Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Milk & Cookie Birthday Party


My adorable little nephew just turned 1! I can't believe it has been a year already since I made these shirts for my family to meet him in the hospital.


He had a milk and cookie themed party. And I designed the invitations. I used Adobe Illustrator to draw out the design.


 I also helped my sister out while she made dozens and dozens of cookies by making the cookie cake.


I used 3 chocolate circular cakes with a thin layer of icing in between for the base. And for the cookies on the top I carved the cookie shape out of 2 white circular cakes. Since the shaping left all the edges crumbly I had to do 2 layers of icing to cover the cake crumbs that mixed into the icing.


I then stuck real chocolate chips into the cookie on the top. I used larger bakers chocolate chips for decoration around the bottom and top of the base cake.


I think Liam thought my cake was awesome!



I also made a chalkboard poster for a photo prop with all of Liam's first year information. There are a lot of them on Etsy right now that are hand painted with pen markers but I am a little more indecisive, I like to place something try it out, move it around, change the font, see where it looks best.... so I did my poster on the computer.
 I used Adobe Illustrator but you could use any vector based design program. I downloaded my favorite chalk board fonts from www.dafont.com or you could use the links from this site: http://www.lilblueboo.com/2013/01/favorite-free-chalkboard-fonts.html


I took the file to staples and printed a engineer print, only cost $3.46. Then I used spray adhesive to attach the paper to a black foam board then cut off the white border and voila! Done.



My sister had tons of unique, special touches to make this party awesome, these were just my contributions.
~Jessica

5 comments:

  1. Which program did you use in Adobe to create that darling sign?

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  2. Jessica, greetings from SoCal.
    Beautiful work!
    What is the name of the font that you used for the word Liam?

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  3. do you know the name of each font used? i know thats alot to ask, however i love the look of your board and am not a crafty person so help is appreciated thanks

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    1. The font I used for the name at the top is called Engraver. But I layered the font, I put to one in the back with a thick white outline and then I place the same letters on top (in the same font) but this time with a black outline and a white center.
      Hope this helps!
      Jessica

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