Maddox 1st Birthday - Party Theme, Invitations, Save the dates and Thank you Tags

Six months prior to Maddox 1st birthday, I already decided to create my own design for his birthday invitations. My idea is ..."TICKET" style invitation...

I experimented first by using the theme "Justice League" because my first plan is to celebrate his birthday at the Shakey's Market Market where their themes includes Justice League and Barneys, unfortunately when we are about to do some reservations...they are no longer accepting parties during the weekend, so I decided to pursue my plan B which is to celebrate the party at Star City ( this is a separate entry so I wont discuss it here).

Why Sesame Streets? Simply because I want to concentrate only in a specific colors....I only wanted red, blue, yellow and green. So I picked up characters that will represents my chosen colors and that is Elmo, Cookie Monster and Big Bird.

Fated that the only accredited cake supplier of Star City is Red Ribbon which has Sesame Streets themed Cakes.

Anyway, here are the steps in designing the ticket style birthday party invitation using Sesame Streets theme.
First, since I have no time and costumes to use for a photoshoot I use "Face in the hole" site to  change the face of the babies in elmo, cookie monster and big bird's costumes and put the face of my Baby Maddox.

 Then I searched for some useful and colorful designs to complete my ticket style invitation:

Next, using MS Powerpoint I put together all the above designs.And the result is .......

I also created  " Maddox Gift Guide" and "Reminders"

 Of course, I need an envelope to put the invitation, gift guide and reminders.

Here are the final invitations. You will notice that I concentrated with 3 colors, representing 3 teams which are Team Elmo, Team Big Bird and Team Cookie Monster.

By the way, let me also share with you our "save the date" , "Thank You" tags and Dedication Card:

Sesame Streets Head Dress for Maddox 1st Birthday

This is a late entry for Maddox 1st birthday preparation we did, but who cares?! better late than never..LOL!

The idea of party hat is soooo ordinary to me, in fact children did not even wear that on the entire party...so I searched for a unique ideas on internet and I came accross the link for sesame streets birthday party ideas where they show samples of head dresses....Voila! My Maddox party hat is surely a winner treat for our guests...

Now let me share with you the steps on how to do an amazing head dresses.....


Materials:
Garments - colors are red, blue and white which we bought from Divisoria, same store where we bought the garments for Maddox costume.
Styroball - for eyes.
Black garter
Orange Styropaint - for Elmo's nose
Black Felt Paper - for eye balls
Pink and Sky Blue art paper
Glue

Steps:
1. Cut a pattern out of Manila Paper which will be use to cut the garments
2. Sew the sides of the garments including the black garter
3. Sew the styro balls on top. Eyes and Nose for Elmo's head dress.
4. Using glue, place the round black felt paper
5. Using glue, place the pink and sky blue art paper

Now here are the finished products:

 

COOKIE MONSTER



BIG BIRD

  

ELMO

 Im sure you are curious on the outcome of the head dresses to our visitors on the party. So here it is....

TEAM BIG BIRD

TEAM COOKIE MONSTER



TEAM ELMO