Decorate to Celebrate Month Long Birthday Party - Guest Designer

Hello and welcome to this fabulous Wednesday! I am doing a guest designer spot for the Decorate to Celebrate Month Long Birthday Party for Rhonda and Amy!
In case you missed it...  This month Rhonda and Amy are CELEBRATING their birthday's ALL MONTH LONG (so you'll have ALL month to enter your projects at Decorate to Celebrate!!)...  Also for THIS month (and this month ONLY), they are opening up the challenge to ANY project (yes, this means you can enter a card or a layout too!!)...  Because of this, they have limited the number of entries to a MAXIMUM of THREE -- you can enter up to THREE projects this month for your chance at the Birthday Presents!!  A little birdie told me that there would be one of Rhonda's minis, one of Amy's explosion boxes, and several other FUN prizes thrown into the mix!!  I am sure you have seen Amy's explosion boxes and Rhonda's minis! They are simply fabulous and you would be SOOOO lucky to have one! So get working on those projects for YOUR chance to WIN!!

Okay so I am going to show off a little work I did for my son's 5th birthday! We decided to do a Batman theme. I purchased the Batman Brave and the Bold Cricut Cartridge and had fun creating... I am a little bummed because I was so busy occupying 20 kids that I did not get more pictures so I will show you what I have! :)

These were the birthday invitations. Not sure if you can read it well or not but it says

The Riddler is tricky don't make a mistake.

He has stolen the candles off

Noah's birthday cake.

But you can help Batman recover

the candles by answering

this riddle I know you can handle;

How old will Noah be when his birthday arrives?

Just think of a number that rhymes with "dive"

The answer is ______

Help Batman and Noah find his birthday candles

and then lists all the birthday information.

The backdrop behind the vellum is a city outline with a bat signal... pictured here :)

I made this back drop of what was suppose to be Gotham City... I tried hard but it did not come out the way I wanted and I used a lot of spray paint... I did not think it would take that much but wow I used about 9 cans on this small little section!

Okay so this is a little hard to see but this was a game called stomp out the villains... If you look close you can see the little one on the right side of this picture stomping a silver balloon. I took balloons and filled some with candy and I left some empty. When we brought out the balloons we explained to the kids they were to stomp out the villains and they would get a prize! I had taped some pictures of Batman and Robin on some of the balloons and villains such as the Joker, Riddler, Mr Freeze and The Penguin on others. The kids had so much fun stomping the villains!

For a little down time we played a game of Bat, Bat, Joker (much like a game of duck, duck, goose!)

We even had a surprise visit from BATMAN himself! My sons face was just priceless when he showed up.

No because the information said that the Riddler had taken the candles off my son's birthday cake Batman was there to help. I had placed green cards with question marks on various places outside (like the pool, trash cans, the jungle gym) and gave them riddles as to where they could find the birthday candles! They had so much fun hunting for the candles!

Here are some of the kiddos from the party with Batman... some were to hungry to take a picture with Batman and they just ran off to eat!

Oh this is another picture from the villain stop. We also played a game of Mr. Freeze Dance where we would play music and when the music stopped they had to freeze!

Here is Noah's birthday cake. I wish I had gotten more pictures of the food. I had themes for most of it. I had Cat Claws (buggles), Posion Ivy punch (green punch) Penguins Chips and Dip (Served these is a top hat upside down), Bat Pops (cake pops) Alfred's Gourmet hamburgers... oh there was more. I had also purchased yellow plastic ware and wrapped it in a black napkin and made my own napkin rings with a yellow piece of paper and a bat on them... OH HOW I WISH I WOULD HAVE HIRED A PHOTOGRAPHER ;)

Ha! Well I hope you enjoyed the Batman Birthday! Be sure to hop over to Decorate to Celebrate and check out their month long celebrations if you have not done so already! Enjoy your day everyone!

Decorate to Celebrate Birthday Hop

Happy Wednesday everyone! The week is half over! Today I have been asked to be a Guest Designer for Decorate to Celebrate.  Amy and Rhonda are celebrating their birthday's all throughout the month of November! The fun thing about it... After the hop has ended, you'll be able to create a "Birthday Party" themed project and LINK IT UP at the Decorate To Celebrate challenge blog!! Usually, your entry needs to be a decoration or party supply, but THIS MONTH (and this month only), you can link up ANY Birthday Party project (cards, layouts, 3D Art...). They will be giving out some Birthday Presents all month long, but you'll need to enter to WIN!! You'll find more details on the challenge blog.
Rhonda and Amy have assembled great line up for this Birthday Party Adventure through Bloggie-Land... Along the way, you'll find some incredibly creative projects to celebrate Rhonda and Amy... So be sure to check out the Decorate to Celebrate Blog to follow all the amazing projects.

Okay so I really really hope Rhonda does not take offense to this because it is intended to be fun. (I am sure she won't as she seems to have a good sense of humor, and honestly I did not know you were going to be 50 until I read it, you don't look a day over 29 ;).) While I was trying to come up with a project I was looking at my stamps from  Kristal Andrew Design and got the idea of the Ol' Bag and went with a fifty year old birthday party. It was kind of fun coming up with this and different things you can do with it. So here are my projects....

I made up a few of these bags to put candy in (it would be cute to do those candies popular when the person who is turning 50 was younger) The letters are cut using the Mickey Font cartridge.

This is the invitation to the party. I took a bag and cut half off the top off. I used my Mickey Font Cricut Cartridge for the lettering

For the invitation I took brown paper and place a pink polk-a-dot paper over it. Then I printed out the invitation wording on velum. I took a hole punch, made holes and added the ribbon to the top.

Using the Mickey Font Cartridge I made the number 50 and traced it on to the bag and cut it out.

I then made this into a luminary. Sorry it does not look better... they are cuter in real life then the picture.

For gift bags I took a bag and added the saying "From one ol' bag to another" from Kristal Andrew Designs Fashionable Friends stamp set.... the word thanks is also from this set also but I had to take it from a full saying and just ink the Thanks part of it.

So there you have it. There are my decorations for the 50 year old ol' bag birthday party! :) There is so much more you could do with this theme just using paper bags... Lots of fun! A Very Happy Birthday to Amy and Rhonda and thank you for allowing me to be a guest designer during your fun celebration!

I hope you enjoyed the projects! Thanks for stopping!! Now jump over to Decorate to Celebrate to find the rest of the projects. Be sure to enter for your chance to win one of the cool birthday presents they are handing out!!

PS Be sure to check out Kristal Andrew Design for her amazing stamps. They are all made right here and a $1 from each set sold goes to a charity that Kristal has personally researched. They are amazing stamps and extremely versatile! :)