Honeycomb Strawberries

This weekend we are having a Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party for my niece Sophia.

When I found these I knew immediately I could turn them into strawberries.


I de-strung them from the white ribbon and cut the lacy edges off (leaving the hole-punched top section).

I dotted the folded up edges with black Sharpie for seeds

opened up, the seeds are faint but I think it takes the heart look away. 

We had extra stems from another Strawberry project and they seemed to work well at the top. I cut a little slit in the middle and slid the hole punched section through.

I had to fold the curling ribbon to fit it through the hole.

All done. 

we opted to string them individually so we had more flexibility on where to hang them rather than a garland as they came. Planning this party we are realizing how easily a heart turns into a strawberry!

cost: 3.75 for a string of 7 hearts
we got 2 strings

These will look great hanging all over the back yard at the Strawberry Shortcake Party. 

Strawberry Shortcake Party Banner

I made this for the up-coming Strawberry Shortcake Birthday Party for my sweet niece Sophia. I love how the light and dark pinks work so well with the lime green and white stripes, (like Strawberry Shortcake's pants/hat ribbon. Also love how the polka dots sort of look like seeds on triangle shaped strawberries. 

The letters were cut from scrapbook cardstock using the Plantain Schoolbook Cricut Cartridge on Roly Poly at 3 inches. The strawberry stem is the flower in 4-5 inches (I forget) on the same cartridge folded over the top. 

I could have made the pennants but I found them for sale here (and I was ordering other stuff and got free shipping) for less than if I bought paper and cut them myself. I bought 3 different colors, hot pink, candy pink and lime. They came strung on fishing line (3 separate banners) , but I wanted to alternate colors, so we cut them off of the fishing line and hole punched the corners. 

all the pennants were strung on green curling ribbon, which was curled once it was hung on the wall. 

Depending on where we hang the banner, I may split the bottom line in to 2, having a strawberry pennant at the beginning and end of "birthday", I have one dark pink triangle left over. 

I considered cutting letters for the other side, in case we wanted to hang in the window or from the ceiling above the kitchen island, but we will see how much paper/time I have left over first. Because it isn't over the top specifically Strawberry Shortcake, the banner could be re-used for another party, a baby shower or something, the letters should come off easily, or we could use the back. (ETA I ended up using the extra pennant to make a "7th"  at the end of "sweet" and hung in the 2 rows shown.) 

Cost Breakdown

banners: 3x$3, 

3 sheets of cardstock from my stash (calling that free)

a glue stick I had (calling this free)

green curling ribbon (included in other craft budget)

26-27 triangle banner, about 15 feet for ~$9

There will definitely be more Strawberry Shortcake posts to come! 

Ladybug Birthday

Ellie's 1st Birthday

The welcome and goodie bag table

Guest book alternative. 

The dots will be used in scrapbook of the party.

 Simple snacks

The Cupcakes

 This is a CupcakeTree that I have used 7 times so far. It is awesome, super easy to decorate and folds flat in a thin box.

We had strawberry cheesecake, german chocolate, white (with red sprinkles and a black chocolate spot, and marionberry lemonaid cupcakes. The smash cake on top was a low sugar ladybug cake from Pink Princess Cakes. Except for the sprinkles on the head and the antenna it was all fruit sugars! We ordered a few cupcakes to go with the smash cake for the other babies that would be there. They were so very yummy!

The gift table

Pretzel ladybugs were a huge hit!

I embellished a little bib/apron for Ellie to wear over her dress.

 I also made the hair barret with an extra iron on patch from the bib.

For the edge of our driveway, I made direction signs.

The party was held in our home theater, I had a photo slideshow of Ellie playing on the screen. This is easy to do if you have a Wii and a memory card. The Wii has a slide show feature for photos saved to an SD card. I just picked my favorite pictures from birth through the day I made it and popped the card into the machine.