Frogs, Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails

So here it is! Jase's 1st birthday invitation! It took me about 3 hrs to design it (I'm a little rusty), but overall I'm pretty happy with it. It has all the colors I'm doing for his party and contains his party theme (the old nursery rhyme about what little boys are made of). I thought it was a cute idea. I had them printed in matte finish at Costco in 5x7" size. They came out cute, but the border kind of got cropped off. Oh well. It was cheap. So I can't complain. Now I'm just hammering out the details of the party. Which is, mostly, food. I have some fun ideas that go along with the theme, but it is getting a bit ridiculous so I think I have to start simplifying or this party will cost me a million bucks! (If you're wondering what's up with the black boxes, I'm just blocking out personal info since this is on the internet.)Ok, below is my final sketch for what the cake is hopefully going to look like. I LOOOOVE the snail I drew, so I hope I can get my cake to look even half as cute as it is. The color is kind of off because I took this picture in the dark under some lamp light...so let me explain: The shell is going to be chocolate brown, the body will be lime green, and the polka dots will be lime green, aqua blue, and white. Cute, right? I am thinking to do the antennae with licorice and make eyeballs with big marshmallows. Then I can pipe some black pupils on them. My plan is to make the cake in this exact shape (laying down, not standing upright) and I'll decorate with buttercream. I will probably use like Betty Crocker's vanilla frosting (dyed green) for the body, and chocolate frosting for the shell as my base layer. I am also thinking of doing the shell in a 2 layer cake, while the rest of the snail body will be one layer. I hope that will turn out cute and not odd looking! We'll see!