A Pinteresting Wednesday: Charlie Brown Party Invites

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Welcome to another A Pinteresting Wednesday--Charlie Brown Party Edition.

I am kind of hoping you all aren't all Charlie Brown'ed out. When I do a party it tends to kind of consume all my creating time. Consequently I have a lot of party related projects to share.

So fingers crossed you guys are waiting on the edge of your seats for the next Charlie Brown Birthday Party installment...

Or at the very least you are mildly interested in the crazy antics of yours truly and are kind of waiting to see what I come up with next!

I have said before that Pinterest has made throwing a party all the easier.

Not only can you find entire parties in certain themes, but you can also find different ideas here and there that would fit into a specific theme.

I have used Pinterest to help me plan a Superman Party, a Harry Potter Party, an Avengers Party, and recently a Mexican Fiesta First Birthday and of course a Charlie Brown Party.

Most of the time I use ideas I pin as PINspration...sorry I had to..ehem..

So as I was saying I use Pinterest as a jumping off point.

Today I am sharing with you my Charlie Brown Birthday Party Invites.

I had THIS invite from Piggy Bank Parties on my Charlie Brown Pinterest Board.

I made a simple little version of their card for Little's invite. I used PicMonkey, of course.

I didn't just want the party invite, though. I also wanted an envelope for the invite.

I had this little idea to use Peanuts comic book images as the paper for the envelope.

I had this Peanuts comic book.

I scanned in one of the comic strips that I liked.

I edited the image in Picmonkey, adding a text box saying, "You Are Invited".

I printed off the image twice, once with the words and once without.

Then I sewed the two papers together right sides facing out.

That made a perfect little pocket envelope for the Charlie Brown Party Invite.

All I had to do is repeat so each little party guest got one.

Pinterest is perfect for a little inspiration.

My Time to Party Board is jam-packed full of party ideas.

Are you throwing a party anytime soon? Do you use Pinterest too?

I would love for you to follow Just Another Day in Paradise on Pinterest.

Printing on a Lunch Sack

Printing on lunch sacks is one of my new favorite ways to create my own cute packaging.

I first did printed on lunch sacks for our teacher Brownie Points Valentine's.

I have used it several times since...it is AHHHHdicting.

Most recently I made these take-home bags for Little's Charlie Brown Birthday Party. Through a little bit of trial and error I have worked out a method of printing on lunch sacks that works out pretty well for me.

Today I am sharing my handy dandy method of printing on a lunch sack.

The very first step of course is creating the image you will use on the lunch sack.

I created this image by using an image of Charlie Brown and adding the text and word bubble in the online photo editing program PicMonkey.

I saved it to my computer.

Then I opened up a Word document. I edited the margins to the narrow setting.

Insert the image into your document. You will want it justified left. The image will most likely need to be shrunk down a tad to make sure it fits on the bag. You will also want to move the image down a tad.

Now, if you print the bag now, the image would be facing the wrong way. So you need to flip it.

First, under page layout go to the ROTATE icon. Flip the image vertically. If there is any writing it will be as if you are looking in a mirror.

So the last step is to ROTATE the image HORIZONTALLY.

Now the image is upside down and facing the proper way.

To actually print the image on the bags, first grab some lunch sacks. For this project I used white bags.

You will want the "bottom" of the bag to face the top and the "bottom flap" of the bag to face you.

Load the lunch sack into your printer with the "bottom" facing up.Move the slider in the printer over so it rest right against the edge of the lunch sack (you know like when you print on an envelope).

Now all you have to do is print it off.

I do recommend doing a trail run first. Sometimes the printer has a hard time feeding the bag through. No matter how many times I have done it, there is still a little bit of trail and error. You might have to move your image up or down to get it right were you want it.

Once it comes out perfect, just keep printing until you have all your bags.

I had fun adding these Charlie Brown Chevron Sugar Cookies to my freshly printed Charlie Brown take-home party bags.

I tied them up with a little strip of fabric. Then they waited patiently until the end of the party until it was time to go home with our cute and happy party guests.

I pretty much promise that once you try this, you will use this technique all the stinking time. You might even come up with gifts you can give out just so that you can print on some more bags.

You probably should just go buy lunch sacks in bulk.

Just sayin'.

Thanks for stopping by.

