18th BIRTHDAY BALLOONS

An 18th birthday should be special.  My friends granddaughter loved looking at the old photo albums so it had to be about pictures and what birthday would be complete without balloons.   So I scanned in a photo of the birthday girl from age 1 - 18   and mounted 17 of them on  30 inch dowels with  matching balloons and curly ribbon.   I had one   3.5 ft  balloon in the back which held the gift bag with an album to put all the pictures.  They were secured to the little gift boxes which had candies on top.

SMALL GIFT IDEAS

I am sure like myself you have that special person that does nice things for you, be it a neighbor, friend or co-worker, that you need that small gift for , that isn't the regular plant, flowers  or candies.  My neighbor is just that person. I wanted to give her something a bit different and I knew she loved the flavoured Keurig coffee. In Montreal, it is very hard to find the pods sold separately but I did manage to buy her some and made a special box for them.  I used the box maker on my Crafters Companion  Ultimate Pro and I cut coffee cup shapes out of the front of the boxes.  I then made her a coffee card using an Art Impression girl friend stamp.