Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Lego Birthday Party Invitation

I have not been feeling super-creative lately, mostly because I've been in a whirlwind of painting in my house!  We hit up the big Labor Day paint rebate-a-thon at Lowe's and I've been using all the paint we bought.  So I've painted my old craft room (good bye argyle wall!) so my husband can use it as his office (hello Man Tan!), both boys' bathrooms (they're now Cosmic Lime, and yes, it's exactly as green as it sounds), and our Master Bath a nice, soothing yellow.  Ahhh.  But with all this work I worry that all my good creativity is behind me, thus this blast from the past:

Ian's Lego Birthday Party invitation.  I was super proud of this, and it was SO easy.  I usually end up mired down in some serious paper-crafting for the boys party invitations but this may be my easiest invitation ever!

Here it is:


I even got all poetic - if you can't read the small print, it says,

"Birthday cake, ice cream, and Lego bricks,
Ian (last name) is turning SIX!

Build the coolest house, the biggest tower,
the fastest car on wheels.
The party will be GREAT
as long as YOU are part of the deal.

Sunday, April 19th at 3 o'clock
That's when you should arrive.
In case you don't already know,
we're at (blankety blank blank) Drive!"

This thing was SO easy.  The boys and I just found all the brown and white legos we could, made candles out of some lego flames we happened to have (what kit did THAT come from - Harry Potter castle maybe?), and threw the piece of cake on Ian's special birthday plate - along with a cool Lego fork that Daddy made! and took a picture of the whole thing!  Adding the invite wording is easy.  Off to Costco to print 5 x 7's and you're in business for something like 79 cents an invite!

It was a fun party.  Lego cake was involved, but the icing didn't turn out quite vivid enough...it tasted good, though!!