今日は妙な天気でしたね。蒸し蒸しするので、ある企画ですべった絵なんですがせっかくなのでそれと、涼しげなおにいさん供置いていきますね

for my soon to be 7 yr old's birthday shirt. sketched the minifig first from a lego photo, took it in and vectorized / colorized it in illustrator.

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I made these to go in the swag bags for the open house at my son's karate dojo.

Caleb's 6Th Done for a Taekwondo party. Mom wanted the bottom tier to be all the belts that you can receive.....so this is what I came...

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Created for a 15 year old's birthday who recently earned his black belt. Each of the colored belts on the cupcakes represent a belt he received after promotion tests on the getting his black belt. The cake and cupcakes are White Creme. The cake has a strawberry filling.

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This past weekend was Boy 2's 11th birthday. Hard to believe it's been that long since the day he was born! What you all need to know abou...

The invitation by moi (customphotocards.blogspot.com) Red paper lanterns I made from red poster board. I found a tutorial on youtube on how to make them. It was really simple and turned out so cute! I learned how to make Shuriken paper stars (another tutorial from youtube). I folded so many of these babies, I don’t think my hands will ever forget how to make them! Ninja cake made by Terry Zenz (Terrycakes here in town). I loved how it turned out! Just how I pictured it in my head. Some of the food ideas I found online (rice krispie sushi, nunchucks and oreo ninja cupcakes). So fun!! This Ninja cupcake idea I found on Pinterest was so easy and turned out super cute. You just take half an oreo, take off the frosting from the top and bottom of the cookie, add chocolate sprinkles for the eyes and viola you have a ninja!! I made this banner using a free font called Karate. I loved how it looked on the wall. The paper lanterns on the table were another fun craft I made. Again, super easy to do, I just goggled Chinese lanterns and found a tutorial on how to make them. They were fun to have to decorate all around the house the day of the party. Cake made by Terry Zenz (Terrycakes). Would you believe I found these awesome foam Ninja swords from Amazon?! I was so excited! I just added a little tag to them and gave them as favors for the party guests. Personalized Ninja headbands. I just printed out their names on my computer using the font Last Ninja. Then I traced their names onto the white fabric strips using a fine tip black sharpie. I had the guests find their Ninja name on this paper when they first came in. So fun! We were cracking up at some of the names. The kids loved finding out what their Ninja name was. Another activity we did when the kids first came in was decorate their own paper Ninja stars. Then later on we had them use those stars for this throwing practice game. They had to try and knock down as many balls as they could with their paper ninja star. I found this idea from here. This was a hit. Another game we had them do was to try and find the red Ninja lego guy in a bowl of rice using only chopsticks. Everyone loved this one. Another game we did was throwing rubber ninja stars onto this huge target board. I found these Shuriken stars on Amazon. They puncture a foam board like this one but don’t hurt anyone or anything. The kids thought these were pretty awesome! Especially when someone could get it to stick in the board. I found this idea from here. Ninja obstacle course I had set-up outside. It wasn’t too fancy but the kids really loved it. Our family (can you tell Brooks’ is thrilled to be in this picture?! LOL) Cute kids Party guests! Birthday boy! Brooks sneaking in and blowing out the candle before Dalton had a chance to! Little brothers!! Ha ha. Dalton’s buddies from his Kindergarten class. They called themselves the Three Amigos. Too cute. Present time!! Buddies!! The Birthday haul!Dalton had such a fun Birthday party! His friends & cousins were all so cute together. Everyone had a blast. All the smiles, fun and laughter made all the work totally worth it! We love you Buddy! Happy Birthday Dalton!!

(find part one HERE) Onto the fun! I feel like the most effort should be put into the games since that is what my kids always look the most forward to and what they talk about after the party is o…

Last year I felt that the gift I gave to our TKD master was pretty cool. You can see it here. So this year, I was kind of stumped. I feel like if you do something really heartfelt and cool, you can't just revert back to gift cards the next year. I brainstormed and brainstormed and came up with a big fat zero. I even scoured the aisles at Hobby Lobby looking for anything martial arts or TKD. I couldn't find anything. So then I thought, maybe a chipboard word that says "Thank You" would be good, and I can customize it. I couldn't find anything like that anywhere. But as we were driving home from visiting the family, I thought of maybe doing a TKD word cloud. You've seen those, right? You can actually make them online for free on sites like Wordle. Then I was trying to think of how I could create the word cloud online and have it print decently enough to make a finished art piece. What I came up with was using 12x12 canvases that I found at a thrift store for $2.50 each as my base. I love the look of the colors of belts students go through, so I wanted to include those too. I used ribbon that was about a quarter inch wide to block off roughly 1" wide stripes on the canvas. Then I used some embossing paste (again, found it at a thrift store) mixed with the paint colors I wanted to make the belts. I did have some leak under the ribbon, if I had had some painter's tape I would have preferred to use that. I made Miss Kelly's word cloud first, and I learned a few things from it. The first was I made 2 purple belts and then went back in with white paint and added the white stripe to the purple trim belt that way. On the second picture, I mixed white with the embossing paste and applied it to the second purple belt while it was still wet. I like the finished look of that one better. The other thing I learned with the first picture was that while it is easier to fit those last few words in with sharpies, they tend to smear when you apply the sealing layer of mod podge on top. Also, beware of the helpful cat who walks through the embossing paste before it is dry. I ended up adding little dabs of color throughout the canvas to make the mistakes Jack caused look intentional. So for the Masters' (they are married and so get 1 gift) picture, I really had to work an rework where everything went. A lot of the words were applied and then shifted if they were crooked, if I misspelled them, and if I used up too much room for a word and then needed the space later for another word. I also depleted my alpha stickers. But I love how they turned out and I know the Masters & Miss Kelly will love them. Both of my girls attend TKD now and it's our family hobby. I truly appreciate every minute the Masters and Miss Kelly spend helping my girls.

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