Baby Shower/St. Patricks Day Party!

My sweet friend is having a baby next week. Me and another friend Kate, threw her a baby shower and it just happened to fall on St. Patrick's Day. We thought it was meant to be because she is naming her baby Killian which is an Irish name. So we ran with it. Here is what we created!

The favors we made had an Irish saying along with some treats. I printed them with my sketch pens on the silhouette and then cut it out. I love that you can sketch things on the silhouette and leave the mat in it and then have it cut it.

Kate spent a lot of time making these cupcakes. She split the batter up and colored them all. Then she layered them in the cupcake wrappers. I made the toppers. I again used my silhouette to cut them out. They took a little more time then I thought they would because I had to use the sketch pens for the rainbow first, then cut it out, then cut the clouds, banner and yellow background cloud, separately. Then I had to color the rainbow, glue it to the banner, then glue the white cloud to the yellow cloud, then glue them both to the rainbow.

It was a lot of work and I was sad to see them all thrown away after the party. I guess in hindsight, I could have just taken them off the used toothpicks and kept them for another party. Oh well, too late now.

I found this super cute idea on pinterest. It was pretty simple. I've had a lot of leftover clothes pins from another project and decided to use them up. Really, my silhouette did all the work. All I did was glue them to the clothes pin and roll them up.

The water bottles, I love. Again my silhouette did the work, I just had to assemble.

Here is the finished project.

We had a rainbow fruit platter with fruit dip clouds. Yummy veggies, cupcakes, spinach/artichoke dip with bread. It was delicious. My mother in law made me the apothecary jars and I love them. I filled them with lucky gold coins, skittles so we could taste the rainbow;-) and rainbow colored gumballs.

I made this cool subway art for it and sewed a little table runner out of festive fabric. The lucky banner took me forever to make. After all the cutting my silhouette has done, the blade is getting pretty dull, so I had to trim, cut and just help it along a bit. When all is said and done, it was a hit! I love how everything turned out!