Running away? I'll help you pack.: Yellow Minion

Sunday, July 13, 2014

Despicable Me Birthday ... Minion Bucket

I promise this is the last week of the party goodies! LOL I just had so many things I made that I had to break them up in all these post .. I know I just can't help myself.

Next on my list is a Minion Bucket that I made, after the party I carefully cleaned it out and now it hold toys and lego's in Caden's room. I found this idea on Hoyby Crafts, her's was done in felt. I did mine with heavy card stock using my Cricut (Personal Electronic Cutting Machine) and my George and Basic Shapes Cartridge.

What you Need:

Yellow Bucket (found at Dollar Tree)

Googly Eyes

Heavy Card Stock - Black, White, Grey and Red

I cut the circles for the eyes (Large Grey, Medium White and Small Black). I cut a large strip of black to make the eye strap. I cut a moon for the mouth in black. Ovals in white for the teeth, cut them in half to make teeth. Red round oval turned sideways for the tongue. Black rectangles for the hair. I then took my hot glue gun to glue all the pieces onto the bucket.

My Despicable Me Printables I put together click HERE.

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Despicable Me Birthday Done:
Minion Invites
Minion Treat Gift Bags
Minion Paper Cups
Minion Cupcakes (2 Versions)
Minion Cake
Vector's Coconutties and Cookie Robots
Despicable Me Perler Bead Characters
Despicable Me Snack Bar and Food Ideas
Despicable Me Goody Bag Items
Despicable Me Minion Bucket
Box of Shame
Squid Launcher's and Welcome Sign

Monday, July 7, 2014

Despicable Me Birthday ... Snack Bar (Food Ideas & Printable Food Tents

HOLD ON IT'S A LONG POST WITH LOT'S OF IDEAS .. LOL.

Next on the todo list was the food! I had to do a fun sign "Caden's Snack Bar" and served the food in dog bowls like Gru served candy and water to the girls in the first movie. I found the ideas of the snack bar sign and the shrunken moons on One Lucky Pickle, she has some great ideas for a Despicable me party check it out!

I made the sign using my Cricut (Personal Electronic Cutting Machine) and my George and Basic Shapes Cartridge.

Here is how I did the sign:

I made ovals for the minions (cutting off the bottom and sides)

Circles for the eyes and added a google eye

I made a "I" for the eye strip

And made his name in 2 colors to make it pop

Glue it all on with your craft glue.

Board found at the dollar tree.

Close up of the Sign:

For the food I found these simple Food Tents on Family Shopping Bag. I took her template pasted into word doc and added some fun food names using the Minion font I downloaded.

Agne's Caterpillers

(AKA Cheese Puffs)

I'll show the how to do the bucket in a post soon.

Cookie Robots

(aka Chocolate Chip Cookies)

Recipe on this POST HERE

Dr. Nefario's Brew

(aka Sprite and Blue Raspberry juice)

El Machio's Salsa and Chips

(AKA Salsa and Chips)

Gru's Guacamole

(aka Guacamole)

Shrunken Moon Pops

Cake Pops dipped in White Candy Melts

Sprayed with Wilton Silver Color Mist

One can ONLY did half so we had half dark side of the moon ... lol

ONE thing I've learned is on the cake pops it is easiest

to use a box cake and frosting in a can.

NOW you know this kills me but they always turn out best.

Unicorn Fur

(aka Cotton Candy)

Vector's Coconutties

(aka Coconut Cookies)

Recipe found on this POST HERE

Cupcakes 2 Versions

Recipes and how to found on this POST HERE

My AMAZING friend April carved a minion Watermelon

and stuffed it with fun fruit

S'More Bar

My parents have a fire pit at the waterfront

we end ALL parties with a bon fire and S'Mores :)

And for to wipe our mouths and eat the food with

I made Minion Napkin Rings

What you Need:

Yellow Napkins (Dollar Tree)

Blue Utensils (Dollar Tree)

Black Heavy Card Stock (cut into strips)

Googly Eyes (Dollar Tree)

How to make:

My Despicable Me Printables I put together click HERE.

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Sunday, July 6, 2014

Despicable Me Birthday ... Perler Beads

We are still are on the Despicable Me party train! I have a few more things to show you. I loved the Perler Beads I made for Cole's Minecraft party so I went on the search for ideas to do for Caden's Despicable Me party. I found several websites, DeviantART had a bunch of ideas. We kind of just tweaked what we saw and made it work. I have no templates for you, just click on the picture and you can count how many you need (this was the easiest way to figure it out .. at least that is what I found).

Here are a few of my favs

What you Need:

Perler Beads (found at Hobby store, Black are HARD to find Amazon carries)
Perler Bead Board / Paper
Hot Iron

Make your design, CAREFULLY put the paper on top (almost like a wax paper) and put your HOT iron ontop. BECAREFUL not to leave on too long or it will become mushy. I found that I just pressed down and iron like I would a shirt. Once that side is done flip over take off the board put the paper on the backside that is now facing up and do it all over again. Let them cool and they are ready to go. I did a one figure per bag just like this and then I made another one that I made into a necklace.

Here is a How To Do:

Before and Afters

(click on picture as your guide to how to do)

Here's some of the Characters I did:

The Minions

Gru and the Girls (one is missing from this picture)

My Despicable Me Printables I put together click HERE.

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Monday, June 30, 2014

Despicable Me Birthday ... Minion Cake

Next on my list was a Minion Cake, I found this easy design on my bestie's site Betty Crocker ... What I swear I know her after all she's been a part of my baking idea's for years .. LOL. I of course made this cake my own with a few tweaks, I'm all about what I have on hand instead of buying something. I would have done fondant but I was running a bit behind this year but I think it turned out great even with just frosting.

