Now Available: Medieval Knight Birthday Party August 17, 2011

I am so excited about this latest collection! After the cute and ultra girly Pink and White Damask collection, it was fun to switch gears and do something very manly! What could be more boyish than a medieval themed birthday party! Thank you Brigitte for contacting me about creating these them for your son’s upcoming party!

By Royal Decree, a Knights Tournament there shall be! Prepare to test your strength and power with the greatest knights of the kingdom! This birthday theme is sure to be a huge hit with boys of all ages! Wouldn’t you agree? As with all tournaments, there are two teams… in this case, the red team (the mighty griffin) and the blue team (the regal lion). All the party printables reflect these two team colors and logos. There can only be one birthday invite though so you get to choose which you’d prefer. Here they are:

 

If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you know that I LOVE welcome door signs and absolutely ADORE cupcake toppers!

Every tournament has to have some friendly competitions! Here are some signs you can post at each game station!

 

 

Buffet food labels and water bottle wrappers add a manly touch to this party’s theme!  And of course, no birthday party would be complete without a banner and thank you tags for the favor bags!

 

 

This medieval knight party printable collection is now available at my Etsy store. If you want all the party pieces shown here, the cost is only $45! Such a bargain! Don’t forget to LIKE us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter! If there’s a themed party you’d like to see me create, please contact me! I LOVE custom work.

 

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Pink Lemonade Birthday Party July 14, 2011

At the beginning of June, I hosted a Pink Lemonade birthday party for my daughter’s fourth birthday. Her favorite colors are pink and yellow (though it seems to change on a monthly basis) and I designed the whole printable collection around that. Here are photos from the party. This collection features a photo of the birthday girl and Aubrie certainly loved seeing her face in the decorations!

Banner

Large pom-poms

 

Door sign

 

Food-wise, we offered cheese and crackers, grilled hot dogs, star shaped fairy bread (in pink and yellow), and a huge fruit platter. What is fairy bread? Very simple… spread butter on a slice of bread then covered with sprinkles and cut into a fancy shape using a cookie cutter! Kids LOVE this! For the drinks, we of course had lemonade with huge strawberries floating inside and strawberry flavored Capri Sun. There were also bottles of water.

 

Fairy bread

 

Fruit platter

Strawberry lemonade

Water bottle wrappers

Dessert was very simple: a home-baked cake that featured strawberries and had pink and yellow layers inside. Wanna know how I made this simple cake? Check out the post here. This was decorated with the 4 inch party circle. We also had cupcakes in chocolate and vanilla. These were decorated with cupcake toppers and sprinkles! They looked very pretty and tasted delicious.

Dessert station

Cupcakes

 

Cupcake stand

 

Birthday cake

Inside of cake

 

For the party favors, I made pinwheels using yellow glitter paper and placed these inside pink goody bags. I printed labels with each child’s name on it and stuck it to the goody bag. We also had bottles of bubbles with matching labels, pink and yellow pencils, and personalized chocolate bars! I love the personalized chocolate bars. I have had these for every birthday and I keep a wrapper in a book of birthdays that I have for my daughter. It is a great keepsake because it includes her weight, height, things she enjoys doing, accomplishments, etc.

Goody bags

 

Personalized chocolate bars

 

Birthday keepsake

 

Bubbles

Birthday girl

If you like this party and want a similar one for your little girl, check out the Pink Lemonade collection available now at my Etsy store!

 

 

 

 

Candy Wrapper Party Favors April 11, 2011

Every year for my daughter’s birthday I have made personalized candy bars and these have been given out as party favors. I love these and I am going to continue the tradition with my son. His first birthday party will be coming up in a few weeks.

Here are the ones I’ve made for my darling daughter, Aubrie over the past three years. A big thank you to my friend Wendy who created the graphics for these!

1st birthday: garden ladybird

 

2nd birthday: under the sea

 

3rd birthday: Hello Kitty

 

 

Tutorial: Note cards with belly band March 28, 2011

I am so happy to now offer printable note cards in my Etsy store. I’ve been wanting to branch out to the print-your-own party supplies for a while now and have had a lot of fun creating some incredible collections. The pattern in the photos of this tutorial is from the Classic Boy collection. There are invites, birthday banner, cupcake toppers and thank you tags available in this collection.

I can custom make these note cards in any color and font! They are make fabulous gifts and also make excellent thank you cards after a birthday party. Here’s how to put these together. Of course the first thing you’ll have to do is print the file that I e-mail you after your purchase 😉 It is best to use heavy bright white paper (ideally 110 lb). This is available from Staples or most craft stores.

1. Use a paper cutter to trim the paper. Each sheet of paper will give you two note cards that measure 4 inches x 6 inches. It is easiest to cut the belly bands first. Then, trim each side.

Cut the belly bands

Belly Band

Trim the sides

Trim the top and bottom of cards

2. Your printer may not be able to print all the way to the edge. So, if you have a white margin on either side of the belly bands, trim these off with scissors.

Trim belly band

3. Use a corner-rounder punch in the corners. If you don’t have one, you can use scissors for this part. I highly recommend getting a punch though, especially if you are doing a lot of the note cards!

Round-corner punch

Round corners with scissors

4. Fold the belly band about ¼ of the way up.

Fold belly band

Crease

5. Now, put the crease over the note card. Turn the card over and do the second fold/crease on the belly band.

Align crease on edge of note card

Back of card

Back

6. Et voila! Your beautiful note cards are finished.

Note card with belly band