Harry Potter Party Part 1 Lolly Boxes and cake

This the first part of a few posts for the Harry Potter party that was held for Roslyn's 16th Birthday this year.

The first part is letting you know what we made.
I decided to do a few different posts so it wouldn't end up 1 big post .

Well where do I start. We started planning the party 12 months ago, what fun we have had. We being myself, Vicki Gardner and her daughter Roslyn, who's birthday it was .

We started off planning what we were going to make, we made flying keys ( which looked awesome) floating candles, spiders, a painted brick wall and a painted Hogwarts express train, the 9 3/4 platform sign and I almost forgot lolly boxes and wands and my face mask.

The day of the party I went over early to help put things up. I hung the spiders outside along with some spooky looking spider web and some smaller spiders, Roslyn and Vicki had made a big spider which also was hung outside, once it got dark the kids went outside and we turned off the light, a few got a bit scared.

We had a few working bees to get things made, with the lolly boxes we had a production line going to get them made, same with the wands.

Vicki made the topper to end all cake toppers. Out of Oasis florist foam, she carved the Hogwarts school. I had a very minor part in all this in that I supplied the clock for the clock tower.

Cake and cake topper

 



Lolly Boxes

 

 

 

 

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Finished boxes.

Medieval Fayre 2013

Medieval Fayre 2013.

 

Here are some photos of the things I have made.

My latest creations are for this years Medieval Fayre being held at Nurringingy Reserve at Doonside 18-19th May 2013.

I decided last year that I would make a dress. Oh what fun that's been ,trying to get it right has been a struggle as I am not a very competent sewer. I did have the help of the sewing Queen Vicki Gardner. She is a wizard when it comes to sewing,

I also made a necklace but there was a bit of a disaster with that so I remade it, I have tried it on with the dress and it looks pretty good.

 

I have made a little bag to carry my things in, also a fabric covered headband and a belt to wear also.

I had found this awesome fabric at Spotlight which was so pretty, I have since realised that I need more of it but haven't been able to find it again ( OH WELL ).

I found a pattern for the dress but in the beginning kept looking on line to find different dresses but always came back to the same one, so that's the one it had to be.

I had gone to our local craft stores to find that the pattern was $20, me being me couldn't bring myself to pay that much so I searched on eBay and found it for $5.

I am now almost a year later close to finishing the dress and accessories for the Fayre.

We have a busy couple of months ahead with a 16th Birthday party for my friends daughter, its going to be a Harry Potter party,but that's another post.

Thanks for stopping by.

I love this snood, I got it off ebay along with the pattern for the dress.

 

The original necklace I was going to make ended up not working so this is what I came up with.

 I had to put this cross on the front of the dress.

 

 

 My knight in shining armour.

Thanks to Vicki for taking these 2 pictures. 

 I had so many people want to take photos with me, I felt like a rockstar.

Fabric covered headband. I bought a black plastic headband and cut strips of fabric and wound them around the headband.

 

These next couple of pictures are of the belt I made. As it was green webbing I had to make a cover for it out of normal burgundy cotton then I covered it with the same fabric as the dress.

 

 

 

 The next lot of photos are of the lace parasol I bought in white and decided to dye it burgundy.

 

 

This is the little bag I made to carry my things on the day.

 

18 inch circle

 

 

 

Kaiser craft project 1 square box, K and Create

Kaiser craft.

 Project 1

 

 

I go to Spotlight a lot and always see projects I want to do , some times I buy them then they sit there unfinished. This year I decided to actually get them done.

 

The first one I did was a little square container to hold pens etc.

I had the perfect paper for it which looked like padded look paper in a very light mint green colour.

The only problem was that I only had 2 sheets of it and there wasn't a name on the paper so I could find out where to get more, then I thought well do 3 different ones.

 

The first one is using the padded look paper, for around the top I used a cream gimp braid and little cream pearls .

 

As I wanted to keep the same sort of colour theme because I had painted the boxes with Kaisercraft Pistachio paint , I looked through my paper stash and found 2 other papers that had similar colours to the paint,all up it took me about 1/2 to finish all 3 of them off .

 

I like them as they all have different jobs they have to do. 1 is for pens ,the others are for scissors and tools etc.

 

Kaiercraft

 

These ones are just for me.

As most of you know I love the colour red and butterflies. So what better way to use both.

I found this awesome paper which has red tones and of course Butterflies.

 

I found a Kaisercraft Create word at Spotlight along with a big K.

 

I painted the edges with a red/burgundy paint ( I think I mixed this one up ), then I covered the create with the butterfly paper, I then cut out a little butterfly and stuck it onto the word. Its now stuck on my craft wall.

 

The K I did the same thing as I did with the Create word. I was going to use different paper but I thought why not use up the rest of the paper. I do sometimes have trouble cutting up papers but now I think with them what the hell.

This paper is of course Kaisercraft P769 Sweet Nothings Double-Sided Paper 12 in. X12 in.

 

 

 

Kaisercraft project 5 Plaque for Hayden

Kaisercraft

 

Project 5

 

This one was a cute one to do.

 

I found at Aldi of all places, Kaisercraft kits for $10. Well you know me I love a bargain.

This kit had a plaque, papers, embellishments etc, its a great kit.

 

My cousin and his wife were expecting their 2nd child, at that stage they didn't know what they were going to be having.

Once they found this out this kit was so perfect for it . It had Kaisercraft papers to it that were great for a little boy.

 

This one took me a while to do too as I couldn't decide on where everything was going to go.

 

I used Kaisercraft letters and paint Yellow deep KC006

 

These papers are great as they have little edges which can also be used on your projects.

I finished the project off the night before Mothers day this year.

 Some of the papers I used were from the Party Animal Collection P658 Yippee.

I am happy with how the project turned out, its nice and bright .

 

Rubik Cube tissue box cover.

 

I had seen this on Big Bang Theory around their house quiet a few times.
I found the pattern for sale on Ebay from a wonderful lady called Rochelle Roseman Frisby

It took me 10 hours to complete but I think its well worth the effort.

The pattern says to use Worst weight wool,which for Australia is 4 ply,but 4 ply is too thin so I used 8 ply instead.The material I used for the framework is called Plastic canvas,this particular one is 7 count. There are 8 different colours to this cube.
I got all of my wool from Big W,I think it was only abou $2.50 a ball which is pretty good.
I have enough wool left over to knit an elephant a jumper.

It does look very cool indeed.

Thanks Rochelle.

Pieces finished.

Sewn together.

The finished project.



Crayon Canvas

This was a fun project to do. I am going to do a bigger one for my friends daughter for her birthday.

I bought a box of crayons from Kmart $2, bargain,a canvas from Hot Dollar.

All I did was hot glue the crayons onto the canvas then melt them with a heatgun.

Nothing could be simpler.

Next time I do this I will use a longer canvas so the melted crayon has somewhere more to go.

$2 box of crayons from Kmart.

Crayons glued onto white canvas.

Finished project.

 This canvas is a much bigger one than the first one I did,you can see in photos below the size difference.

Ok,this one was a bigger canvas, it cost me a total of $8.50 + the crayons $2 

Across the top I glued the crayons,different from the smaller canvas I did originally.

This is the 2 canvases together.You can see the colours are on the canvas differently.

I think having a longer canvas worked better than the smaller as the wax had more places to run.

This is the finished canvas done for Roslyn Cameron for her Birthday.