My little girl asks for a playdate or an ice lolly from the shop or to play one of those games we keep high up on the shelf away from sticky, destructive fingers (baby brother), but quite honestly, she very rarely asks for something that makes my blood pressure sky rocket.
She finishes her first year of primary school soon and I wanted to do something sweet and special, just for her. I asked her who she'd like to invite to her very own little party at home, and she decided on 2 friends in her class. So I decided it was a cupcake theme (she loves cupcakes). We set about making the invitations yesterday, and finished them within the hour. I'm all for recycling and being creative, but I'm also quite tired after a lovely weekend and a sad family bereavement, so I searched Pinterest.com for some inspiration. I saw some very cute cupcake invitations and thought, I could tweak those to suit our preferences (thank you to whoever originally made those invites, they're lovely!). My daughter loves hearts almost as much as I do, so she decided the cherries would be hearts, and her invitations would have hearts on them elsewhere.
I couldn't find coloured card (they're stuffed in an inaccessible box in the spare room...) so we used a cereal box, cut it into long rectangles, covered it with paper (folded white A4 paper around so it covered the coloured/picture side of the cereal box card so you couldn't see it peeping through), then glued the paper on to it with Pritt stick. We cut the coloured paper into the shape of cupcake topping, glued it to the covered cardboard, added the heart-shaped cherry and then cut the cupcake case into shape after the glue had dried. She helped with the wording and some of the writing, I added the finishing touches including a balloon in each envelope. Little Miss T had plenty of suggestions (she's a chip off the ole block!) and here's the result ♥
An afternoon well spent together, mummy & daughter bonding project complete :)
