Although I'm not a huge fan of altered items, it brings me joy to be able to use up some of my scrappy supplies for a non-scrappy purpose. And, I had the opportunity to do this recently for my daughter's fifth birthday party.
First of all, I made cupcake toppers using cardstock, patterned paper, toothpicks, my 2" scalloped circle punch, and my 1 3/4" circle punch.
In Word, using text boxes and shapes, I made circles with different colours and filled them with a saying or a picture I found online. I printed them out and punched them with my 1 3/4" punch. I glued them to a scalloped circle, with a toothpick sandwiched in between.
For the treat bags, I used regular freezer bags (the ones you tie with a twist tie) and followed the same idea, but printed the children's names in the circles and then punched a hole above their names and tied a ribbon to close the bags (I also used a twist tie and covered it with the ribbon, to make sure they'd stay shut.)
And for the craft, we made princesses out of toilet paper rolls.
We covered the toilet paper rolls with patterned paper and cardstock, drew faces and added paper frills, some bling and some ribbon. We made capes out of felt and topped them all off with glittered cardstock crowns.
All in all, an inexpensive and creative party. I think my favourite part was when the girls asked if they could keep the cupcake toppers and take them home. One of them asked me, with wonder in her voice, how I cut them out-- did I have fancy scissors? Sage jumped up from the table and ran to grab her 1.5" scalloped punch, found a scrap of paper and gave them a demonstration of how it worked! So fun!
