Hi everyone, Vivian here with today's challenge. About a month ago, when I started to plan for my January challenge blog post, I realized I'd been assigned my son's 10th birthday. Immediately, I knew that the challenge would have to be a happy birthday challenge! Little did I know then that one of the new lines released at the CHA (Craft & Hobby Association) trade show this week would be Cakewalk!
Today's happy birthday challenge can be interpreted any way you want as long as you create something birthday-related.
You could, as Stacey did, create a layout about a birthday:
I love how Stacey combined so many of the fun and colorful Cakewalk patterns and products on this layout documenting her Grandma Ruby's 87th birthday! I especially love the fun banners at the top, which Stacey handcut from one of the patterned papers and further embellished with staples, baker's twine, and some of the new Cakewalk brads:
Another take on this challenge could be to build up your stash of birthday cards and tags so that you're ready at a moment's notice. I made this quick tag with the Cakewalk line:
(If you missed yesterday's blog post here, be sure to check it out for more ideas using Cakewalk.)
A third way to take on this challenge is to create birthday party decorations. I am usually terrible about birthday party decorations. I'm so busy planning for the party itself that decorations usually consist of a bouquet of helium balloons picked up at the last minute from my local grocery store. I decided this year to get ahead and do something a little more unique for my son's birthday party. I had never thought of the new 9 to 5 line as birthday-ish, but my now-10-year-old was really drawn to the colors and patterns and wanted me to use 9 to 5 for his party decorations. I made pinwheels and a banner with some of the more basic patterns from 9 to 5:
So, get out there and create something birthday-ish! We'd love to see your birthday creations, so be sure to share anything you create in our October Afternoon Flickr gallery.
Happy (birthday) creating!