I love designing, especially hosting and decorating birthday parties. Even before I had children, I dreamed of grand parties at home. In 1999, I started my graphic design firm, Atomic Egg, specializing in branding and marketing materials for large corporations. Working for Fortune 500 companies is not always the most fun and creative work!
So the whimsical side of my designs came out at home, especially after having children. I started making special things for their rooms and going crazy with ideas for birthday parties. I even made a barn out of a large cardboard box for my son's first birthday.
In the summer of 2008, I began reading blogs and was wowed by so many talented, creative women. Even though I had no idea what blogging was or how to do it, I knew right away that was what I should be doing! I was no longer the weirdo going overboard with my children's birthday parties or making things for my home from scratch. There were other women out there just like me who needed to get out their creativity each day and were using their talents to reach other women. These were my people!
Thank you Amy! I know which one I would pick …
ALL OF THEM:) How about you? Leave your answer below for a chance to win!
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Ohhhh, I love Amy! She is so talented and wonderful! I love everything that she does. I think my favorite printables in her shop are the Camping Owls.
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I’ve admired Amy’s work before. While it’s all wonderful, I’m crazy about the black and white party. My granddaughter would luv that!
wow what fun party making items!! my nephew’s birthday is in 2 weeks, i’d love to win. thank-you!
my daughter would love a party decked out from her shop!
If I’m choosing for my daughter’s birthday, it would most definitely by the Pink Princess Birthday Party. If I were to choose for my own party, I’d go with the Bubble Birthday Party!
Amy’s work is awesome! My medium daughter’s birthday is next month, and I would love to have the pink owl printables!
You are talented Amy…my granddaughter with love any of the princess party items or maybe the owl (her and her mom both have a “thing” for them).
I came here through a link on Amy’s blog. She is fabulous! I would love to get either the Lego party kit or the Owl Camp Out party kit. The first one would be a surprise for my hubby, who is just a kid in man’s body (ha!) and the second one would be for…me! I LOVE owls! :)
The red and black birthday party is very pretty! So is the bubble birthday! Great ideas and fun, too!
My daughter would love the mermaid party! Too cute!
I have been following Amy for awhile now, finding her after googling for party ideals for my little granddaughters. They all are wonderful. My favorite things right now are cupcake toppers.
Love Amy! Been following her blog for a while and I always look forward to her posts! I adore her Lego Party printables…my son would go crazy for them!
Amy’s creations are so adorable! I simply love both the fairy princess and mermaid designs!
I love all of her stuff. I really like the Red and Black Party set. But my boys would like the Lego Party. So much fun!
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I have a 2 huge Lego fans here in my home – my son & husband! I would have to go for the Lego design. I love your ideas – thank you so much for sharing with us.
I would love either the red and black birthday (for my daughter) or the pink princess birthday (for my granddaughter’s 1st birthday) – but really everything is so cute!
Amy totally rocks! I love the pink princess and farm for my grandkids. Great ideas!
Amy is AWESOME!!!
and my favorite thing in her shop is the mermaid party!! sooo adorable!!
I visited Amy’s shop and blog and I love the little printable Lego Boxes to make for little boys….they are clever and so adorable. Thanks, bonnie
Amy is so creative! Hmmm…. Love it all but think i need organization help at the moment :)
Amy is compared to the magician that can take nothing and create something with the dipping of her magic wand. Awesome work Amy. I am inspired by all your postings and look at my calendars everyday that you allowed us to print. The pink princess and farm is my choosing, well for this minute anyway.
My son is a lego fanatic and is about to turn 5….we will be having a lego party for sure and Amy’s printables would make it AMAZING!
Yes without a doubt, she’s got talent! I really have a hard time choicing one favorite. There are TWO I have my eye on right now: Red and Black birthday party and the Lego set.
The owls are by far my favorite!!
I love the red and black birthday party package! All of Amy’s stuff is appealing and fun! Thanks for sharing with us!
I would choose the Farm for my grandson who will be 2 this year. Hoping to win for his sake!
I have been following Amy’s Blog for a while and I think she is very talented. I would love to win her Red and Black Birthday Party Set.
I love the Owl Campout!
(really hard to pick a favorite, tho)!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Amy, you are so talented!!!!!
I love the Lego Party…so cute! Thanks!
I would love to win the lego or owl theme party set,for my twin boys B-day this March.
” Who ” knows why, but I still love the Pink Owl Party. I love pink, I love owls, but put’em together and I’m in party heaven!
I love Amy’s blog and look forward to her updates! Her owl theme is so cute…but actually I LOVE them all!
My favorite is the Lego party! So creative down to the little crackers and cheese that look like lego blocks!
