My Son's 3rd Superhero Birthday

My son's, Nathan, birthday is after Halloween. My husband and I decided to make his birthday a kids' costume party so they can re-use their costume. Courtesy of my nephew, Joshua, his small Superman costume was passed on to my son. Since it's after the Halloween, Caleb, our baby had a great deal on his Batman costume. We celebrated Caleb's dedication at the same time.

I collected some boxes with different height. Bought a wrapping paper to cover the boxes. I used black poster board for the windows. I also designed and cut the banners just like my inspiration. Here's I come-out with.

I was inspired by this photo I found my inspiration in Pinterest. The thing I love most to this is the skyscraper. 

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Cakes were courtesy of my husband's aunt, Mayette Baron. Here's another cake for our baby, Caleb.

I personally designed and cut these cupcake wrappers and toppers. 

If you'd like to see more of my cupcake wrapper designs, please visit my Facebook Page here.

My husband got an idea that both of us wear a superhero shirt too. We look around the mall and found in Old Navy and in another shoe store that cost around $25.00 each. That is way....way too much. So I convinced him that I will make it and will only spend less than $15.00 for both shirts. Which I did with the coupons at Michaels. Here's how I did it.

Materials Used:

Shirt

Reynolds Freezer Paper (used for stencil)

Americana Fabric Painting Medium

Acrylic Paint

Paint Brush

Flat Iron

Scrap board or cardstock

Instruction:

1. Mix the painting medium to the acrylic paint. Follow the instruction in the medium.

2. If you still have time to wash the shirts and iron before painting, do so.

3. Lay flat your shirt. Insert a piece of board or cardstock inside the shirt to avoid the paint to bleed at the back part of the shirt.

4. Place the shiny part of freezer paper stencil in shirt. Then iron it in medium temperature. Make sure that there's no opening in the edges.  

4. Start painting using your paint brush. (I suggest start on the edges so you can support any tiny openings.) No need to use for special brush. I bought mine in dollar store. Wait for few minutes for paint to dry before applying another stroke. Once contented. Let it sit to dry. Since I am on a hurry, I used hair dryer to dry the paint. lol! (If using fabric paint, I don't suggest using the hair dryer. It might bubble.)

5. Once paint is dry, carefully remove the stencil. Wait overnight. Place a piece of cloth on top of the print and iron the printed project. I got this idea from my husband. My father-in-law has a printing business in Philippines. (I think this is for the paint to really settle in the shirt....that's my explanation.)

Here's our shirts. I can say that the medium and acrylic paint works great. I had this done two months ago and the prints still look great after lots of laundry. 

"All the days ordained for me
were written in Your book
before one of them came to be."
(Psalm 139:16b, NIV)

Table Top Tissue Paper Tree

I got busy creating my tissue paper tabletop tree. This project requires a lot of patience and free time. You can do the flowers while watching TV or when you are not doing anything at all. If you are planning to have this decor on Christmas start early like around September so you don't need to rush. 

Things you'll need:

4 rolls of blue tissue paper / crepe paper

8 rolls of white tissue paper / crepe paper

Glue gun and glue sticks

Garland of silver beads

ribbon

poster board

stand

My total cost $8.00

My being scavenger came out again! I found these two leaves home decor down where our garbage bins were located on summer. I decided to keep it for future project. It's covered with newspaper because I painted the base silver.

One has damaged on the tip. Once painted I set it aside to be my tree stand.

First cut strips of about 24 inches in length.

Crumpled the strips.

Straighten the strip and fold about a quarter width of the strip.

Start rolling. If you want to create a bigger flower make it loose.

Since I will be needing TONS of these flowers. I decided to roll first and glue afterwards.

Use glue gun to secure the end of the paper flower.

Cut the garland of silver beads individually.

Apply some glue on your bead using your glue gun. Put it in the center of your flower.

Put some glue at the bottom of the flower and adhere in the cone paper board. I glued it going down in circular direction.(Btw, you need a LOT of glue sticks.) If you'd like to know how to make the cone poster board visit The Creativity Exchange

For the blue flowers, I decided to adhere it in a fabric ribbon. The reason is if I decided to change my color theme next Christmas, I only need to create the flowers in blue to another color.

Adhere the flower as close as possible to the bottom of the first one until you create like a circle. Once you reached that circle then you can adjust the spacing. Or better try it to your tree.

See! Just pull the blue flowers and next year create another color that you like.

Top it with a star or whatever tree topper you'd like to add.

Place it to your stand and there we go!

For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, 

and the government will be on his shoulders.  

  And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, 

Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

                                                                       - Isaiah  9:6 NIV

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