Birthday Cards

We love creating cards for our family and friends. Crafting cards has always been something that we enjoy doing because we think it add a special little touch for the person for a few reasons:
1) Its always really nice to get a handmade card instead of just a store bought card
2) you can add your own personality/ flare . . . or the recipient  personality & flair to the card! and
3) You'll stand out! Giving our personalized cards always makes a person stand out since its not a common occurance

What are your reasons?

Recently we decided that we needed to have a stockpile of cards because we don't always have the time to make cards since we work full time. Card making for us gets time consuming because we love to incorporate our own personal jokes and such. This time we decided to use carious card stock embellishments to make simple cards for last minute situations.

Baby blue "Ready, Set, blow" birthday card. Candle and birthday blower embellishments. All made from card stock paper.

Canary yellow Happy birthday x3 card. 2 gift embellishments. All made of card stock paper

Pastel green Make a Wish card. 1 tiered cake embellishment. All card stock.

Royal blue Happy Birthday card with letter accents. Balloon embellishment. All card stock paper.

Green Happy Birthday card. 1 candle cake and birthday hat embellishment. All card stock paper.

Green "Be Merry" xmas card. Handmade snowman embellishment. Card stock and patterned paper

Pastel green Thank you card. Butterflies and cage embellishments. All card stock paper

Pink Thank You card. Various flower embellishments. All card stock paper.

All these cards are blank inside & comes with matching envelopes.

Visit our Etsy Store for various fonts & embellishments that we use to decorate our cards!

Mickey Mouse

This is a long over due blog that I've been wanting to showcase.  My godson turned ONE back in March and I was the honorary party planner.  He loves Mickey Mouse and that was his birthday theme.  So I was more than happy to make him his banner.   It turned out really cute!  Not only that, but I also made "sour cream" containers with Mickey Mouse paper as his party favors.  They were filled with delicious candies!  What kids and adults don't love candies at a birthday party, right?  All in all, these two items where my favorite DIY for this birthday party.

Shell & Rope Necklace

So being from "The Beach" it is only fitting that when someone graduates, we will give something beachy. None of that boring lei flower mumbo jumbo! I use to work at a local high school that was heavily populated with Pacific Islanders and Polynesians. To me, their handmade crafts are absolutely gorgeous! Being from the beach, why wouldn't I love such things? Look at the earthy colors and materials. All around natural! I LOVE IT!

 

One day towards graduation, I was given the opportunity to sit in and watch how they made a rope and shell necklace to give out to the graduating seniors that were in their program.

What i LOVE best about this is the versatility in the necklace/ lei. There are so much more than just to give out during a graduation ceremony. A beach theme party instead of those plastic flower leis (and it can double as a party favor), a birthday party, bridal shower, ANYTHING! Also, I thought about using this as a border and to hang tiki charm letters from the rope. I just haven't been given an opportunity to do so.

I recently made this for a graduation because like I said before, I live near the beach., lets do a beach theme!

The natural shell and rope color really looks great against the bright, vibrant colors of the flowers. Also, it wont die or wilt! So this necklace/ lei can be kept as a wonderful graduation memory!

Check out our SimpleeNou Etsy Store  for more crafts. Or ask us how we can help make your next celebration a hit!

Felt Flower Pens

Hey everyone!!

So we started to dabble in other crafts besides working with paper. I (baby sister) made felt flower pens for a FLOWER SHOWER! A friend of ours referred this customer to us asking if we can help her make fun statement items for the bridal shower that she was throwing for her sister. We suggested FLOWER PENS because they were great to use for games that she had planned, and they served double as a party favor!

We were asked if we could use the fatter blue pens (customer provided these, since we use the BIC pen) because her sister likes these pens in particular.

We like to make sure that the grip on the pen was not covered because the grip is there for a reason! So why would we cover it . . . we like the purpose of the grip, so we leave it so that it can serve its purpose!

Here is a wonderful shot of the pens that the customer let us use, she placed it in a couple of jars on the table to be the token centerpieces (HEY! a 3rd purpose!) and to be within arms reach to all the guests.

We use various colors so that her guests can pick the colors that they want to take home with them. Check out our Etsy Store to see a listing of the colors that we can make. Or if there is a color that you want, let us know! and we can work with our vendor to see if we can get it! Just imagine what wonderful memories/ photos you will have with these pens in everyone's hand! We can do bulk orders!

Customized Banner

Recently, we were asked to create a banner for a couple who were getting married. The wedding colors itself were silver & yellow, and they were an Asian couple, so we went for the yellow & red, since they are traditional "lucky" colors.

The specifications that were given to us were to "please don't make a rectangular banner." We obliged.  And we were told "please keep in mind it will be for a car" . . . we remembered this . . . and this was the outcome:

 

We used these customized alphabet letters in 9inches and made 10-11inch ovals to make the backing for the letters. We were also asked if we can laminate the banner, which we said we could . . . and we did!

Both, we and the couple, loved it and doesn't it look wonderful on the car!

Color Pallet: Yellow, Green, Pink

Centerpieces & Table Numbers

So there has been so much crafting that has been going on! We had a wedding that we were helping out with, and I (baby sister) must say, I am pooped! A local customer of ours (found us through Facebook, THANK YOU FACEBOOK & our friends for free advertising for us) asked if we can do 2 major things for her, and of course I said YES!

You can see how they incorporated our paper flowers into a stunning (and show stoppin') centerpiece!

The flowers were a local customized order, we were asked to make 1000 (WHOA!) red flowers. We do sell in smaller packs (35) to be found here on our Etsy. 1-1.5 inch in diameter & made of crepe paper.


We were also asked if we can make customized table numbers to attach to this fabulous centerpiece. Of course we said YES! We love this stuff. Our wonderful customer sent us their pictures and we created this:

The pictures were 4X6. They saw this posting and asked if we can do the numbers with the font/ text. We could and we did. I wanted to keep in the theme of red & gold, and that is what came of it. Our customer our love the simplicity yet personalization of the table number. We love how this came out, comment us or let us know if we can help with making these table numbers for your next event!

I was promised a picture of what the outcome was as a whole. So as soon as it comes in, I'll definitely post!

UPDATE JULY 30, 2011:

Hello all!! We go the picture of how the centerpieces look! Check it out! So amazing & they popped out/ stood out so much! It looks gorgeous!