Valentine's Day Themed Party + Freebie Organizer Tutorial

 New Year's Day had passed! Now what?! We look forward to next month...

 February, a LOVE month, HEART month, it's Valentine's Day month.

I want to share this Valentine's Day themed Sweet 16th Exploding Box Invitation Jinky's Crafts designed for one of our clients.

These Valentine's Day Theme Invitations exude romance, elegance and love. The red and white color combination looks really great. This box explodes when your guest opens it.  And it reveals 4 panels where you party invitation wordings or photos are. In the middle is a 3-tier cake with shiny satin ribbon trimming. There's a #16 cut-out that serves as your cake topper and heart cut-out pop-up floaties that dance and surrounds your cake. 

This Red and White Sweet 16 invitation design is very unique.  With the intricate details, your guests will see you are setting the tone of your Sweet16 party. 

This invitation is designed for Sweet 16, but it would look great for any teen party theme.  Like Bat Mitzvah Invitation,  Mis Quince/ Quinceañera Invitaciones/ Recordatorios, 18th Birthday/debut. Of course, this would also be great for Weddings, Baby Shower, Graduation...  You name it. 

Before you go, we have a New Year Freebie gift for you here @ Jinky's Crafts. We all know that we are in the mood for organizing after New Year's Day. So here's a File Folder Organizer w/ Drawer Tutorial for you. Free.

Download Here for the Step-by-Step DIY organizer tutorial. 

Tiffany Inspired Invitation Box

Tiffany inspired wedding invitations have been quite popular for a few years. This Tiffany inspired Exploding Box Invitation is very unique, elegant and sophisticated in the way of representing luxury. 

This Tiffany box or Pop-Up Wedding invitation has four panels that explode and reveals a 3-tier cake that mimics a Tiffany Cake. The paper 3-tier cake is decorated with silver bling and satin ribbon and is surrounded with pop-up cut-outs elements. The 4 panels of the Tiffany box contains the invitation wordings or information. 

This Tiffany Blue Exploding Box Wedding Invitation can be customize for Quinceañera or Mis 15, Sweet 16 Party, 18th Birthday or debut, Bat Mitzvah and Graduation Invitation. 

This will be great as Tiffany inspired Gift Boxes or Gift Favor as well. 

Thanks for stopping by today. Please check our Facebook gallery or portfolio for more invitation or gift favor design ideas. 

3D PAPER FLOWER EMBELLISHMENTS

Hello everyone. I would like to thank those of you who took the time to email me saying that they missed me.  And that I inspired you with my creations. As much as I love to share crafting tips, projects and tutorials on my blog, sometimes there just isn't enough time. I have orders for Custom Exploding Box Invitations I need to fill. So, I do hope you understand my long absence in the blogosphere. 

Today, I would like to share tips on how to make your gift boxes, place cards or escort cards more presentable. It's a little detail, that will let your recipients know that you really put an effort into the gifts or party decorations. 

The first flower is the Begonia flower. If you have a die cut or electronic cutting machine, this is very easy to make. Just download the file and assemble the flower. You can ink the edges or distress it, it is up to you. You can find my old 3D Paper Flower Tutorial here. 

These paper Begonia Flowers are a great addition to your DIY Wedding Favor Boxes, Quinceanera Gift Favor or Recordatorios, or simply use it to adorn your Place Cards or Escort Cards. 

The second Flower is a Rolled Paper Rosette. I LOVE love this paper rosettes! This 3D flower makes those ordinary escort cards extra ordinary. I think this is great for those Sweet 16th Escort cards or Quinceanera place cards/escort cards. 

You can check my previous Valentine project where I linked the tutorial on how to make paper rosettes here.

Thank you very much for stopping by today. I will continue to come up with new ideas on how to embellish your projects. Also, I am working on the 3rd Edition of my Christmas E-book, I would love to know what you would like me to include this time. Please feel free to leave me a comment and I promise to keep your input in mind for the Christmas E-book. 

Jinky's Crafts 1st Anniversary Blog Candy

Hi everyone and welcome to Jinky's Crafts 1st Anniversary celebration Blog Candy. I can not believe it has been a year. I have learned so much since I started blogging. I have had a lot of fun and met cool Crafty ladies along the way. To all my followers and subscribers and to Crafter's Companion USA who first trusted me to be part of their awesome Design Team, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

In celebration of Jinky's Crafts 1st year Anniversary, I have prepared a Blog Candy contest for my dear followers, subscribers, guests and FB Fans.

