Baby Shower Center Pieces

This is my most viewed post from my other blog!

A lady I work with asked if I would make the centerpieces for a baby shower she is hosting for a friend. Since I haven't posted in a very long time, I thought I would put the pictures up. The turned out AMAZING!! The flowers are actually pens.

Recipe:

Fake Flowers Roses-Hobby Lobby

Floral Tape- Walmart

Pens- Office Max or Sam's Club

Glass Rocks- Dollar Tree or Hobby Lobby

Vases- JoAnn's

Pink Ribbon with Wire-Walmart

Baby Shower Signs- Wild Card Cricut Cartridge

Stickles-Michael's

Red Sticky Strip- Michael's

Once you have found your flowers, hopefully you got them on sale or used a coupon, cut the flowers off the bunch using wire cutters. Make sure you have at least 3 inches of stem, so that you can attach the flowers to the pens with ease. Cut off any extra baby's breath or small flowers, so that you may use it for added decoration (the small white flower are just placed in the vase to help fill out space).

Use the floral tape and wind it around the pen attaching the flowers to the top. Make as many as you would like. I made 12 per vase, so that each person at the table(8) could take one pen and the person who won the centerpiece could have 5 pens in their vase for their desk at work or home.

Add the decorative rocks at the bottom of each vase.

Add ribbon using red sticky strip.

Add decorative sign.

My First Official Crop...Well at Least My First Crop not at Archivers

The Achievers in my area closed a few years ago.  My BFF and I would love to go there, but with 3 kids each now it impossible for us to find the time to plan a crop.  Fortunately, my oldest son's school had their annual scrapbooking crop.  I did not go last year (sad face).  But this year we did everything to allow for me to be able to attend.  Here was my set up and a few things that I worked on.

 Next year, I will be more prepared.  I will not bring everything I own.  Hee!  Hee!

I saw these adorable turkeys on Pinterest (of course). If you would like to see the posts that inspired me...Click here or  Here.  I adapted them to suit my needs. They were easy to make once I figured out what I wanted to do, but they take a lot more time than I had budgeted for the crop.  So I only made enough for my family coming on Thursday.  I did not have time to make any for my son's class.   We will see how the week goes, but it is not looking good.  

 
Then I saw a baby card On this site that I wanted to make as an embellishment for a scrapbook page.  I love how it turned out.  I post the finished page soon.