Party Paperminties - Cute as a Button Party

This Cute as a Button Party was in early August.  Birthday girl Kristiana turned two and her mommy and big sister thought it best to throw her a button-themed party since she loved fiddling with buttons!  Really clever theme!

Mommy was very hands-on with the preparations.  When I met up with her to discuss the party details, she had already finished decorating brown paper bags with circle cutouts and making paper pinwheels as centerpieces!  It made my work a lot easier.  All I had to do was add buttons to the pinwheels and paper bags, make table confetti and the large wall decor.  As an add-on, I decoupaged paper buttons on a letter K that mommy saved from Kristiana's Baptismal celebration.

Here are some pre-party photos and photos of the party venue on party day!

Brown paper bags made by Kristiana's mommy with the help of her loving Yaya Amy!

Paperminties paper buttons on the circles of the brown paper bags!

Pinwheels by mommy made from scrapbooking paper!

Paperminties paper buttons added onto the pinwheels.

Table Centerpiece pinwheels with paper buttons and paper button confetti on the table.

Table Centerpiece pinwheels with paper buttons and paper button confetti on the table.

Table confetti - Two-layered paper buttons from cutout circles.  I punched the four holes in the middle with a one-hole ticket puncher!  Labor intensive but results were satisfying.

Decoupaging Letter "K" with the paper buttons.

The finished product!

Large Wall Decor by paperminties!  How many buttons do you see?! = )

Brown paper bags with the thank you tags made by Kristiana's mommy! = )

Buttoned up Letter 'K' waiting for the cupcakes and cake!

Buttoned up letter 'K' with cupcakes and cake.

Posting more August projects soon!  Do watch out for them! = )

Easter Craft Fun

We had so much fun during a family crafternoon session the day before Easter.  We had  many craft projects lined up, too bad there was so little time to do all.  

Just some of the activities we thought up in preparation for the Easter breakfast celebration:

1. Rabbit masks for the kids made out of foam sheets

2. Egg decorating

3. Mini paper baskets

4. Brown paper baskets

Before we knew it, the sun was setting and I only took a night shot of the dining room centerpiece.  Hope you enjoy them nevertheless.  

Rabbit masks made out of foam sheets. Copied this from an art project done in school!

 I stuck double-sided tape on the back side.  It works better than glue.

 I used a hole puncher to make tiny holes to put the garter in place.

Brown paper bag baskets.  Got this idea from the Martha Stewart website.  Check out Paper Basket Bouquet.  Martha's basket looks better of course!

Decorated the basket with foam stickers.

The other paper baskets were made out of pastel board paper. 

My pink and purple paper basket. (Behind it are the eggs waiting to be dyed!)

My mother-in-law studied the stencil and made a larger version of the paper basket.  Below is a photo of her creation.  Really cute.

I made out a stencil for efficiency.  Stencil for the mini paper baskets.

Voila!  The nightshot of the stuffed bunny centerpiece purchased by my mother-in-law surrounded by our little arts and crafts projects...I love the yellow paper basket my sister-in-law made.  Too bad this is my only photo of it...The table runner is made out of yellow-green felt paper.  My sister-in-law scattered foam stickers on the felt paper to make the effect of strewn flowers and insects on grass.  Lovely.