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Mini Piñata: A Pinterest Challenge Post

Miniature taco and martini pinatas based on a Pinterest pin from Studio DIY | SuzerSpace

Like many projects I try here on SuzerSpace, this mini piñata project has a bit of a twisty road to its start.

In the mornings, I ride a stationary bike and listen to podcasts. A few weeks back, I was listening to one about a woman who wanted miniature piñatas to give away as wedding favors, but she couldn’t find a vendor. She had her wedding without them, but the idea stuck with her, and eventually she figured out how to make them and she launched an Etsy business that let her quit her day job.

That sounded kind of neat, so I click through the show notes to her Etsy store, and sure enough, they are super cute.

And because of the way the internet works, my Pinterest feed flooded with DIY miniature piñata projects.

I don’t know if you know this, but I really like small things. Tiny cars (this is on my bucket list), tiny craft supplies, tiny crafts. Love them all. (I included a standard shot glass in the photo at the top of this post for scale.)

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Birthday Punch Card

Create a personalized birthday punch card so the fun can last all month! | SuzerSpace.com

At SuzerSpace, we celebrate birthdays for the entire month. That let’s the birthday person feel extra special, and it also allows for real life to set in.

We can work special treats, shopping trips and meals in and around work responsibilities, bad weather or just grumpy moods.

A couple of years ago I added in the craft of creating a special punch card, which makes for a ceremonial start to each day, as we “punch in” for the event.

Pictured up top of this post is the remnant of this year’s – we went a little crazy and punched some extra spots, but you get the general idea.

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Baby Shower Cupcake Toppers

Cute baby shower cupcake toppers come together quickly using a SVG file designed for assembly line production | SuzerSpace

I’ve always been the go-to person wherever I work for personal projects. It always seems like someone needs a birthday invitation, a holiday card, and the occasional baby shower decoration. 

But lately, I’ve been making baby shower items for the children of the people I work with. Which means that somehow they have gone from being the cute little kids who sometimes appeared in the office to adults about to have kids of their own. Which is weird, since I haven’t become one bit older!

In July I showed how to make a cake topper using my Silhouette Cameo. In theory, you could use the same process for baby shower cupcake toppers, but there are two challenges – 1) cupcakes are smaller, so you’ll be working with smaller pieces to align and glue together, and 2) while you normally have just one cake, cupcakes are usually served in dozens, which means more toppers to create.

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Birthday Banner Card: A Pinterest Challenge

Birthday banner card featuring knockout letters in flags | SuzerSpace

The purpose of the Pinterest Challenge is to inspire you to actually create something from all of those pins you’ve carefully curated (hoarded?) on to all your boards.

But this month, the challenge turned out to be trying to actually find the tutorial and it’s template from the pin.

I have seen this pin 

quite a bit, and I eventually decided to pin it to my Birthday board. I am very careful to actually vet my pins by clicking through them to make sure they don’t lead to spam, dead links or just something completely useless before I save them.

This one was super tricky. A lot of the versions of this pin are just the one image, “uploaded by user” that lead exactly nowhere. Some lead to websites that feature round ups of cards, some with and some without attribution to the creator.

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Top 5 Back to School Craft Ideas

Back to school craft ideas | SuzerSpace

Nerd alert: I really liked school.

Well, parts of it 😉 .

One of the best was picking out those school supplies. I’m somewhat convinced that my love for paper and pens led me on a long and windy road that ended up with a career in the prepress department of a commercial printer.

These days, just regular notebooks and pencil holders won’t do. You need to step up your back to school craft game to have the best, and I’ve been reading and pinning some really great ideas.

Here are my top five back to school craft ideas for this year:

Here’s an easy tutorial on covering composition books with a printable and washi tape to make a custom notebook.

How about some really custom pencils? Although I’m still obsessed with hand lettering with my brush pens (and iPad), I’m a pencil devotee – as long as the eraser is a good one.

This crayon design is listed as a teacher gift, but how cute would it be to make a child’s name for their art area?

Another teacher gift project that I think would be super cute (and useful) in a homework area at home. I’d fill it with pencils and scissors, not plants.

I don’t remember teacher gifts being a thing when I went to school. In fact, I’m really hoping they weren’t, because if they were, then I totally didn’t participate and that would be kind of rude/sad. But if you’ve suddenly realized that school starts this week (it does in Kansas City) and you aren’t in the mood to craft up a ton of projects, a printable card might be exactly what you need!