My very own Show & Tell

Late yesterday afternoon I kind of hit the panic button when I realized that I had not even sent out Sunshine's birthday party invitations and I'm planning on having her party is in only 8 days! Yikes!! Sunshine wants a "Fancy Nancy" party so I knew I wanted some type of "fancy" invitation. I didn't have time to make it to Hobby Lobby, so I decided to raid the craft closet.

That's when the creative juices started flowing!

I had a blast making these "fantabulous" (as Fancy Nancy might say) purse invitations. Because my supplies were limited to what I could find in the house, all of the invitations are a little different. But making them all a little different actually made the process a little more fun. Towards the end, I even ran out of "cute" colored paper and had to make a black one!

I had boas left over from the Easter buckets that I made this past spring. I used the boas as purse handles, and when I ran out of boas, I used ribbon. I originally started off with regular sized card stock paper. But when I tri-folded it to resemble a purse, the entire thing was just too small. Then I remembered that I had 4 pieces of poster board under the guest room bed. I cut each piece of poster board into four pieces, and each of those pieces was used as an individual purse/invitation.

I had lots of colorful scrapbook paper that I cut and mounted to the front of the purses. When I ran out of paper, I used stickers (see butterfly purse).

I attached the boas to the back of the invitation with hot glue. I tri-folded the poster board then cut each side at an angle.

I ran off the information on regular white paper with purple ink and mounted it to the inside of the purse/invitation. I secured them close with stickers. When I ran out of stickers, I used a flower punch to make the closure. I found a few glittery pop-pom balls that I glues to the center of the flowers to add just a little more fun.

Sunshine is with my parents so she hasn't seen them. But I think she'll approve!

Happy Weekend!