Halloween Birthday Party

This year I decided to be a good mom and have birthday parties for all of my kids.  Well, three out of four got parties.  Long story.

Anyway, I figure if I am truly a crafty mom then I can make some fun invitations and crafts and take-home treats for the kids.  (Not a big party planner, here.)  Our most recent party was the day after Halloween because daughter #2’s birthday is pretty close to that holiday.  She decided she wanted to have it a Halloween theme, and her friends could wear their costumes one more time.

I made the invitations before we decided on the theme.  (See my tutorial for these pocket-tag invitations here.)

I love how using adhesive-backed cardstock makes it so easy to add beautiful, colored, intricate designs.  I could have used vinyl, but it doesn’t have the same texture and thickness as the adhesive cardstock.  (This is “leaf green,” one of the first colors I bought and have used so many times!)

And back to the Halloween theme…

Jack-o-lantern juice.  I just peeled the label off a large bottle of orange soda and put a vinyl pumpkin face on it.  I added vinyl faces to all the cups, too, so when they were filled with orange soda they would also look like jack-o-lanterns.

For the craft, I had the kids decorate their own paper jack-o-lanterns.  I cut the pumpkin shapes out of chipboard and again from “salmon” adhesive cardstock, and put the cardstock on top of the chipboard for sturdiness.  Then I cut a huge pile of jack-o-lantern face pieces so the kids could pick their own unique combination.  I cut these from black adhesive cardstock and weeded the excess away so the face parts were sitting on the backing like stickers.  This craft almost went too fast!

For the take-home treats, I made these adorable monster treat bags (resized a little larger than the original).  Again, adhesive-backed cardstock for the eye and teeth pieces made these a snap to assemble.  The kids loved these!

Now I can breathe a sigh of relief that all the birthday parties for the year are over!  I’ll share my two summer parties as soon as I can.

Silhouette Designs Used: 
Pocket tags – numbers set (#63599) by Kolette Hall
Perfect flourish – you’re invited announcement (#50263) by Kolette Hall
Monster small treat sack (#66932) by Snapdragon Snippets
Black cat halloween set (#49278) by Kolette Hall
Build a jack-o-lantern: eyes (#22115) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack-o-lantern: eyes (#22113) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack-o-lantern: noses (#22118) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack-o-lantern: mouths (#22117) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack-o-lantern: mouths (#22116) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack-o-lantern: eyes (#22114) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack-o-lantern: eyebrows (#22112) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern mouth (#46580) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern nose (#46579) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern eyes (#46578) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern eyes (#32843) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern eyes (#32842) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern nose (#32841) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern mouth (#32839) by Snapdragon Snippets
Build a jack o lantern mouth (#32838) by Snapdragon Snippets