Watch out Tony Stark there is a New IRON MAN in town (Boy Halloween Costume)

Hello Everyone!

Tony Stark as Iron Man? Nope, it's my son in a Mark VI Iron Man suit, Avengers version. Watch out Tony Stark, Tristan is going to take over your job... with the ladies! I love my son so much. He is handsome, smart and quite a character.  I am very excited to share with you my son's Halloween costume that was completely built by hand, out of foam mats, close to 500 pieces were cut out of paper, then traced onto foam, cut out of foam and then glued together and primed, and painted. I enlisted everyone, my hubby, my son, my daughter to help with the steps... even my neighbor for help with the lighting.

Here is the costume with helmet and lights.

Want to see it in action? Here is a video of the costume. My son was "so over and done with" the photo shoot at that point... LOL! Please excuse his enthusiasm.The music is coming from him too... The lights are hard to see but are all on, in his eyes, the arc reactor and the repulsor beams in the palm of his hands.

Back to the dashing smile of his...

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PS. All patterns from Pepakura were created by ROBO3867 and Stealth from The Hero Tutorials. Please go check them out. They have fantastic files and tutorial videos. 

Check out my Iron Man Birthday Party Invites 

Please see more of our costumes in the following links:

Angel Warrior with Articulated Wings
Jack Skellington  - Disney's Nightmare Before Christmas Puppet Costume

Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope Wedding Gown Tutorial

Moon/Lunar Fairy - with articulated wings

Tron Lightcycle
Peacock Princess with articulated tail
Iron Man - 3D
3D Paper Doll Ballerina
Literary Work of Art

Working on halloween costumes already! Iron Man sneak peek.

We, in our house, have been discussing halloween for a couple of months now. It's kind of a big deal after last years award winning costumes. Two weeks ago my son settled on iron man. Now most parents hearing this would go to the store or maybe shop online  spending anywhere from $20 to $80 dollars on this costume. If I did this with my son would not be happy with me.
In the past years he has been a transforming Optimus Prime with lights and sounds , Avatar the Last Airbender complete with articulated flying glider prop, Bumble Bee with lights and sound and now this year Iron Man.

After researching many different ways to create his requested  costume, I settled on a design by the foam costume designer named "Stealth". His foam technique converts a 3D paper sculpture pattern, called Papkura, into a full sized costume. it looks fantastically real and I hope I can pull it off.
Here is the first pattern image of the helmet resized to fit my son. Wish me luck! I'm going to need it! LOL!

Please see more of our costumes in the following links:

Angel Warrior with Articulated Wings
Jack Skellington  - Disney's Nightmare Before Christmas Puppet Costume

Parks and Recreation's Leslie Knope Wedding Gown Tutorial

Moon/Lunar Fairy - with articulated wings

Tron Lightcycle
Peacock Princess with articulated tail
Iron Man - 3D
3D Paper Doll Ballerina
Literary Work of Art

Past Birthday Invitations I have created...

In honor of my son's birthday party invites I am in the process of making I thought I would reminisce about the ones I have already created. Hope you enjoy.

EDIT: For more invitations please see these links...

- Minecraft Birtyday Party Invitations please see this post HERE.

- Harry Potter Hogwarts Invites please see this post HERE.

- Fashion-ista Pink and Black Designer Purse please see this post HERE

- Yellow and Grey Wedding Invitations  please see this post HERE 

- Lego Bionicle Mask of Light please see this post HERE

- Lego Starwars Light Sabers please see this post HERE

- Iron Man Mask Brithday Party  Invites please see this post HERE

- Transformer Allspark Birthday Party Invitations

-Poodles in Paris Passport Birthday Party Invitations

-Wanted -  Cowgirl Root Beer Saloon Birthday Party Invitations

- Angelina Ballerina Birthday Party Invitations please see this post HERE

Thanks for looking. The new ones will be up soon. My son has chosen a Lego Bionicle Birthday this year and wanted them to be like the Iron Man ones only with the Mask Of Light as the front.(UPDATE: this is an old post and all the current invitations I have created are linked at the top)

Boy Birthday Invitations:
- Minecraft Birtyday Party Invitations
- Harry Potter Hogwarts Invites
- Lego Bionicle Mask of Light

- Lego Starwars Light Sabers

- Iron Man Mask Brithday Party  Invites

Girl's Birthday Invitations:

- Fashion-ista Pink and Black Designer Purse

- Angelina Ballerina Birthday Party Invitations

Iron Man - Invites

Hello everyone! Happy National Scrapbook Day. I had to take time to day to post something for such an event. Though I will not be scrapbooking today.
I hope you all are having a wonderful weekend, I am! Tonight we are celebrating my Hubby's Birthday with just us family. Next weekend is my son's Birthday and I finished these invites a couple of days ago. I just had to share them with you all. My son choose Iron Man as his theme this year. He will be turning 7 years old already. I can't believe it! I love to entertain so this is just the start of a crazy whirl wind of a week we have planed.
These invites I created with just a paper piecing technique and some basic applications of Tim Holtz Alcohol inks. They look pretty simple because they are modeled after the comic book character. I took the picture of the Iron Man mask that we ordered from the party supply store. I printed it out at the size of 4.25 wide and 5.5 high. This allowed me to use the standard size card envelopes. I took the picture of the mask and printed it 3 times. Cut out all the different pieces to the mask (that would all be cut out separately and then layered) this gave me a templates for the base of the card the top of the head, the jaw, the face and the eyes. I used 11 pieces of paper total for each of the invites. You cant see several of them in this pic but if you check out the picture of it opened you will see a few more of the layers. It is completely finished on the back with a black cardstock.
I used regular adhesive tape runner and pop dots. With some key scoring and folding it created a slight 3-D look on the top of the face. I used the Pilot gold ink pen to create the thicker gold lines. Highlighted or rather low lighted the face in key places to make shadows for more of a dimensional look. I did this with the Tim Holtz Alcohol inks. I found a font on the computer that matched the Iron Man movie title font and created the text in a word document. Printed that out on cardstock and added it inside the layers of paper. You pull the jaw down and the information slides out like a hidden message. It is so cool and really easy I cant believe how easy it was to create this interactive effect.
After creating 28 of these I feel like I can do just about anything. I thought because of the simple look to the character it would be easy.... ummm... easy yes but really tedious. Each of the eleven pieces had to be hand cut and then five of them had to be hand shaded.
The envelopes I just added a graphics I found online, of the Arc Reactor and the movie title, on the front and used the same font to put "Your Invited" also on the front of the envelope. My son was so cute running around handing them out. He cracks me up. I hope you enjoy this. I go nuts during the kids' birthdays so you will probably see another post about this event.

I have a question for you all... Do any of you as paper crafters make your own invitations and/or party favors?

Have a great weekend.

More Birthday Party Invitations I have created:

Boy Birthday Invitations:
- Minecraft Birtyday Party Invitations
- Harry Potter Hogwarts Birthday Party Invitations
-Lego Bionicle Mask of Light

- Lego Starwars Light Sabers

- Iron Man Mask Brithday Party  Invites

Girl's Birthday Invitations:

- Fashion-ista Pink and Black Designer Purse

- Angelina Ballerina Birthday Party Invitations