One thing that I didn’t get a picture of at Karsyn’s Monster Party, was of this cute board. It was displayed on the same table as the cupcake cakes.
I got this board from Finger Snapper a LONG time ago. They are having the deal again right now, so click here to get it.
I didn’t take a picture of each step because I made it before I had a blog, but I’ll tell ya what I did.
First of all, I bought the paints at Wal-Mart for .97! SCORE! I love how inexpensive paint is. I knew his colors were going to be orange, blue, and green, so I painted each square a different color. Then the empty one black. I knew I was going to mod-podge a picture of him on it, once I got them done.
It looked cute with just plain paint, but I wanted something more, so I found one of my polka dot stencils and did a different color on each square. It was still cute, but kinda boring. I had a bag of googly eyes laying around, so I added one to each of the bigger circles. And wa-la!
Oh, I forgot to add that I painted around the outside AND inside edges black. And it’s okay if the black gets on your squares. (:
And I never did do a post on the invites that I made..
I had always planned to make them myself with paper and cut-outs and stamps and all of the above, but my creative juices were NOT flowing and I was getting really, super frustrated, so I just went into PicMonkey and made the invites.
Here’s a quick run-down of how I did them..
Click “Create a Collage”. Then click the middle button {on the left hand side} and it will give you a bunch of different layout options. I clicked the Pinter-etsy tab and chose the third one in. Then I saved it and went back to the main screen for just the basic editing. From there I added the words and shapes in each box. The colors I used were supposed to be a LOT brighter, but they never print out the way they look on screen. ):
They were still cute.
Then I stuffed them inside the envelopes, along with this picture…
He’s so cute!
Have you ever bought anything from Finger Snapper? Have you used PicMonkey to create anything before?
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