Pink Lemonade Birthday Party April 11, 2012

I created the Pink Lemonade collection last summer and I still totally love the mixture of the pinks, yellow and the black trim. I’ve had requests though for a softer look… just light pinks, yellows and white. What do you think? Here are the invites currently available in my Etsy store for this party collection.

Here is the invite in the soft colors- pinks, yellows and white. I really love the look of this and my lovely client Julia gave me permission to use her daughter’s photograph on the mock invite in the Etsy store. I love how Julia posed her precious daughter with a bunch of lemons for the photograph.

I also recently added an invitation that has an option for two photographs. This is perfect if you have twins or couldn’t pick just one photograph for your invitation!

Just this week, my client Lacey ordered the invite (style three in the soft colors, shown above) for her daughter Parker’s 5th birthday and requested no text. Have a look at the magic she worked on with the invite! It just goes to show that thinking outside the box (pun intended) really pays off. I love it! And isn’t her daughter simply gorgeous?

Thank you so much Lacey and Julia for allowing me to share your invites! I hope your daughters have the best birthday ever!

If you are thinking of doing a pink lemonade theme for an upcoming party, be sure to check out my Pinterest board.

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Pink and Yellow Birthday Cake June 5, 2011

Remember the post about the amazing Neapolitan cake by Sweetapolita?

I decided to make a similar cake for my daughter’s upcoming 4th birthday. I don’t bake. I don’t consider myself a baker. I don’t even make cupcakes or cookies. In fact, I think I failed the Wilton level one cake decoration class I took three years ago! So for me to undertake a cake-making project for this special event says a lot. I promised to share the results so here you are…

I used store bought cake mixes. Strawberry cake and yellow cake. The yellow cake wasn’t quite yellow enough for my liking so I added yellow food coloring. I let the layers cool then trimmed the top so that each layer was flat. I made sure to stack them in order: pink, yellow, pink, yellow. I put buttercream frosting between each layer and strawberry preserve.

Four layers stacked

 

Vanilla buttercream frosting

After I covered the cake with buttercream frosting (also store bought), I covered the entire cake with desiccated coconut. This covered all the imperfections in how I spread the buttercream frosting. I finished the cake with fresh strawberries and a 4 inch party circle, available in my Etsy store. After printing out the circle and cutting it, I stuck it to a 6 inch lollipop stick. Very quick and easy way to add a special touch to the cake!

I would have liked smaller strawberries around the base and if I had frosting left over then I’d have piped some on the rim, at the base of the cake, to help keep the strawberries in their place. Ok, the strawberries were big, but they were super sweet and super juicy!  We call our daughter Aubrie Strawberry so this cake was perfect!

Finished cake

Blowing out the candles

Pink and yellow layers

Slice of cake

 

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I will confess that I ordered vanilla and chocolate cupcakes from a local bakery so there was a back-up plan!!! I ordered very plain cupcakes… white buttercream frosting and then added pink and yellow sprinkles.  Actually,
it was great to have cupcakes because the kids LOVED those and the adults got to enjoy the delicious cake!

Cupcakes

 

Cupcake with yellow sprinkles

Thank you to my friend Erin for loaning me the cake pans and the spatula! Couldn’t have done this cake without you! Also, Casey- thank you for the use of the cupcake stand (again)!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Social Network Blast! April 22, 2011

A Party Studio- Pink Lemonade invitation with photograph.

Pink Lemonade invitation

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