Friday, August 22, 2014

It's your 3rd Birthday, Emmett

Emmett today is your actual birthday, but our family celebration is tomorrow.  So Grandma and Grandpa wanted to make your actual day special and took you to Chuck E. Cheese..one of your favorite places!  You also love the part close by, but today was too warm.

A special thing about this LO, normally there isn't anything (other than candy) that's great to re-deem with your tickets.  Today, however, i got a little clever and choose a paper puzzle.. Emmett would totally destroy this in minutes..and i would bet most kids would..it's cheap cardboard.  I looked at that puzzle differently, and chose it for this LO..don't worry, Emmett still got 3 rolls of Sweet tarts. :)  I also saved 3 tickets and we always have left over tokens.. I thought they all worked out great in a LO for embellishments.  One more thing i did, as we walked into Chuck E. Cheese and got our hand stamped..i mentioned it was Emmett's birthday and we got a free sticker with his name on it that he wore while we were there!  Cool, huh?

Emmett's 3rd Birthday Autograph page - Mario Kart

My youngest grandson, Emmett, turns 3 this year and i made his Autograph page/LO.  I have been doing this for all of my grand kids..since they were born.  Not really sure about the twins and when i started, but early for sure.  This is also the 3rd year i've made one for Emmett. 

His birthday theme is Mario Kart.  I know that his mom bought decorations online and we are going to construct a cake using the Mario Kart K'nex vehicle and some Super Mario figures. 

So i found a clip art on line and cut it out by hand and added some "OLD" scrapbook paper to frame and accent it with. I used my cricut to cut out the Happy Birthday and the #3.  My trick for the number three was to put the "shadow" 3 inside of circle and then cut the basic #3 out of red..so that way i didn't have to cut out the white because that was my background paper for my LO, and it gives me an "extra" #3 for the next page i am making. :)

I am thinking we will have a fun birthday party..