A Mustache Baby Shower
Thursday, July 5, 2012 at 10:02PM 
I'm so excited to finally post about this baby shower my friend Jen and I threw for our friend Lindsay. Jen came up with the idea of making it a "Mustache Theme" since the baby's father, Adam, is somewhat of a mustache enthusiast; and since the expected baby is a boy. Makes total sense of course. I designed the invitations, Adam (aka Hobo Press) printed them, and Jen sewed the mustaches. We used 140 pound Whip Cream paper and the Nighshift Blue envelopes from French Paper Co. The invites and the envelopes were both letter pressed.
For the party Jen and I made a flag banner using the invite colors. Adam screen printed some mustaches on some of the flags, of course. It looked so awesome I still haven't been able to take it down. We had mustache shaped flat breads, mustache decorated cupcakes, mustache cookies, croissants, a truly delicious French toast casserole that Jen made, and of course, fancy drinks, such as citrus infused water and Bellinis. Oh, and we set Pandora to the Pink Martini station. So it was all very fancy ...but not really, just fun.
We had some laughs playing the "Pin the Mustache on the Baby" game. The Bellinis might have helped, I don't know. We also did the traditional opening of the gifts. I gave Lindsay this awesome mustache from LittleAlouette (thank you so much for the speedy shipping!) And when the party was over everybody got to take home a little mustache decorated pouch filled with mustache cookies. So, all in all I had too much fun with this baby shower, but, I don't ever want to cut anything in the shape of a mustache again!
Reader Comments (6)
Oh my goodness! The invitation you designed is so beautiful. Did you draw all that type by hand? I can't get over how good it is. WOW!
I love drawing my work but it never seems to transfer from paper and pencil to digital that well. Any pointers or tips you could share?
Hi Jamie! Thank you so much for the compliments! Hand lettering is something I really like and want to learn more about. I have no idea how it's really supposed to be done, but I can tell you how I did it– I drew it at actual size with a pencil, I scanned it, and then... I traced over the whole thing in Illustrator. I made sure I kept things loose and followed the imperfections of the sketch. I think ideally you would trace over it with a Micron pen, hi-res scan it and be done. But I don't draw, so I didn't feel comfortable enough doing that. It did take a long time to plug all those points in Illustrator, partly because I work with a 4 year old squeezed in the chair with me and a 6 month old on my lap. If you have the skills and want to keep your sanity you should try a Micron on Graphics 360, and skip tracing in Illustrator. I hope this helps and that you don't think I'm totally nuts!
Thanks for your response! You have mad Illustrator skills! The pen tool is tricky enough but with kids on your lap, wow! I think I'm going to give that paper and shot and see how it turns out. Thanks again. I can't wait to see more of your work in the future.
Hi, just found this through Pinterest and I had to tell you that I am in awe at the beauty of that invitation! Great job with all the fun details of this very personalized party.
Is there anyway to order these invites from you?
Hi Alison, actually we've been getting some requests for these, so we're in the process of getting set up so that we can take orders. When would you need them?