The Circle of Lifestyle Crafts

So I wanted to check in with you and show you a really fun project that I had to throw together for our annual Cub Scout Blue & Gold Banquet.

Yes.
I am a Cub Scout Den Leader.

(I'll pause while you laugh, aloud.)

Regardless, it's my job.  And I do it.
I certainly don't claim to do it well.
Nor do I claim to do it with a lot of campfires or knots.  Because I am horribly adverse to all things "boy" and outdoors.

But the boys do cut and glue things a lot.  And we have had more than one meeting involving frosting.

This year, I was put in charge of decorating.

Did someone say decorating?  I can probably handle that.

That is until...I went out of town right before the banquet.  And of course my IMPECCABLE time management skills meant that I left it to the VERY last minute.

OH NO!  I had exactly 24 hours to decorate a dinner.

Enter my Lifestyle Crafts Epic Letterpress.  Remember how I got this awesome new tool?  What a lifesaver it was!

I decided that I didn't want to use the standard crepe paper draped from the ceiling.  What to do to fill the space?

Have you seen it when big circles are suspended on yarn, ribbon, or fishing line?  I actually used them to decorate my daughter's birthday party last year.  And I LOVED how they turned out.

What I DIDN'T love?
How long it took to make them.

And I even bought a circle punch.  Which saved oodles of time over hand-cutting the circles.  But they were still a lot more time consuming than I planned.

But my new Lifestyle Crafts Epic tool cut them out in no time flat.  Particularly because the paper I was using was really thin and I could cut 2 pieces at a time.

I also decided to use 4 different sizes of circles, so I could cut several out at the same time.

I also used some letter die-cuts to cut out the initials of the Boy Scouts.

Look how cute those great big circles are!

Granted, it's a blue and gold dinner.  So there's a really nasty brick wall in the background.  And I had a total of $30 to decorate and buy tablecloths.  Whoa!  Big spender.

Oh, and PS....if you run out of rubber cement and think "I'll just use regular white glue this time."

Don't.

Wrinkles will ensue, and you will be sad.

Good thing 8 year olds could care less!!

I was SOOO grateful to be able to cut out over 50 circles in just a few short minutes.  And I was able to scoot over to the dinner and decorate.  No one knew I hadn't been cutting for weeks in advance.  SHHHHH!!!  I'm TOTALLY a plan ahead type girl.

(and also.....know what's blue and gold?  M&M's!  Score!)


Do you wanna be able to save your event at the last second?????

Don't forget:Lifestyle Crafts is offering Less Cake {more frosting} readers 

a 20% discount on any purchases made with the code:

BLOGLESSCAKE

That's ANYTHING in the store. You can get 20% off the cutting dies and letterpress, and ink and even an Epic machine of your very own!  Just make sure to put that code in at check out!

(good only until the end of March 2011!)




*Lifestyle Crafts supplied me with an Epic Letterpress machine and some product to try.  All the opinions expressed are completely my own. *