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Matthew’s birthday party
Well, Matthew is a year old now and I’ve finally gotten around to getting my photos looked at and uploading some of them to my Flickr gallery. I was so happy with how the cake turned out. Matthew’s birthday party was a baseball theme and started with the invitations:
I used my Silhouette to cut out the circle card base on kraft cardstock. It was an image that had other designs being cut for the front of the card, so I ungrouped them, then removed the parts I didn’t need. Then I chose the baseball. I resized it to fit on the card base. I ungrouped that too and copied the stitches to another document. I left the stitches in the original baseball and regrouped it so I could copy and paste it with the stitches into a new document numerous times on the same page. If I am mass producing cards such as invitations or thank you cards I will place as many of them on a sheet as I can by using the copy and paste feature. I also created a document in Photoshop with the text of the invitation for the inside of the card. I saved it as a .bmp document and pulled it onto a document in the Silhouette software. I copied the outside of the baseball and pasted it on top of the text document and moved it until it was over the text I wanted to be cut out. I printed it on lightweight plain cardstock (from Staples I think) and then ran it through my Silhouette – voila! My own print and cut ;D Assembly was super easy once I had everything cut out, and I inked with Ancient Page Sandalwood around the outside of the card, inside text, and over the stitching and the edges of the baseball. I really wanted the baseballs to look like gamers, not pearls (in baseball talk, a gamer is a rubbed up game ball, and a pearl is a brand new unused ball).
Then I got to work on the cake using my Silhouette again! Here are the pictures:
I was so happy with the results! My husband commented that the bases are too far back in the running path, but other than that he was very excited about the cake 
I used the baseball field image on the Silhouette, and used the negative space in the template to mask off the running path. I sprinkled green crystal sugar to make the grass and the infield, then piped by hand the bases and the fair/foul lines. I piped a bit more chocolate icing for the pitching mound and a small strip of white for the pitching rubber. Not too shabby, eh?
Lastly, the thank you cards. Super easy using more craft cardstock, the same white and red cardstock from the invitations and some of my baseball paper stash (I think it was Karen Foster but I can’t find it on her website – I’ve had it a few years now). The thank you stamp is Basic Grey. The baseball border stamp is TPC Studio. I stamped the thank you in green Memento ink, and the baseball border in red Memento ink, and coloured in the baseballs with a white watercolour pencil.
Next I’ll show you the invitations for Kyle’s birthday party – but you can get a sneak peek if you check out my Flickr gallery here.
See you soon!
DeAnna
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