Free Baby Shower printables

I am getting ready to do another baby shower! I have been scouring the web for fun ideas and here are two of my favorites that I have come across. Best part, they are free!
Cute, cute theme done in blue or pink! Free printables at Hostess with the Mostess! Infact, she has 12 pages full of baby shower fun!

I'm really liking this one! She's about to Pop! How cute is that?? This may be the one that I do. Not sure yet. It's a double shower and it's in October. Any ideas?

Darling & Free Babyshower Download

Stumbled across this the other day. Though you might like it. Go visit Fresh Linen, (what a great name) to get these goodies!

Oh Baby Centerpiece

I got the idea for this little jem at Real Parties. I took the idea and made it my own. This was a fairly inexpensive little project. I got the letters at Joannes for $1.29. Then my sister-in-law, Kris and Mandee and I got together and modge podged the letters with cute paper.

Now, I have to say, I wanted to make this in fun pastel prints so it would match the shower. But the mommy-to-be is a Mickey Mouse addict and her nursery is in Mickey Mouse. So Mandee suggested making it as a gift, so she could put it in the baby's room! Great idea! And that is the explanation for the dark colors!

I should have taken pictures of each step. Sorry! I used a 2x4 for the base and cut it 1 and 1/2 feet long. Then I sanded it a little bit. I cut the dowels, and I didn't measure them. I just cut 3 of each. Then I used a 1/4 inch drill bit to drill the holes. I laid each of the letters out and marked where I wanted to put each hole.

When you finish with that, put our dowels in and use a hammer to get a tight fit. Then I painted everything black and dry brushed a layer of red over the top of the base. I just used hot glue to attach the letters.

Super cute!!

Pinwheel Centerpieces

Our theme for this baby shower was spring.

Lot's of pastel colors,flowers and pinwheels.

Look closely at the table, there are tons of little 2 inch pinwheels on the table.

We had planned on making these for napkin rings,

but we ran out of time, so we just scattered them on the table.

It looked really cute.

The tins were empty Stephen's Cocoa Honeyville Farms smoothie mix cans.

We just modge podged coordinating paper to the tins.

So cute and easy!

To make the little pinwheels we cut the paper to 2 inch squares.

Then simply cut the four corners in at about 1 inch deep.

Then you fold the four corners down and glue them.

We used buttons to put at the center.

The big pinwheel is a 6 inch square.

We attached flat thumbtacks to the back.

We painted regular #2 pencils, for the stick.

Stick your thumbtack in the eraser and your done!

They are functional and spin.

Add some craft foam in the bottom of the tins

and top that with some shredded paper!!

These could be used for a variety of things.

Heck, my kids love pinwheels.

It's a great afternoon craft!

Cupcake Toppers Perfect for a Baby Shower

These were super easy to make. All I did was google, cute baby clipart, and you will get tons of images to choose from. I then just pasted them into word and formatted the picture so that we could write around it. We used the phrase, A Little Princess to Love and Baby Love. We used a 2 & 3/4 inch circle punch to cut them out. We also cut some cute polka dot print paper to go on the back. Attach it with glue dots around your sucker stick and your done!

Onesie Baby Shower Banner

This banner if stinkin' cute! If I do say so myself. My big contribution to decorations, came in the making of this banner. I was having a hard time coming up with something that I liked. I googled banners, looked at banners on etsy and was in tears last Tuesday, because nothing I did looked right. I saw some banners on onesies and so I looked up onesies templates and thought they were cute. Mandee and I were out shopping for the shower on Wednesday and I mentioned having seen cute banners using a onesie template and she said, "How cute would it be to use real onesies and make a banner?" A stroke of genius on Mandees part. She's the brains in this operation!!

So we went and bought 2 packages of onesies, which makes this banner a bit expensive. We got them a little bit cheaper by going to Ross. Mandee found the cute pink paper for the cupcake picks and we went with that for the banner. I printed up the cute BABY GIRL on the computer and cut them out. Added a flower onto each with a button and you have the cutest banner ever!! You could get really crazy with the embellishments, but we thought simple was better. Mandee covered each clothespin with ribbon to bring in some more color. What's fun about this, is the mom to be gets to take home the onesies!!! A present and a decoration all in one!

I can't find the actual website that the scallop template came from. All I can find is the link for the download, here. The flower template is found, here.

Baby Shower Freebies

Mandee and I are in the midst of planning a baby shower for my sister-in-law. We have scoured the Internet looking for ideas and have found a lot of really great stuff. We've also found a lot of great FREE stuff! Doesn't get much better than that. I had saved a bunch of stuff in my favorites and before I erase it all, I want to share it with you.

Plan Your Baby Shower ~ They have darling invitations. You download them and customize them to your event. 5 cute girl ones, 4 cute boy ones, and 2 cute neutral cards! They also have some fun games that you can download.

HP Creative Studio ~ This place if full of cute invitations, but not many for baby showers. They do have a couple cute ones. This is a great sight to check out to the full extent.

Plan the Perfect Baby Shower ~ They have some cute ones you can print off and and fill in. They also have some cute frames that you can use. Download as a picture and insert into your publishing program and insert a text box and type up your invite.

Parents has a great Sugar and Spice baby shower theme, that you could do with printable invitations. They also have a huge list of themed showers, that you could check out.

This post on Tip Junkie has lots of ideas.

Isn't the Internet great? And isn't it great that people are willing to share? Our little shower is Saturday. Because we don't want any peeking, we will post pictures and give you all the lovely details next week! Have a FaBuLoUs weekend!

Dang Cute Diaper Cake

This was Brandys and My Craft on Thursday. Since her 3 year old son is in preschool on Tuesdays and Thursdays we both just have one at home so we get together and do a craft of some sort. I had a baby shower this weekend so we made a diaper cake. It is almost midnight so I hope the directions are clear!!!!!!

Step one: Tightly roll diaper and put a rubber band around it. Little by little add diapers to the same rubber band until you can't add any more. If you have to, make several clusters to make one layer. Keep adding diapers until you have three different sizes of circles.
Step 2: Once you have all three layers made and they are nice and tight place them one on top of each layer.
Wrap each layer with ribbon, also have seen them with each layer wrapped in receiving blanket for a fondent look. Both ways are very cute!!!!
Finished product. A great decoration and a great use for the baby!! Brandy made one for me and I didn't use those diapers until I really had to. They are so cute!