Cool prizes up for grabs!

Third Prize :  Fabric Flower Tutorial 

Note: ( If you had already purchased these tutorials, you can check my ETSY SHOP and choose one Fabric  Flower Tutorial  as your prize).      

Second Prize : 12 Days of Christmas Handmade Crafts PDF E-Book Tutorial

Note: ( If you had already purchased these tutorials, you can check my ETSY SHOP and choose one Tutorial  as your prize).       

First Prize: Pop-Up Purse w/ 3-Tier Cake Tutorial + Exploding Box Invitation w/ 3-Tier Cake.

           Note: ( If you had already purchased these tutorials, you can check my ETSY SHOP and choose 2  Tutorials as your prize).         

To be eligible to win ( please do any or all of the following )

1.   FIRST CHANCE to win - Follow this blog (select the "Follow" button to the top left) .

2.   SECOND CHANCE to win - Leave a comment under this post by May 31st, about how you would use these projects by May 31st.

3.   THIRD CHANCE to win!! Tweet, Send an Email to Friends, Blog about or Post on your Facebook about this giveaway.  (Just let us know you’ve done this by leaving another comment below this post with a link to your Twitter/Facebook post, Blog entry, or copy the email message you sent to your friends.)


The winner will be announced on Week1 of June.

Thank you for stopping by. Hope you have time to play along! 

Pop-Up Purse Invitation

Why are invitation important? A lot of people take invitations for granted. They have this misunderstanding  that  it is not an important part in planning a party because it is usually gets thrown away after the event. What most people do not know is, invitations sets the tone for your event/party. If you want to give your guest an impression and build excitement for what they should expect from the event, you have to pay attention to your party invitations. You build a good impression before the party not after the party.

My newest designed Pop-Up Purse Invitation is an example of setting a tone to your party with style. If your guests receive this stylish party invite, you will give them an idea of what theme you are going to have at your party. Your guests will be elated to receive a party invitation that is well-thought and well-crafted like this Pop-Up Purse Invite.

So how did I come up with this design? Since I have been designing Exploding Boxes with 3-Tier Cake invitations recently. I had this idea to combine all the techniques I knew and created this Pop-Up Purse Invitation. As you know, I love to make 3 dimensional projects. So this one is no exception.

When your party guests receive these invites, they might think it is just a Purse, but when they open it, a 3-Tier Cake will Pop-Up! How cool is that?

 I love the Hot Pink and Black combination. I am satisfied and happy with the final look of my 3-tier Paper Cake and the Eiffel Tower is a perfect addition to my design. This Pop-Up Purse with 3-Tier Cake Invitation is perfect for a Bridal Shower party, Sweet 16th, Quiceañera, 18th Birthday or any other party event.

The complete Pop-Up Purse with 3-Tier Cake is now available on my ETSY shop.

Thanks a lot for stopping by. Please leave me a comment below, I love reading comments!

Turquoise Blue and Black Exploding Invitation Box

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had  a wonderful Mother's Day weekend. 

This past weekend, one of my client who bought my Exploding Invitation Box Tutorial asked me if I can help her with the supplies in making Exploding Box. She said, she like the Turquoise Blue and black combination. So, here's the design I created for that color combination - Turquoise Blue and Black Exploding Invitation Box!

I always love Turquoise blue and black. Who doesn't? I think the combination of this 2 colors looks really great. I just finished 2 orders of this Quinceañera Exploding Box invitations. The first one had a Black and Red combination and the last one was Burgundy and Black. They were both beautiful. 

This Invitation Exploding box is a unique way to send out a message of your upcoming party. It is great for Quinceañera, Sweet16, 18th Birthday, Bridal Shower, Wedding, Anniversary or any party occasion. I have a tutorial on how to make this unique party box on my Etsy Shop. The tutorial is not limited for invitation purposes. This Exploding box can also be used as your scrapbook pages, gift box or gift favors.

Who would not love to attend a party after receiving an invitation as detailed as this one?