Eileen Hull

Three dimensional art... with heart

Birthday Bash

On the night of March 6, the Woolies held their annual birthday celebration. This is a group of 18 amazingly creative women who meet twice a month in the local Wegman’s. Two of the members have moved- one to Hawaii and one to CO, but they keep in touch through email and FaceBook. Read here about how I came to be invited to this group by Pat Sloan.

Since most of the group are quilters (I don’t really quilt but I still love fabric!), each person brought a fat quarter and a $15 gift. The exchange of gifts was quite lively! Here’s what one of the gifts looked like. Are these little guys not adorable? They were made by the talented Lina LaMora.

 
A call went out to the group to help organize different parts of the celebration. Not wanting to look like a slacker, still being new to the group, I volunteered to handle the cake. I also volunteered my friend Lorine Mason so she wouldn’t feel left out 🙂 Plus she makes killer cakes…
We decided to bake cupcakes.  I cut 30 paper cupcake wrappers using my Sizzix ScoreBoard Cupcake Holder die. Did you know those dies also work great with paper? 

 

The Cupcake Stands (below) and pennants (above) are part of the Sweet Treats Collection and I was dying for the chance to actually use them. 
I cut 17 individual cupcake stands. The bases were decorated with sewing pattern tissue (we are mainly a sewing group) and spring colored toppers.

 A blurry picture of a cupcake sandwich. Still have to try this!

All the cupcakes on their stands- so pretty. Lorine did a great job decorating them and the taste was out of this world. They were lemon…mmmmmm.

 Here’s the group!

 These pennants were so much fun to make and really fast! I stamped the sentiment, added a line of double sided tape on the inside fold, tucked a toothpick in the crease and folded it over. 

 All in all, I can’t wait for the next birthday celebration. Thanks for the warm welcome into the group everyone! You are so inspiring…

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  2. Bea says

    love what you have done with the die Eileen and thanks for telling me you can use paper as I will now use the die more

  3. Kimberly Ylitalo says

    I loved this post, Eileen! Thanks for sharing…and your new SWEET TREATS line (teasing us with your cupcake stand/holder)looks adorable. Congrats on finishing up your next set of designs. You go, Bean! YAY