenade, candy Popeye cigarettes, a large army man figure and a parachute man. I found plastic dog tags at the party store and had them hanging down the front of the bag.
The birthday boy needed a perfect birthday card for the occasion ...
When things got a little bit too crazy we put away the guns and played tug of war, did an obstacle course and played wounded soldier. To play wounded soldier, you divide into two teams. Each team chooses a wounded soldier and they lay on a bath towel. The teams race to wrap up the soldiers wounds and then pull him to home base by dragging the bath towel. This was a party highlight. Each kid had to have a turn being the wounded soldier!
After the school friends left we invited our family and friends over for dinner and cake. It was a long day but so worth it. Ariono was full of love and joy (and sugar) when he went to bed that night. I asked him what his favorite part of the day was, he said that it was having all of the people over. That is what it is all about. Being with the people you love to celebrate someone you love.
I hope you enjoyed the look into our army party for Ariono! Don't forget that we are on the Fancy Friday Blog Hop! Up next is
Marisa Gunn.
Click over to Marissa and she what technique she as in store for you today!
Have a creative day!
