Showing posts with label invitations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label invitations. Show all posts

2.16.2011

gotta catch 'em all

Our high school just had Winter Formal which is a girl ask guy event.  Here's the details of how Megan asked her date.

She started with clear plastic christmas ball ornaments that she separated - spray painting one side red and the other white.


Once dry she inserted one puzzle piece into each ball.  The puzzle was an enlarged photograph of a local place that Megan had cut into 12 pieces.



Megan then took the 12 balls and added black electrical tape around the middle and finishing them off with a round white sticker.  If you are a geeky boy or live with any geeky boys you might now recognize that what Megan was creating was pokeballs from Pokemon.  We apparently embrace geekiness in our home.


All Megan needed to complete her invite was a letter from the Pokemon Center and the actual invite (little square card below) that was inserted into a pokeball and placed at the location that the puzzle revealed when put together.


January 16, 2011
To:  Brock, Pewter City Gym Leader
From: Nurse Joy, Pokèmon Center, Kanto Region
Dear Brock,
We need your help!
Yesterday, at the break of pokèdawn, the malicious trio of Jesse, James, and Meowth 
(that's right), otherwise known as Team Rocket attacked a pokètrainer in the Oaktree
Forest, scattering all his pokèballs.  We need you, you squinty-eyed, hair-gelled 
pokèwonder, to save the day! 
According to our pokèsources the trainer lost 12 pokèballs, all in the vicinity of the
pokèbridge, located near the center of the pokèforest.  We need you to immediately get
dressed in the provided pokètraining ensemble and locate all of the pokèballs.  You
GOTTA CATCH ‘EM ALL!  
Once you have safely gathered all 12 pokeballs it is imperative that you bring them back
to the safety of your pokèhome to be opened so as to not have any pokèmon escaping
into the wilds of the forest.  The safety of these 12 pokèmon is of the upmost importance.
Their pokèsafety is in danger so please perform this mission quickly.
The pokètask may be treacherous and you may desire the company of another skilled
pokètrainer.  Feel free to locate another trainer of your choice and bring them along. 
In the event that you do bring another trainer all we ask is that you provide the
companion trainer with the necessary pokèrecording equipment that we have given
you so as to document the pokèmission for later review.
Thank you so much for helping us solve this puzzling pokèproblem.



Megan, Emily and Meg's friend Kenzie dropped off the letter and a Brock outfit (for those not in the know Brock is a pokemon trainer that wears an orange shirt and green vest) at the door of her intended date, rang the doorbell and ran.


Before ding dong ditching they had hid all 12 pokeballs


at this local park.


While waiting around to make sure no little kids would come by and start grabbing pokeballs before Austin got there I snapped this picture of Emily.  It has nothing to do with the invite - I just like it :)


His response came a few days later.  After a knock on the door Megan walked out to find this...


disclaimer: the above photo is a reenactment :)

The back of the yes sign...


And the personalized pokemon card that accompanied it









7.24.2008

some party inspiration

I was doing my daily search over at Hostess with the Mostess today and saw these fantastic plates.  I am in love!  I knew immediately that I had to have them but for obvious reasons I needed to have a purpose for buying them (Hello Derek?  I fell in love with some plates today so I bought them for the heck of it.  No, I have no reason for them.  I thought I would just stick them in the cupboard and pull them out periodically to look at them and smile) The light bulb went off and now I am the proud owner of these too cute plates and Luke is having a superhero/comic book party for his birthday in September. Remember how much he loves superheroes?!?!?


I already have the general idea for the invites - similar to what I did here.   

I'm gonna hit the Internet and see what else I can find to go with our chosen birthday theme. I know for sure we'll be making some capes and other superhero accessories.  I'm wrapping presents with comic book paper.  The possibilities with this theme are endless.  If anyone has ideas that they want to share please leave a comment.

6.03.2008

love playing with paper

I haven't had a chance to make any invitations in a long time so it was fun to work on some for Oakley's finance conference.  I will admit that when Derek first asked if I could do them I was a bit hesitant - it seemed like a lot of work to crank out 50 handmade invites, especially with no set theme.  I have said it before...I like working with themes, it gets my creative juices flowing. I
also feel some stress when I do invites for other people - I want them to be perfect.

When the last invite was done and I tied them all up with a ribbon, ready for delivery I was glad that I had agreed to do them.  I loved having the chance to be creative and it was fun to pull out my sewing machine for something other than costumes.



For those that care the font used is walkway bold.  I got it from Dafont.  I get nearly all my free fonts at that site.