Despicable Me Party

This year we celebrated Miss M's party Minion style. She was totally against the idea until I showed her the super cute minions I was making!! Using my Silhouette I create a little minion invitation. I started by making a capsule type shape. Through trial and error I found what I thought looked most like a minion! Then I went to the Silhouette Shape Store to try to find something that would work for arms and hair. I ended up using monster arms and hair! I welded the arms to the body and a minion was born!! Using circles and rectangles I made the eyes, goggles, feet, and over-alls! I also utilized the sketch pens on the Silhouette to sketch the invite!

I decided to make minion cupcakes. I had seen many pins on Pinterest. This is my version! I used a twinkie for the body and cut about 1/4 off one end. Then I used white smarties for the eyes and black gel icing for the eyes, goggles, and mouth. I wanted the birthday girl to have more than a cupcake, so I decorated 2 round cakes to put the minion cupcake on! {By the way...the new Cool Whip frosting is AMAZING!! I colored it and piped it onto the cake and cupcakes!!}