Rock n Roll Birthday

I love hosting themed birthday parties! This one was particularly fun! I tried to decorate like a 50's diner, we served hamburgers in paper cadillac boxes with bottles of Rootbeer. And I forced my boys to dress as Greasers! They were not to happy about the apparel but I informed them that I needed cute pictures, and it was all about the fun scrapbook page I was going to create after the party! :) So they stomped off to their bedrooms and changed and voila!! Exactly the pictures I wanted!

I used a black backgound paper for this page, although not much of it shows, I wanted a hint of black behind the pattern papers.  The stripe and blue at the bottom is from the confetti pack by My Minds Eye. The  black gingham is just some old paper I had.

For the "Rock & Roll" part of this title I went online and found a 50's font, printed it on black paper and cut it out with detailing scissors. I did the same thing  with the music notes. I wanted them to look shiny like a record so I embossed them with embossing powder and my embossing gun. 

The word "birthday" is done with bazzill chipboard letters I got from O Scrap. The records are actually from the streamers I decorated with, I got the streamers from a local party store. I embossed the records as well. 

The black ribbon on the page is from Wal-Mart. The black buckles are pretty old so I don't remember where I got them. I went online and printed the words from the "Happy Days" song on a transparency and put the strip along the bottom of each page.

I wanted a greaser on my page but I couldn't find any 50's stickers anywhere! Now that my page is done, I see them in every craft store around! Isn't that how it always goes? But, since I didn't have a sticker I had to paper piece my own. I found this image online. I even had some levi pattern paper! I had a great time making him! Don't be afraid to paper piece, you'll love the end product!

Sock Hop

I love the 50's...even though I didn't even live during that decade.  It reminds me of one of my favorite movies of all time--Grease!  (Although I showed it to my kids and they were appalled that I could call it one of my favorites because technically it isn't all that nice...but what can I say?)

My daughter's church group had a daddy/daughter Sock Hop.  All the dads and girls dressed in their best 50's attire and it turned out really fun...and out of it I got these cute pictures!  She went with her best friend and her dad, which was also fun for her.



Aside from the plain colored cardstock, all the patterned paper on this page is from Paper Studio and I got it at Hobby Lobby.  I love Paper Studio's coordinating regular paper--the price is good and it's all so cute!  The ribbon is also Paper Studio and was intended to go with the paper, so all the matching was super easy.  The letters for the title are glitter chipboard letters from Scrapworks, and the little musical notes were buttons that I cut the shank off of so they would lay flat.

These cute records aren't really scrapbooking supplies--they are from the party store and part of a long garland decoration that my sister bought for her son's birthday party.  Once the party was over, we cut the garland apart to use for just such an occasion as this.  They are super cute and no, they are not acid free but I'm just not all that concerned about it sometimes.

One of her leaders took lots of pictures of the event and emailed them to all the parents, so I managed to get these little pictures of the party that I could add to the page.  I matted them in white so you could see them better.  They aren't quite as small as they seem, but it is a little hard to see all the people in them.  However, my choice was to put them on small or leave them off altogether, and I didn't want to do that.

I just recently bought the Nifty Fifties Cricut cartridge...it's time for another Sock Hop!  Or maybe she should get a part in the play Grease...as long as she only plays Patty Simcox...