Wednesday, August 22, 2012

crafty touches for a birthday gift.

Yeah, I didn't have time to make a card for today, so you get to see what we gifted my "love machine hubby" with yesterday :)

What do you do when the prezzie your man wanted still isn't available for his big day?  (it's not a rhetorical question.  You grab your 3 kids, go to walmart, and ask them what they'd like to put into a box for daddy.)


Sooo, we ended up with a bag of doritos, a can of ice-tea, a gigantic calculator (it's hidden in the back), a chocolate bar, and a movie (I chose that one.)  

When we got home, we set out to make his gift-box a little more special.


I set the kids loose on sheets of cardstock, with a variety of circle punches.  I love all the badly-punched shapes, hee hee.  


Every man needs a party hat.... this one was upcycled from a previous project (read: a 1-year-old's birthday party.  Rip off the circus picture, die-cut a few birthday numbers, and voila! The old becomes age-appropriate...)


And what better to go with that cool, refreshing drink than a mustached-stripey-straw? (also lifted from a child's birthday party... and now you are starting to understand how little time I had... ha!)

In the end, all of the crafty touches were perfect for this grown-up-party-boy.  The kids insisted he wear his hat first thing in the morning, as they threw the confetti on him:


Thanks for peeking!

5 comments:

  1. perfect! how could he not feel loved with all of this?? You did good!

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  2. Love the birthday pics!! So cute with the chalkboard!!

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  3. super cuteness E! love the chalkboard pics :)

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  4. HA! This rocks... You did really well with no time, and being able to put it all on the kids makes it all the better!

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  5. Well I think you did a fantastic job with limited time and supplies! Sometimes its the little attention to detail which makes the occasion extra special - like that sweet confetti! :)
    Hugs!
    x

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