Whooooo's Having a Baby???

There is really only a few times a year that I feel like I have "creative juices." The #1 event that would involve my favorite use of creative juices would be Christmas. I love Christmas cards. I love making my Christmas card. I love taking the annual picture to put on front of my Christmas cards. Let's face it, I just love cards in general. I also love that people look forward to seeing what my card will look like and look forward to receiving it! Makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.

A friend of mine recently asked me if I would be interested in making some Baby Shower invites for her dear friend who is expecting twin boys. I thought to myself, eh - why not!? I enjoy this time of stuff and another event to hopefully bring a smile to people's faces with the final product. I agreed, and am thrilled that I did with the way that the final product came out! Thankfully, my dear sister helped me with every aspect of the invites - we were a fantastic team of two!

The inspiration of the card was the Baby Boy's Nursery. The Parents-to-be decided to decorate in green and browns with owls. I won't lie, I was scared out of my wits when I heard the decor in wondering what creative juices I had to create these invites!

Kate and I went to every craft/scrapbooking store in Central Ohio to find all of the perfect supplies that would create an invite that would make the Mama-to-be cry! :)

After about a week of non-stop working on the invites on the weekends and after we both came home from work, they were finally complete!

This is the front of the invite, with the ribbon that you actually pull off rather than un-tying. We have the two owls on the front to represent the Twin Boys Johnson.
And... the inside! This is the part that took a TON of time but at the end of the day, I couldn't be more pleased! Every leaf under in the center was handcut, the branches were hand drawn, the little placed owl was handcut and glued one by one! Green and brown are the dominant colors to represent the colors that are being used in the nursery.
Today, is the baby shower!

I received a surprise message from the hostess today which made me smile ear to ear! They used the front two owls of the card, the branches as well as the brown and white polka dot ribbon as the inspiration for the cake! Everything matches perfectly!
Though it was a long and stressful time getting all of these complete, I wouldn't trade it for the world! On the flip side, it was so much fun and seeing the final product complete made me realize how I wouldn't mind doing this again! Kate and I always joked around about how we should do things like this, but I am serious! I loved it and would do it again anytime!

I hope that the shower today went off without a hitch, and everyone enjoyed the themselves and that the soon-to-be baby boys know how lucky they are to have such loving people in their lives!