I would love for you to share this how-to 

on Pinterest and/or Facebook.

Love, love, love it.

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Sugar Bee Crafts, Today's Creative Blog,
Lil'Luna, High Heels and Grills,
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Your Homebased Mom,
Love and Laundry,
Suburbs Mama

A Charlie Brown Birthday Party

Whoosh! Guys, what a week. Heck what a month. Okay let's be realistic...it has been a crazy SEVERAL months.

Good news folks! This Charlie Brown Birthday Party marks the end of our CRAZY, with a capital CRAY, run of birthdays.

Little came up with this birthday theme around Christmas time when he developed a mild obsession with all the Charlie Brown movies playing on Netflix. I readily agreed because to be honest it is really hard to tell Little no when he asks so sweetly.

For the next 3ish months we have heard of very little else.

He was very excited. In fact in every sweet little prayer he has uttered for the last month plus, he has thanked Heavenly Father for his birthday and birthday party coming soon.

It was really rather sweet.

So sweet in fact that I was given to panic when just a few short weeks before his party, nothing was actually planned, and I was worried about letting his sweet face down.

AHHH!!!  

A Charlie Brown Themed Birthday Party was a little harder to put together than I had anticipated.

Everything finally came together and there was plenty of Charlie Brown fun!

I decorated with a lot of yellow and black in true Charlie Brown fashion. Although, did you know that Charlie Brown did not always wear his oh-so-well-known yellow with black chevron?

I found that little gem out while putting stuff together for this party.

For a little pop there was some red added in, but it was just a tad since Charlie Brown was the star.

One of my favorite things were these simple graphic Charlie Brown poster that I made using PicMonkey.

Ya wanna know what my very favorite part was?

The birthday boy in his custom-made Charlie Brown Shirt was my very favorite part.

The kids' favorite part was lunch.

The lunches were packed with traditional lunch items.

Fresh cut red apple slices.

Pretzel twists.

Homemade Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Of course we can't forget the PB and J. Everything was nestled in a cardboard lunch box.

 Just add a glass of milk and let the eating begin.

Happy, happy eaters.

Cute, happy, happy eaters.

We followed lunch with a few games, hot potato Snoopy being the crowd favorite.

Next we went on to coloring and chalkboard fun.

Coloring took a lot of concentration.

They weren't concentrating hard enough to forget about the baked goods though.

Black frosting adds a bit of fun to an otherwise boring cupcake.

Little had a really good time and as always, was very appreciate by saying "thank you" over and over.

When the party was done he said "thank you" to his little friends with Charlie Brown take home gifts.

My new favorite thing is printing on lunch sacks. I am all set to show you how I made up these bags tomorrow in a little tutorial.

Thanks for sticking with me last week while I was MIA. I would send you each a little Charlie Brown Thank You, but that would be a lot of lunch sacks AND more ink than I could buy at Sam's Club.

So accept my little virtual "thank you". You guys are the bestest.

See ya tomorrow!

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Love and Laundry,
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WINNER: Firmoo Glasses Voucher

I am finally stopping by and announcing the winners of the Firmoo Glasses Voucher GIVEAWAY...

YEP...WINNERS.

I have SIX vouchers to give away, so there are SIX winners.

The winners are:

83. Corrie Hummer Gibson

53. Dezi Allen

34. Andrea Jones

7. Natalie

18. Jessica Williams-Boling

78. Willy Vh 

Congrats. I will be contacting you by email and sending you the 

voucher code. So excited for you and your new stylish glasses.

In Charlie Brown Party News...

I am whittling down list items one at a time and 

we are getting closer  to the party date.

I am excited to show you some of the features of this party.

I hope you are excited to see them...

humor me...

just say, "why yes, yes of course we are!"

Love ya all!

Have a great day.

Pardon The Blog Silence

Sorry for the silence around the blog lately.

I can guarantee there has not been actual silence around our home. We have had birthdays, visitors and Spring break.

Basically we have had tons and tons of fun!

I am now up to my eyeballs in planning our last birthday party in the a long line of birthdays.

A Charlie Brown party is harder to put together than you would imagine. I am 15% done and I have roughly 5 days left.

Hopefully you will see my face around here whilst I party plan my fanny off...which is much needed after a very yummy Spring Break and Easter.

Have a great Monday!