letterpress cards that make me giggle

i LOVE letterpress cards.

i love them even more when they make me laugh.

i REALLY think i need this one:

or this one:

or this one...

(am i the only one that is really MAD that you can't buy 

any milli vanilli songs on itunes?

grrrr...

i had their album memorized back in the day...

when i was wearing penny loafers,guess jeans and my swatch watch.

i was totally rad. like totally rad.)

more awesome stuff here.

yummy

is it just me, or does this card 

look good enough to eat?

simply beautiful.

found at LetterpressLight's etsy store

13 days of thankfulness: day 10

i am thankful for:

yummy stationary.
and beautifully 
wrapped gifts.

Image by Sande Chase, via a giftwrapped life.blogspot.com , 
other images from: fresh impression, dauphine press,sweetbeets etsy shop,  carolyn roehm, smock paper

chinese birthday celebration: invites & gift bags

i'm a firm believer in setting the theme and color scheme for a party with 
great invitations.
and it always helps if other elements of the party 

reinforce the color scheme, including the gift bags.

here are the invitations i made for my daughters 
8th birthday party:

pretty time consuming,yes, 
but i love the way 
they turned out.
i printed the invite on the dotted fuschia paper, stamped and embossed the pagoda and edge, and layered it with black paper. i made the black sleeves as well, and applied the chartreuse paper, layered the brocade fabric on top, and wrapped some raffia (spray painted gold), and topped it with a gold chinese coin. all the paper was purchased at a local scrapbook paper store, the fabric at joann's, and the coins at oriental trading company.i had the raffia and gold spray paint on hand.
and here are the gift bags 
we gave out...

each bag contained a fan, some "chopstick" pencils (in a sleeve i made), 
a kaleidoscope, a chinese yo-yo, and some junior mints.