The Luau

It's been a crazy summer for our family. Busy with chores, gardening, plus all the kids' activities. A couple weeks ago, my hubby went on his annual "mancation" with the guys out to Colorado where they go dirt biking up in the mountains for 3 or 4 days. While he was gone, my 10-year-old daughter had this ingenious idea that she wanted to have an "end-of-the-summer" luau slumber party. I sighed. And then I sighed again.

One thing that Craiger and I decided a long time ago was that we wanted our kids to feel like they had the freedom to have their friends over any time. That was something our parents did for us, and we remember well how that made us feel. We, too, strive to create a safe, peaceful environment within our home...a safe haven not oly for our own kids, but our kids' friends. So, I said yes. We had 9 little people at our house and it was honestly a blast!!

We got out the tiki torches, had a barbeque, and got out the cattle tank for swimming (it was clean water...no way would we even think about swimming in something gross). The girls had fun, and so in order to keep the peace with our boys, we had to invite a couple of their good friends as well.

We had fun planning, and my daughter wanted to make all the invitations. Here is what we came up with:

It was a spin-off of something I had seen at Andrea Walford's website. You can see the actual card here.

So, then after we were finished with the invites, I wanted to make one a bit different. So here another take on a great card:

It's difficult to see in the photo, but the letters are chipboard. We sponged them using craft ink, and then sprinkled iridescent ice EP on them. It really made them pop. Hope you enjoyed seeing them!!

TTFN,

Debi