DIY Baby Shower Invitations Instructions

DIY baby shower invitations instructions

What You’ll Need

• Heavy card stock
• Craft paper
• Vintage baby photos
• Washi tape
• Glue dots or hot glue
• Baby-inspired stickers
• Baby-inspired scrapbooking supplies
• Hot glue gun and sticks

Let’s Do It

• Keep in mind that your invitations are like snowflakes–no two are the same!
• Cut card stock into desired shape and size
• Score, crease and fold invitation in half
• Use craft paper to mat invitations
• Create embellishments in the shape of your card (like the baby bottle)
• Use vintage photos or scrapbooking supplies to decorate the front
• Add washi tape for a pop of color on photographs
• Use hot glue to secure heavier items
  

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DIY Onesie Baby Shower

onesie baby shower bunting

What You’ll Need

• Plain white onesies. You will need enough to create the desired length bunting and one extra for each guest to decorate
• Blue fabric markers
• Ribbon
• Buttons
• Scissors
• Needles and thread
• Twine
• Clothes pins

Let’s Do It

Garland

• Cut a piece of twine to your desired length and hang on the wall
• Design the onesies you want to display (see instructions below)
• Secure onesies on the twine with clothes pins, spaced equally apart

Onesies

• Distribute a onesie to each guest
• Use fabric markers to create designs and illustrations on the onesie
• Use ribbon to make bow-ties and faux pockets
• Attach desired accessories, such as buttons and ribbon to the onesie with needle and thread. This will prevent materials from separating from the fabric (and avoid a choking hazard)
• Present the mom-to-be with a new wardrobe for her lil’ peanut
  

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Baby Shower Ideas For Placesettings

onesie baby shower place setting

What You’ll Need

• Assorted onesies
• Diaper or safety pins
• Baby Bottle Piña Coladas

Let’s Do It

• Lay out your onesies like placemats
• Fold napkins like diapers and pin with a diaper pin
• Fill baby bottles with our Baby Bottle Piña Coladas recipe and set out for guests

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THIS BLOGGER TRIED THIS. MOST GUEST DIDN'T KEEP THE ONESIE CLEAN.

SO NEXT TIME I WILL HAVE THEM PUT THE ONESIE IN A LARGE GIFT BAG I PROVIDE, BEFORE THEY EAT. MAYBE IT DEPENDS ON WHAT YOU ARE SERVING???? THE ONESIE PLACE SETTING IS A GIFT FOR NEW MOMMY.

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Pina Coladas Recipe

piña coladas

What You’ll Need

Makes 4 servings

• ½ cup rum, optional
• ½ cup* coconut cream (available at most grocery or liquor stores)
• ¼ cup coconut milk, optional* (available at most grocery or liquor stores)
• ¼ cup pineapple chunks
• 6 cups ice
• 4 glass baby bottles HIGHBALL GLASSES
• WIDE straws so drink doesn't get stuck. 

Let’s Do It

• Place all ingredients in a large blender and blend at high speed until completely *if not using coconut milk, add another ¼ cup of coconut cream
• Pour into baby bottles (or tall Highball glasses) and serve with straw
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No Bake Mini Eclairs Recipe

BABY SHOWER IDEA CAN BE A GREAT CROWD PLEASER  anytime !

no bake éclairs in baby food jars recipe

makes 12–15 servings

baby food jar

what you’ll need

• 12–15 baby food jars, washed and dried
• scissors

no bake éclairs & assembly

what you’ll need

• 2 packages Jell-O Instant Sugar Free & Fat Free Vanilla Pudding
• 3 c skim milk
• 1 – 9 oz container Cool Whip Free
• 1 box Honeymaid graham cracker crumbs
• 1 – 16 oz container Duncan Hines Creamy Homestyle Classic Chocolate Frosting
• 2 piping bags or resealable bags

let’s do it

• mix pudding with milk
• mix Cool Whip into pudding
• add pudding mixture to piping bag or resealable bag (and cut corner off)
• line bottom of jars with graham cracker crumbs (about ¼” thick)
• pipe pudding mixture into jars (about 1″ thick)
• continue layering with graham cracker crumbs and pudding mixture until just below top of jar
• put chocolate icing in second piping bag or resealable bag and fill jars to top
• attach lids and refrigerate 3 hours (or overnight) before serving

let’s do it

• print boy or girl lid labels
• cut out labels and adhere to lid
• CherylStyle Baby Jar Lid  (or download this version for a girl!)
• http://www.cherylstyle.com/showcase/no-bake-mini-eclairs/
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• 8 1/2 x 11 sheets of sticker paper (or plain paper and tape)

Gourmet Ice Cream Bar

how to set up a self-serve gourmet ice cream bar

what you’ll need

• ice cream
• gourmet ice cream fixings (think fresh-chopped cherries and peaches, walnuts and honey, and crushed graham crackers, vs. the same old Hershey’s syrup and whipped cream)
• metal cupcake cooking pan
• assorted glass apothecary jars or see-through canisters
• mason jars or other small containers
• food stands or pedestals
• serving trays, serving bowls and spoons
• tablecloth or runner
• cardboard food labels on sticks (optional)

PRE SCOOP IS THE KEY TO SAVING TIME AND MESS

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let’s do it

1. I scream…you scream…

Start by pre-scooping individual-sized servings of ice cream, then refreeze for a minimum of two hours so they won’t melt as your guests line up at the ice cream bar. (The best way to do this is to put the scoops in a metal cupcake pan to help keep them separated.)

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2. set the table

Next, line your table with a tablecloth or runner (think outside-the-box here—even a repurposed shower curtain or swath of un-hemmed fabric will do the trick) and use stands to create height variations on your display. Think upside-down bowls, ceramic pots or serving trays from the back of your cabinet here. Use whole versions of your toppings (uncut peaches, cherries, or unshelled nuts are great) to decorate with by placing them in your see-through canisters, allowing their eye-pleasing natural beauty to shine through.

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3. display the toppings

Right before you are ready to serve, pour the sliced fruit and other toppings into clear glass containers such as mason jars and add your labels and spoons, so that guests know which items are fair game for the feast.

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4. serve it up!

Finally, transfer the ice cream scoops to chilled serving bowls and then get out of the way so your guests can dig in.

Fish Tacos Spiced with Lettuce Wraps Recipe

spicy fish tacos with lettuce wraps recipe

makes 4 servings

• 4 fillets mahi
• 4 teaspoons chili powder
• 4 teaspoons cumin
• 4 teaspoons cayenne pepper
• 2 yellow onions, diced
• 4 cloves garlic, diced
• 4 jalapeños, diced
• 2 limes, halved
• 5 tomatoes, diced
• ¾ cup green olives, diced (save juice from jar)
• 3 tablespoons radishes, julienned
• 1 head leaf lettuce
• pico de gallo

let’s do it

• rinse and pat dry mahi
• mix chili powder, cumin, and cayenne pepper in medium bowl
• rub fish with spices and marinate 3 hours
• preheat oven to 350 degrees
• sauté onions, garlic, and jalapeños
• squeeze lime juice over sauté pan
• pour onion mix into 9″ x 11″ pan, set aside
• dice tomatoes and green olives and add to sauté pan
• cook until soft, then pour over onion mix
• add small amount of liquid from olive can to sauté pan
• sear fish in sauté pan
• place seared fish in 9″ x 11″ pan
• sprinkle radishes over fish
• bake 15 minutes
• slice fish and put 3-4 slices in lettuce leaf
• sprinkle pico de gallo over fish tacos