ryann's second birthday - alphabet party invitations

Guess what I finally did.  Found the invitations from Ryann's birthday party.  They were cleverly placed in an unmarked bag with a whole bunch of other design stuff that I saved as samples.  I was obviously thinking ahead and putting them with like objects.  Good plan, good plan...

Anyway, here are my terrible photos of the invitations:

The illustration was inspired by Melissa of I Still Love You's invitations for her daughter's birthday party.  Hers is much better than mine of course, but I think you still get the idea.  I combined that with the idea of a letter flash card to get the whole look.

I spent a long time trying to figure out the best way to get the illustration the way I wanted, and ultimately settled with just tracing a photo taken by Anne Pendleton Photography in illustrator.  I am not all that proficient in illustrator so it took me a while, but it works for me.

To see more from Ryann's party, go here!

hey baby

One of my coworkers is getting ready to pop, and the girls at work recently got together to shower her with some baby love. I'm not going to lie I am pretty sure she is stocked with diapers!

I put together an invite and a diaper cake, so I figured I would share. Here is the invite that I put together. Nothing too crazy, but I like the way it turned out.

And here are a couple of pictures of the diaper cake. Of course I'm an idiot and only took pictures on my phone, so they are rather horrible, but you get the idea.

While at dinner one of the cooks and the manager came by and asked us what kind of cake it was. When we told them it was a diaper cake they looked a bit confused... "So you don't eat it?" No guys, you don't eat the diapers. Ha ha.