From a suburban Chicago native gone country in Kansas, I not only loveeeeee the farm idea – that house is so great that it inspires me – i love your passion and your willingness to go for it well! The lego grahamcrackers is great! How creative!!! But my personal fav are the swedish style cupcakes. I am Norwegian but have always been drawn to ‘the other side’ and love the colors. Your colors are wonderful!!!! Am so glad you are finding your nitsch as you walk thru this creative phase – the fact you are doing it and doing it well will open doors to YOU that will amaze you! Enjoy the process and keep doing what you are doing – its so inspiring!!!!
I would love the Owl Camp out. My big boy will be 6 soon and I have been thinking about letting him have a “camp” over. This would be awesome!!
My son LOVES the lego theme! Thanks for the great giveaway!
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I love the lego party theme. My son is a lego fanatic!
What’s not to love? I have two granddaughters that I could do a party for – owls, princesses, etc.
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I’m not sure how we are supposed to pick just one;) But because my sons birthday is in April I’m going to say the Lego Party. He LOVES his Legos!!
I’m not sure how we are supposed to pick just one;) But because my sons birthday is in April I’m going to say the Lego Party. He LOVES his Legos!!
I’m not sure how we are supposed to pick just one;) But because my sons birthday is in April I’m going to say the Lego Party. He LOVES his Legos!!
I love all of them. but I think the bubble tags would be a definite for our parties
I am a huge fan of the red & black birthday! So cute!
The Damask Closet Tags are pure genius! I would definitely choose those to help organize and add some design to my boring closet. Why shouldn’t a closet by fun and make you happy, too?! :-)
I love Amy’s Red and Black birthday party! You know what else would be cute??? A French-themed party! Yeah – little Eiffel Towers and Fleur-de-Lis and poodles maybe.
Amy is so creative. The picture of her work room with the curtained table has the wheels in my head spinning with ideas for my sewing room!
Oh, how can you choose only one? The designs are all so fresh and adorable but I’m drawn to “On The Farm”! It would work for either my Grandson or Granddaughter…I’m crossing my fingers:-)
LOVE the lego b-day party!
I love the black, red, and white party. I think that would be perfect for a girls night!
I love all of Amy’s stuff, especailly the Lego party. I would love to see her do a hungry catepillar theme!
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I’d love the red and black party for my duaghter’s 18th birthday next month!
I love the Pink Princess for my granddaughter, Pink Owl for my mother and Red & Black for me. Love your designs.
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Got to be the owls — they make me smile! Just love your work.
I have been following Amy for a couple months! Love her designs, and though I am not one of those “crazy” “over-the-top” moms, as Amy refers to her self in the post, I do like to live vicariously through her whimiscal designs and ideas. I love the advent calandar from thi Christmas and also the cute little owls! My husband thought the starwars/lego ideas were VERY fun!
I love the red and black birthday collection.
Oooo! My son would go crazy over the Lego birthday party! I, however, adore the Owl Camp Out! They are all so cute! Love Amy’s designs!
I would have to say it would be the Lego Birthday design. I have two boys that LOVE Legos and they would just love this as a birthday theme.
I would LOVE to have the damask closet organizers! They’re beautiful!
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I would love the red and black collection or the darling owls!
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I LOVE the Campfire party!!
I love the owl camp party.
I love those cupcakes! Yum!
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I love all the birthday printables. They are simply fabulous!!
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Hi all. Thanks Amy you are really the best. I would like to be able to buy 10 of every thing in your shop. I can’t pick just one. Thanks for the giveaway and have a great day.
With all the baby showers and birthday parties at church, anything would be excellent!
The Farm Party or Lego Party seems need and exciting! But if we are having a girl, the pink owl would be lovely as well!
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it is a toss up between the Red and black party or the Owl Camp out. they are both awesome!
I love the red and black party designs, among many others. I’m a big fan of Amy and her shop and receive her emails!
I’m a follower of Amy’s & am really inspired by her creativity! I would love to have the Days of The Week Tags….as a Mom of 2 little ones who picks out their clothes every day, these would sure come in handy!
I love Amy and her creative-ness!!!I only wish I could be as creative as her! We are planning my soon to be four year old and he has requested a lego party. We would love to win the Lego Design!!!
L love visiting Amy and using her creative ideas with my grandchildren.
I LOVE creating and seeing what others have created, thank you for the beautiful pictures.
I would love the black and white theme party!!! Amy is very creative!! Love the barn made out of a box!!!
I love the princess or pink owl for my daughter! So cute!
I always enjoy getting Amy’s newsletterss in my in box- she makes my day! I would like the black and red for my birthday and I am sure hoping my daughter will want a mermaid birthday! Cute, fun, inspiring stuff!
Love the red and black birthday party set, very classy.
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I love all your designs, but love the owl princess set the best!
