All of the decorations for my sons birthday I made myself... from the invitations, banners, favors bags to the game. The inspiration for his party is Woody from Toy Story. For the happy birthday banner, I tried to replicate Woody's attire. From the bandanna around his neck to his checkered shirt, the jeans he wore, and his cow print vest.
I've seen on a couple other blogs, a variation of this. For the "bandanna" I found a bandanna image, printed it out and glued it to white card stock. For the "shirt" I used a yellow sheet of card stock and cut out maroon strips and attached them on the sheet to make a checkered pattern. The "blue jeans" I wanted to make look like stitching around the edges so I used twine. I punched holes around the perimeter of the paper and fed the twine through. And finally the cow print. I could have went to Michael's and purchased cow printed paper but I thought it would be more fun for me to make it myself. There was two ways that I could have made the cow print. The first I cut our black swirly pieces and glue them on the white paper with no particular pattern and second you could draw them with a black permanent marker. I chose drawling them on. I just like the look better. It is your own preference. For the lettering, I used my Cricut to cut them out. I first cut out the letters in black and then cut and placed the white letters on top to give an added dimension.If you don't have the Cricut you can get letters from any craft store. I will also add twine to the back to hang it with. .
I have lots more to post about.. the inviations,favor bags, games, and lots more decorations!!!!!
In the words of good ol' Woody. Hope you had a rootin'tootin time!
