Baby Boy Shower Decorations

Welcome a new little baby boy into the world with these cute Baby Boy Shower Decorations.  These invitations and decorations make throwing a baby shower easy and inexpensive.  If you're having a little girl, simply change the paper so you use more pink and purple hues rather than blues and oranges.

Materials:

• Echo Park All About a Boy Collection
• Letterpress Starter Kit
• Letterpress Ink: Orange
• Letterpress wipes (for clean-up)
• Letterpress printing plates: Petite (it's a boy), Spooked (chevron)
• Letterpress paper: Extra Thick Square White (for mobile base), No.10 Cards
• Punches Dies: Circle, Pennants (for mobile)
• Nesting Dies: Circles (for mobile base)
• 4x4 Die: Feathers (for cards)

Instructions:

1. Design the card.
   
   
    
2. Remove the adhesive backing sheet from plates and place them in their positions, sticky side up.
   
   
    
3. Close the lid and press. Now we have our plates in position and ready for ink.
   
   
    
4. All we need is just a small dot of ink. I did not add more until I had 3 cards done.
   
   
    
5. Ink up the plates. (Oops, I was trying with navy ink first but decided to use orange instead.
   
   
    
6. Close lid and run through your die cut machine.
   
   
    
7. I die cut a bunch of feathers with Echo Park All About a Boy paper and did a little mix & match. Like all other Echo Park paper, the colors in this collection work very well together. I love that they added a woodgrain pattern in the cheerful blues/oranges combo.
   
   
    
8. Adhere the feathers to cards.
   
   
    
9. Circle Punches Die and Pennant Punches Die were used for the mobile.
   
   
   
   
    
10. I die cut a circle from Square Extra Thick Paper – White (5.25” x 5.25”) to be the mobile base. Sew the shapes together and thread them to the base.