The ideas are so cute. My favorite is the Farm Birthday. I’d love to make a barn out of a box for my grandson’s next birthday. Thanks for your generosity.
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I found Amy’s website a few weeks ago and just LOVE it!
Considering myself one of those “fun” Moms who loves to do crafts with her kids rather than dishes too I could use the help in organizing the closets for both my kids and me! The Damask Closet Organizer tags would pep up my closet and the Days of the Week tags would give a little order to the morning rush to school. The Red & Black birthday set is gorgeous too! LOVE,LOVE,LOVE the valentine iPhone that Amy has on her website! This icy week here in Dallas has given us the chance to do our valentine iPhone’s for their school parties! What fun we had! Thanks Amy!
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Cute! I’m happy to read that I’m not the only crazy mom, who loves kids’ birthdays (I’m working on a Western cardboard town). I love Amy’s Farm and Lego Birthdays!
I love the Pink Owls. My daughter turns 3 in May. We had owls living in our backyard when we lived in North Carolina and one of her first words was HOOT!
I’d pick the Red & Black birthday party so it could be used for any age! Very nice. Thanks for the chance.
I love Amy’s work. Since I’ve already used her Lego printables for my Son’s party I would love the Fairy Party. It’s just adorable! Thanks!
Amy is SO creative!!! And wow, the ideas has for birthday parties are wonderful!
Such cute ideas! My creative mama just passed on jan 27 and she would have loved any of these. I am an owl watcher and love the Campy Owl Party.
Thanks for sharing your talent.
Amy, I have been visiting your blog for about a year now, and am so inspired by your “how I got started” story…dreams really do come true! I’d love just about anything in your shop~ thanks for all the freebies you share too :)
I love, Love, LOVE the Pink Owl Birthday Party – thanks so much for the chance! Have a wonderful weekend!
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oh, I luv the Red and Black Birthday party! Thanks for a chance to win!
Hi Amy. With two little girls ( 1 and 3)and a 5 year old little boy we are crazy about parties. Any event justifies making cupcakes and decorating up the house…and each other. My favorites ( I am biased) are the pink owls, I love pink. What can I say?
I just love your desk and how you did the table skirt around it but my favorite are the pink owls!!!!
I love the owls!
I LOVE the black-and-white collection she released recently-ish. And I LOVE her stuff! Am a dedicated Living Locurto blog lurker/reader. Pick me, pick me! :)
I LOVE Amy and her shop. I have used so many of her freebies and ideas for my childrens’ parties and classrooms. One of my favorites by FAR was the owl snack at Halloween. I made those and individually wrapped them for all of the classmates – what a hit!!! Anyway, I love all of the ideas, but I think my son would go crazy about the Lego theme. What an adorable idea!!! By the way Amy…I would love to see/hear ideas about “manly” parties for the wonderful husbands in our lives. I’m sure you are full of them :-)
I’d love the fairy princess set. So cute!
My son’s 2nd birthday is next month. What a great help this would be if I won!
I too am an Amy fan. :) Yay for a another link to shine!
I’d buy either the Damask Closet Organizer Tags OR the black and red bird party (because with three little girls in the house, it would be fun to have a grownup party)!
either the pink princess or the red and black. Love them both.
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Red and black party!
I love the Owls and my son loves the Legos! Thanks for the giveaway!!
I love all of Amy’s designs! I really want her Clothing Tags of the week for my kids clothes! I also really love all the owl designs!! Thanks!
Amy’s work often inspires me! I would love to have the Pink Owl Birthday Party for my daughter who’s birthday is in May. Thanks for introducing me to this site as well.
I love Amy’s birthday party ideas for children. She is so creative!
I would like the Fairy Princess party because it is close to Tinkerbell. My almost 2 year old great granddaughter is hung up on Tink.
I would love the lego printables from Amy’s shop because I have 3 boys who love legos!
I also like the black, white, and red party printables.
OMG they are fantastic, I am totally in love with the Tiffany blue birthday, it would be fantastic for my birthday this year and maybe spur my husband to get me a blue box gift to boot!
I love the designs and I know my son would be thrilled with the LEGO Party designs! I love them all though.
Love Amy’s designs!!! I dig the Days of the Week tags and the and just about anything owl is awesome!
The Lego Party is my favorite. I have to boys who love Lego. Thanks for the chance.
I am a huge Amy fan, and have been following her trying to decide on a theme for my son’s first birthday and he’s only 6 months old. I’d better hurry! So while I haven’t decided, I might do the barnyard theme because we could have so much fun with animals!
Cute stuff. I would probably pick something for my boys, whose birthdays are in October. The owls maybe or maybe she could do something custom for me.
LOVE the lego men party!!!
red and black for me!
