A Fairy Birthday

Well, my daughter is turning 5 in about 2 weeks.  She decided (with a lot of prompting from me) on a fairy party.  I had so much fun with the invitations, and I have so many ideas for the party, too!  I hope I can make many of them come to fruition.

 

First, my main idea was to make the invites different... say, a fairy in a jar.  Since I was wary of giving glass jars to little 5 year old girls, I decided to use a clear plastic box instead.  And lucky me, I happened to have 5 of them!  I got to work making a poem for the invite, and worked on making butterfly hairclips.

 

I love how they turned out!

 

 There are 6... the birthday girl needs one of course, and hers is a little fancier than the others with a layer of special tissue paper overtop, and more gems on the wings.  I also picked a color that will complement her Tinkerbell costume that we bought for her for the occasion.  It's the same color as the flower on the skirt.

The other butterflies are very similar

 I painted a bobby pin with nail polish (some sparkly blue, others pink) and then cut out a paper butterfly using my Beautiful Butterflies Bigz die in each of the five colors that we also have as wings for the girls (they will 'become' fairies upon arriving).  The butterfly in their hair determines their wing color.  I cut a plastic butterfly from toy packaging for the backing so as to give them more structure and to prevent sparkles from getting in their hair.  And ease of use.  I mod podged sparkles all over these things after running the paper butterfly through the 'lacy brocade' embossing folder, and before adhering it to the plastic butterfly.  Slip on the bobby pin, add gems, and voila!  Sparkly butterfly.

I almost wanted to name them! 

 I made each of them a little fairy home.  The background of their 'home' is the invite itself.  You can see it from the back of the box and read it quite well.  Inside each 'home' is a daisy and an 'acorn lamp' I made using a paper clip, a cut disk from my trees, and an acrylic acorn from a bag of them I found at the dollar store (I couldn't resist them, they were so cute!).

 I love how they turned out!  Made one for my daughter too, of course.  It became Tinkerbell's lamp so 'she can work on her projects'.  I made one for me, too... cause they're cute... and I want one... and I made them, so there!

Here is the invite itself.  I wrote up the poem in little time.  Pretty proud of it, too... haha.  I thought poems work well for fairy tales, so why not?

All pretty in their boxes, awaiting their trip to each girl's home.  :)

Gah, why don't I have just one more of those boxes!  I am so tempted to buy another glowing mushroom so I can have another box for my daughter's butterfly home, haha.  Oh, and the grass?  Got that in a gift one Easter, years ago.  I save too many things.  Came in useful though, didn't it?  ;)

Now to solidify in my mind exactly what I will do to make the banner, the food signs, the 'seek and find' note...

This is too much fun!  I love having little girls!

Oh, and for fun, here is a pic of my baby looking at those glowing mushrooms I mentioned earlier...

Can you tell I got them for the party?  Yeah?  Thought so... too cute to pass up.  There is only 5 colors though... if I get a sixth, I'll need to double up a color...