Sports Themed Birthday Party

My youngest munchkin is now 12 years old! Holy cow! By this time next year I’ll have 2 teenagers… does anyone know a way to slow down time?! Anyway… It took my youngest a while to figure out what he wanted to do for his birthday. But he finally figured it out and we’re having a sports themed birthday party. A couple of years ago he wanted a basketball themed birthday. So as an ever hopeful scrapbooker, I saved what I used/created and was able to use some pieces for this year’s theme. I want to make my munchkins birthdays special… I also don’t want to break the bank doing it!

Whenever I can I pull from my craft stash. I also love a good free printable! And there are tons out there. It’s rare that I’m hard up to find some good printables, no matter what the theme.

Sadly I don’t have many sports themed stamps. I do still have the baseball themed stamp set that Paper Pumpkin had a couple of years ago. But that doesn’t help me this time around.

So for this year’s party I created a fun sports themed centrepiece using a few different printables I found. I also put a little something on the pillow boxes I’m using for loot bags. I think these are the last loot bags I’ll be putting together 🙁 I’m pretty sure teens roll their eyes at stuff like that… or is just my 15 year old?

Sports Themed Birthday Party

Hopefully my youngest munchkin likes my interpretation of a sports themed birthday party. I still can’t believe he’s 12 years old!

Check out some of the things I put together for my oldest munchkin’s birthday a couple of years ago here.

I always use Stampin’ Up! cardstock when I’m using printables. The quality and colours can’t be beat! Stock up in my online shop!

Handmade Teenage Birthday

I can’t believe it… I’m the mother of a teenager now! How did that happen?! Anyway… She wants to be more involved in the planning and designing now, but I still wanted to do something special for her party. I have to admit, crafting a handmade teenage birthday is a little trickier than I’m used to. Usually I have a theme to guide my design. This time it’s a colour… rose gold. A great colour. One of my favourites… but not quite what I’m used to working with.

So I went looking at a local dollar store for ideas in their party section. When I was there I found a very colourful cake topper and decided to create my own. To do it I used the retired Playful Alphabet dies to spell out “Happy Birthday” in Rose Gold Specialty paper. Then I simply stuck the letters to pieces of Basic White cardstock and cut triangles out of the bottom. To create the banner I folded the cardstock over some retired Rose Gold Metallic thread and used some Mini Glue Dots to attach it to a couple of rose gold straws.

Handmade Teenage Birthday

The other thing I needed to figure out were the thank yous for my daughter’s friends. This idea was sparked by something I found on Pinterest. It’s a simple belly band wrapped around a kraft journal. I used the Hues of Happiness Designer Series Paper for the band. And I heat embossed “thanks” from the Biggest Wish stamp set in gold (sadly no rose gold embossing powder). Then I used one of the All That dies to cut it out and added it to the band.

Handmade Teenage Birthday

I hope she likes how these handmade teenage birthday favours turned out! You can check out the birthday card I made for her here. And stock up on any stamping supplies you need in my online shop.