Mini cards- for kid birthdays

I love it when a card comes together in a time of need. :) My kids have the joy of going to many kid parties and I used to make full size cards. Awhile ago I was talking to another crafter and she said that she makes small card for kids parties. My thought was what a good idea...the kids don't care about the cards they normally want the toys. :) So, I have been doing more small cards for the kids gifts.

Well, today I was scrambling to get the gift together and I realized that I had run out of cards and not made time to make more. I jump into my craft room and found the nicely stamped and glittered lion and green square. I cut the paper for the card and done!

I was so glad that I had envelope still made :) I used my Cricut to make them a long time ago when I started making the small cards. 

Here is a regular sized card and the small size for kids parties.

NinjaGo Sleepover

with only 30 hours to plan and execute...Saturday we had our son's 8th birthday party. He wanted a NinjaGo sleepover. So, around 5pm, on Saturday, 8 boys arrived for a Ninja adventure!
I had planned games but was surprised how they entertained themselves most of the night.

The cake: Two Lego heads... One with the Ninja head gear and one yellow head. We made these with the Stand -up Jack-o-lantern Pan from Wilton. The yellow head we added a lg marshmallow cut in half.

The Juice packets- Found this supper cool cupcake image that I taped to the juice packet.: http://foodartparty.blogspot.com/2010/08/ninja-cupcake-wrappers.html

Treats table:

• The rice crispy treats Sushi (found on many sites)- Fruit by the foot, Swedish fish and rice crispy treats
• Marshmallow White Ninjas (my hubby's idea)- yellow and dark chocolate icing (Kids LOVED and supper simple)
• Chocolate covered Fortune cookies: http://vixenmade.blogspot.com/2012/03/ninjago-party-feature.html My daughter (almost 5) did these in a few mins! They looked great on the table and were a lot of fun for the kids to eat and read their fortunes!
• The normal veggies, fruit and chips also offered and was proud to see the kids picking veggies over other treats! (one little tip- While we waited for friends to arrive and for things to start I allowed them to eat  the Veggies and Fruit  first :) )

We had clues for them to find the headbands and the Ninjago booster packets for every boy. They had fun searching for them! We had other games but the boys mostly wanted to play with the Nerf  guns, Beyblades and Wii so I just let them enjoy what they wanted to do.

It seemed that all the boys had fun! It was the first sleepover for all the boys to sleep over so we felt good about that :)