Another day, another set of baby shower invitations

Saturday we got together with some friends to say goodbye to the Sharpes who have been our friends since a few months after we moved to Columbus 5 1/2 years ago. I can't help feeling like it's the end of an era for us. Of course the boys stayed up late afterwards playing videogames one last time (and sadly that's when we realized we needed a picture of the group, but it was too late for the whole group). While the boys played I headed home to finish another set of baby shower invitations. I got the idea for these invitations from a post about how to create a simple mini-album on the Simple Scrapbooks blog. You can find the directions there. I wanted the invitation to be a little bigger so I cut the patterned paper for the cover into three 4" strips instead of four 3" strips. This was one of those porjects that was much cuter in my mind than when I was finished, but maybe I lost perspective after spending so much time with them. Here's the front.

The first page
And the inside.

And since it looks like I'll be going to a lot of baby showers, I made a new batch of onesies. Since I love children's literature I like to give books as gifts, but it's fun to include a onesie with the character from the book on it. I just scan the character in, clean the graphic up and then print it on transfer paper and iron it on. It would totally break copyright law to sell them, but they're easy to make for personal use, and I think it's even more fun to make t-shirts with your kid's favorite book characters when your kids are a little older.