Gender Reveal Party

I had the honor of helping my friend Shannon with her gender reveal party this past weekend! Shannon is pregnant with her 3rd baby, a much welcomed pregnancy after her and her husband had been trying for over a year and a half. They have two wonderful boys and would love to have a another boy, but would be equally happy with a girl as well. They thought it would be fun to host a gender reveal party and find out the sex of the baby among family and friends. I was so excited when Shannon asked me to be the "revealer." I created a set of pink and blue crochet owl hats and diapers that would dress a stuffed animal that Shannon provided.

After her 20 week ultrasound, she delivered the sealed envelope from the doctor with the sonogram photo inside to my house. I dressed the stuffed bear in the appropriate color and wrapped it in a mystery box :) This is a cardboard box I got from Michaels, decorated with question mark cut-outs from my Cricut, and tied closed with pink and blue ribbon.

Shannon is also a crafty woman. She has a knack for discount shopping at places like Goodwill and Craigslist where she finds great deals on old furniture and home decor and refurbishes and up-cycles them. I told her she needs her own craft blog! So I am so excited to show you pictures from her fabulous party.

She went with a pink and blue owl theme, so I knew I had to give her my pink and blue granny squares which I made into bunting that hung over her food table.

You can find the FREE pattern for my Owl Granny Squares on my guest post over at Petals to Picots.

I also made her a set of 24 owl cupcake toppers which ended up being perfect for all the yummy goodies she had. You can download my FREE owl cupcake toppers HERE.

Check out all the other goodies and creative ideas Shannon came up! She is one talented lady.

Pink and Blue Chocolate Covered Pretzels

Her"she"y and Hers"he"y Chocolate Bars

Blue and Pink Lemonade

Voting Chalkboard

The cupcake topper printables also worked well on top of empty spice jars that she filled with jelly beans. Everyone guessed how many beans were in each jar and whoever was the closest, won the jar! 

I made her the voting cards and food tags as well, but unfortunately can't give those printables away since I am pretty sure the images used on them are copyrighted :|

So now the moment you all have been waiting for...The Gender Reveal!!

It's a..........

GIRL!!!!

Here is a video of the reveal!

Congrats Shannon! I am so excited and happy for you and your family! Thank you for letting me be such a special part of your party!

UPDATE!!!
She is here! Baby Greta Marie was born on 12-30-12 at 4:14pm weighing in at 7lbs 1oz and 20 inches long! Her two big brothers are taking wonderful care of her already and the entire family is over the moon in love and so excited to be a family of 5! Congrats Erickson Family! She is absolutely perfect and such a cutie!