I am so happy to see that “Where Women Create” have featured you this week. I am a subscriber to your blog and I appreciate how you give many of us free downloads. I really like the “Fairy Princess” party kit. My one graddaughter will be turning 3 this summer, and it would be perfect for her.
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My sister has a birthday coming up and these would be fun at any age.
I’ve followed Amy for quite a while and love her artwork and party ideas. It would be so fun to do an owl campout theme for a party! Thanks for such a great giveaway!
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Amy’s work is superb. I love most of the designs but the Tiffany inspired one is my favourite – only I would need some extra customising to allow for being more than 40! The closet printables and the red and black designs are terrific also.
Any is awesome. I love her blog! I think the Lego party printables are awesome.
Cool! I really like Amy’s pink Owl birthday stuff – my mum is such a big fan of owls.
How fun, very cute style…makes me want to smile everytime I see what she has created.
The campy owls are way cute.
Love all her ideas…..=)
I love the 40th birthday party designs!
They are all wonderful….but I LOVE the red and black.
Wow! Thanks for introducing me to these amazing designs! The Lego party & Camping party items are definately in my future. Does she do valentines???
Love them all…however I think I’d pick the LEGO theme…perfect for a 6 year old boy!
Working full time in an office, I often pull together a bunch of outfits at one time so I don’t have to make the decision every morning. The clothes tags are a great idea!
I love the black and red party!! Perfect for my daughter who is about to turn 13 and is desperately trying to shed her “little girl” layers. :( The young lady in her would love it!
What girl wouldn’t want the birthday party Tiffany-style. Beautiful
Cool stuff! My boys would love, love, love the Lego party and my daughter would love the princess theme. Thanks for a chance to win!
I came here through a link on Amy’s blog. She is wonderful! So nice that she shares her stuff too! I love the OWL CAMP OUT and the DAYS OF THE WEEK TAGS. SO hard to choose. Thanks!
… a very difficult choice.. bubblessss or red & black
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I love the Tiffany Inspired Party. Just beautiful!
Amy you ROCK! With two boys ages 6 & 9, we love the lego party of course!
If I have to choose one…Love the Pink Owl Birthday Party! Wonderful Designs! Very inspirational interview!
The Lego one is my favorite ! Perfect for any little boy!
Everything in her shop is so creative! I do believe that my little princess would love the pink princess theme.
I started reading Amy’s blog about a month ago and I love all the valentines stuff! My son is so excited to be using the iPhone printables for his class!
I have always liked the black & red birthday party since I have seen it. I’d love to use it for my birthday, since it is Feb 12! It’s not too ‘Valentiney’….which is great. :)
i would love the red and black damask party pack!! its my absolute fave!!
My girls favorite is the fairy party – they now want the no sew tutus….I better get to it :)
I enjoy Amy’s constant stream of creative ideas! With all the Lego lovers in my home, I would love to celebrate my boys with her Lego party package.
Because Boy’s Parties seem to be a big challenge, and my three newest grandchildren are B-O-Y-S, I would pick the Campy Owl items and the Lego Party items!!! I love all your ideas and colorful treats! Thanks for following your dream and sharing!
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I am so inspired by everything on the Locurto website. I have used some of the free printables. I would love to use the Legos Birthday set for my son. Adorable!!
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My son’s 8th bday is next month! He would LOVE the lego theme!
I love the pink owls! So many adorable ones to choose from!
Its so hard to pick just one. I love the owls. They are my favorit
Amy makes having a birthday party easy!! She helps provide the fun stuff!!luv the mermaid party!
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I LOVE the red and black printables… they are fabulous! Thank you for hosting another wonderful guest and for sponsoring the giveaway!
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I follow Amy on Facebook- I love her items! My fav is the Lego Birthday Party!
I love them all! =) ALL! I can see a use for every one. (I do have 10 sisters, five nephews, two neices, and LOTS of inlaws…)
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Your designs reflect your great attitude and creative energy! Love the Black & Red birthday design.
i would do the red and black for my moms 60th birthday
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I’m a fan of Amy’s Blog! I love the Owl Campout printables! Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
Four years ago in April my grandson was born prematurely and because of prayer and many wonderful healthcare professionals he is absolutely perfect. He is all boy so the Camp Out, Barn or Legos would be fun. What a perfect b-day it would be for him. Keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for the chance.
I love these designs..its hard to choose a favorite! I think the Owls are a winner for me. I definitely bookmarked the printable freebees..perhaps to use in my classroom in the future:)
Amy is so talented! Love the Pink Princess!
I have a son turning 7 and I would love the lego theme party. All the details make it incredible! I also have a son graduating High school in June…any graduation party ideas?? I would love them!
I would love the black and white party! Love it! Thanks