What You Need:

Baked Cake

Frosting (Yellow, Blue and White)

Black Twizzlers's

Black licorice String (I use Wilton)

Mint Patty

Tootsie Roll

Large Chocolate chips (I used Wilton Melts)

Large Candy Eye

Silver Dust

I made my favorite Homemade Yellow Cake mix, always use Cake release it helps so much to get the cake out of the pan. Once the cake has cooled you're going to trim it into your minion shape. I then took a twizzler to map out where I was going to make my overalls. I took my yellow frosting to make the top part of my minion. Then added the blue for the overalls. I added 2 Wilton Melts to make the buttons on the overalls. I added a little licorice strong to make an outline of the overalls. For the glasses I used black twizzlers and filled in with licorice string. For the eye I took a Large tootsie roll and shaped it into a circle. I like mine better then using small and piecing together. The large had the marks to make it look like a real eye glass. For the eye itself I took a mint patty and then I realized I didn't save any WHITE frosting. So I didn't panic I just opened up some oreo cookies and stole the cream frosting and molded it .. lol YUP I so did that! I then added a LARGE candy eyeball. I added a little licorice string for the mouth and hair.

My Despicable Me Printables I put together click HERE.

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Sunday, June 29, 2014

Despicable Me Birthday ... Minion Cupcakes (2 Versions)

Well the party has come and past. Since we live in Washington I'm use to rain. NOW late June almost July I'm usually pretty safe or just a brief sprinkling. But it was like the sky had open up and I was waiting for Noah to come by and pick me up in his ark. YES no lie it poured for like 20 min then we would have 30 min of sun and so it went for 4 hours like this! Then EVERYONE left and sunshine from 7p on! Thank God for a pop up tent and kids who could careless about rain since they would get wet anyways swimming in the lake.

So I made 2 cupcake versions for the party! Both very simple. I made 2 dozen cupcakes using my favorite homemade yellow cake recipe along with my FAVORITE go to Sturdy Buttercream Frosting. I tinted my frosting with Americolor Soft Gel Paste in Lemon Yellow I picked up at Hobby Lobby.

Frost you Cupcakes (Here is a pic of me frosting with the Lemon Yellow color):

First Cupcake's were minion faces. I found a picture of these minion cupcakes on Pinterest, but ONLY a picture no website or person to give credit too. So if you are the owner of this original idea please send me a message.

What you Need:

Yellow Frosted Cupcakes

Mini Marshmallows

Black Food Gel

Frosted your cupcakes with your favorite shade of yellow. I cut my marshmallows in half so they didn't stick up too far. I made some with one eye and some with two eye's. Use your black gel to decorate a mouth, eye glasses and hair. Have fun and make all the faces you can.

Second off was a twinkie minion cupcake. They used a food writer pen to make theirs. I used my frosting gel, which went on great but when assembling I did get a few black finger prints on my cupcakes ... lol. I found SEVERAL versions of this on Pinterest so I'll give credit to Erica's Sweet Tooth one of the sites I found them on.

What you Need:

Yellow Frosted Cupcakes

Twinkies

Black Food Gel (Or Black Food Writer)

Candy Eyeballs

NOW I tried to use my food writer to do these but the Twinkies were too moist and the writer didn't look great so I went with the gel instead. BE-CAREFUL when assembling not to get your finger in the gel or you'll get finger prints on your minion's. I didn't assemble the cupcakes until we got to the party so the Twinkies would stay nice and not get knocked around on the drive to my parents house.

Take your frosted yellow cupcakes. Take your Twinkies cut them in half. I took candy eyeballs and added a little gel to hold them on. I then took the black gel to make the hair, glasses and mouth. Have fun make as many funny faces you want.

Here are minions ready to travel.

I kept them like this until we got to the party

My Despicable Me Printables I put together click HERE.

Don't forget to see the parties I link up to HERE.

Thursday, June 26, 2014

Party coming together!

Well the party is almost here! I'm ahead of the game this time around and hopefully if all works out have everything done Friday so Saturday I won't be running around crazy before the party.

Here is what I have done:

Anti-Gravity Serum

Cookie Robots

Squid Launcher's

Vector's Coconutties

Minion Napkin Ring

Welcome Sign

Still to do:

Cake found on Betty Crocker

Shrunken Moons found on One Lucky Pickle

Minion Bucket found on Hoyby Crafts

Minion Cupcakes found on Foodista

Minion Cupcake #2 found just a picture on Pinterest no link to person

And for the fire time S'More's Bar found on Martie Knows Parties

Have a wonderful weekend!

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Despicable Me Birthday ... Minion Paper Cups

Next on Despicable Me Party to do was the cups! Oh yes we even decorated the paper cups. This was so simple and so cute, I was going to made only the 1 eyeball one's but Rick suggested I do a 2 eyeball version also. I found this great idea on Moms Saves Money.

What you Need:

Yellow Cups (12 Pack Dollar Tree $1)

Google Eyeballs (Dollar Tree $1)

Sharpie (Dollar Tree $1)

Black Card Stock

Craft Glue

I used my cricut to cut out the eyeball strips, I use George & Basic Shapes Cartridge. You could always cut them out. I used the "I" on the size 4 to make mine and black cardstock I had on hand. I used a little craft glue to glue the strap down and add one or two of the eyeballs. I then took my sharpie to make hair and a mouth. YUP that easy and I think it was the cheapest thing I've made!