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As you may or maynot know, I am an Independent Demonstrator for a company called Uppercase Living. Uppercase Living® was founded in 2006 with the vision of creating an inspiring decorative medium that would allow customers to transform their spaces into a reflection of themselves. This vision was delivered through beautiful decorative lettering and embellishments sold through in-home parties, called Open Houses. These expressions could be applied quickly and easily to walls, tiles, wood blocks, and other meaningful places, without enlisting the help of a professional decorator. Our decorative lettering and embellishments allow you to transform your rooms in minutes.

Words have the ability to change our attitudes, influence our behavior, and ultimately impact our lives. Uppercase Living™ embraces this bility by offering an unparalleled approach to home décor.

From wise and spiritual to witty and entertaining, surround yourself with expressions that make your space reflect the abundance life has to offer. Our decorative vinyl expressions are simple to apply yet look as if painted by a master artisan. Instantly, your home comes to life with motivation, inspiration, humor, or tenderness.Choose from our hundreds of professionally
designed expressions or create your own custom expression using any of our 50 fonts and 36 colors with the MyDesign™ Tool.

With all that said I would like to welcome you to the very first edition of the UL Idea Spot! In this regular series of blog posts, I will be showcasing how you can transform a simple space into a fabulous design focal point for any season or occasion. Everyone’s got that one little spot in their home they always want to refresh and the UL Idea Spot will help you do it! Each of these entries will include a photo and simple project recipe so you can follow along and recreate the same designs. Our Uppercase Living Creative Director, Christina Stark, will be my guest blogger, providing design tips and an insider’s view into how each concept came together. We have got some great ideas on baby showers for this first entry, so read on!

‘Tis the season for milestone events like babies and weddings, but who says you have to spend a fortune on run-of-the-mill shower decorations, party favors, and gifts? With a little bit of creativity, you can create personalized, inexpensive gifts and decor that your friend or loved one will cherish for years.

I’ll start you off! We recently held a baby shower for an Uppercase Living employee, and here’s what we came up with for an “It’s a Boy!” baby shower display:

As with any good design, we started our display with the very basics: color scheme, graphics, and text. We chose two coordinating colors (Sky Blue and Green Tea) and a neutral color (Bright White), then picked out our embellishments—Elephant (size 5” and 12”; item #4482105 and 4482112) and Face Card Heart (size 2”; item #4485002). MyDesign was the next step—and a huge help in creating an expression that was meaningful for our shower recipient. We created a 2” custom expression—Welcome Baby Boy Olsen—in a playful, perfect-for-a-baby-shower font called Jot.

At our wall, we created the ideal focal point—a mommy/ baby pair—using two differently sized Elephants (one mirrored, so they face each other), three hearts (grouping items into threes, or any odd number, is a popular technique), and our custom expression. Repetition is essential in design, so we also placed our 2” Elephant embellishment on our favor boxes.

To round out this darling display, we purchased a metal tin (you can find similar gift items for a steal at Walmart or Target!) and decked it out with a series of alphabet letters in a boyish font called Princetown (2” Sky Blue ACEGIK; 2” Green Tea custom BDFHJL; 5” Sky Blue B). We embellished the tin lid with a 9” Hollow Circle embellishment—once again, Sky Blue—and repeated our primary font, Jot, in a custom “is for baby” expression.

The last item on the list was the memory-keeping keepsake for mom. We found a white photo album and turned it into a pretty baby book with two embellishments: a Sky Blue B (2.5” B in Jot) overlaying a Green Tea Round Medallion (size 3”; item #4476803). A touch of ribbon, a plush teddy bear, some chocolate candies (of course!), and a few balloons were the perfect final accents needed to finish off the design with style.

That’s it! Custom décor for any shower. Now that you’ve got your next party idea in the bag, let the oohs and ahs begin!