~ Birthday Party ~ Zebra Print and Hot Pink DIVA SPA Party

I finally get to show you the pictures of the party I styled last month for my friend's daughter birthday.  Ariana, the birthday girl, invited a few friends over her house for a SPA party to celebrate her 11th birthday. 

She wanted the decor to be Hot Pink and Zebra Print.  We used the Zebra Print Party supplies from Birthday Express.

My friend ordered the Cake from a local bakery and I made the cupcakes and cupcake toppers. I used my flourish punch to made the toppers. 



The Super Talented Cathy from The Cake Bomb made the cute and delicious 'Nail Polish' Cake Pops.  

I also designed the Water Bottle labels to go with the theme. 

  The girls got their Facial and Nails done, chat and cheer with champagne {...Just Sprite} in Hot Pink Martini Glasses.

The complete Diva Spa Printable Collectionis now in the Shop. 
 { Personalized Water Bottle Labels, Cupcake toppers, Thank you tags,
Food/Sweet Table Labels and Chocolate Wrappers}

~ Birthday Party ~ 50's Diner Sock Hop PART 2

Continuation from Part 1 : If you missed Part 1 of this Party, Click HERE!

AS SEEN in Hostess with The Mostess ...

                                                               THE FOOD TABLE...

This is the other side of the room. We decorated all the room with balloons. I specially loved the balloon wall that my mom made as a background for the food table. The shinny table skirt and all the Sock Hop 50's Party Supplies  { Plates, cups, napkins...} are from  Birthday Express

 

I had so much fun planning the food table: Hamburgers, mini hot-dogs, fries, pizza, chicken nuggets..Just food that is usually served at a dinner...I also had fruits, strawberry dip {this is one is always a hit...recipe coming soon}, jello cups...

 

I was so excited when I found the vintage Coca-Cola glass bottles in my local supermarket and I used them as part of the decor as well.

I made Water Bottle Labels and Straw tags using the printable designs from my shop.  

 

In the picture above birthday girl's Lil sister! I went to Johnny Rockets and they were so nice and gave me a few their hats for the kids to wear.

 

 THE PARTY FAVORS...


I came across with the pretty bags at Michaels and they matched perfectly with the Sock Hop 50's Party Supplies  and I filled them with girly stuff for favors: Hair bands, hair clips, lipsticks...


PINATA AND WELCOME SIGN...


I also made a Pinata and a Welcome Sign in the shape Jukeboxes.

We had disco lights and music from the 50's and the girls had a blast dancing with Tiffany from BounceDJ   She was Excellent!


Credits and Vendors:
Cake Pops: Cathy The CakeBomb
Entertainment: BounceDj
Sock Hop 50's Party Supplies can be purchased online at Birthday Express
Decor, Styling, Sweets and Party Printable Designs: Party-Tales


 

~ Birthday Party ~ Under the Sea Birthday Bash! Part 1

 As seen on Hostess With The Mostess!!

I'm back! I know... I said I was going to be away for 2 weeks and have been now more than a month.

I've been planning party after party this whole month... but at least I have lots of party pictures to show you!

Today I will start with my daughter's 3rd Under the Sea birthday Bash!  And this one comes with pictures overload! That is why I will show you some today and some tomorrow...

I loved how everything turned out!

 

THE DECOR...

My daughter loves Ariel so we went with the Under the Sea Theme to celebrate her 3rd birthday. 

  

My mom and I did all the decorations: We made blue tulle table skirts, we had a Hand painted mural we used as the main table background and made a blue balloons wall around the room and twisting balloons to simulate the seaweeds under the sea.

  

THE SWEET TABLE...

I made the cake and cupcakes. I was so happy with how the mermaid fondant cake topper turned out, as it was the first time I have tried to make something like that.  I made the cupcake toppers as well with glittery turquoise card stock and I used my new favorite Flourish punch.  The cupcake-Cake stand is from Wilton.

 These gorgeous Cake pops, were from Cathy Alfano from The Cake Bomb, who recently won the Canada Sweets and baking competition and one of the judges was Buddy from Cake boss.

  

Aren't these adorable?  Crab Cake Pops and Fish bowl Cake pops! Cathy did an excellent work.  Not only the were pretty but delicious too!

  

  

I made some sea shells cookies by filling them with butter cream icing and using a white gum ball as the pearls.

 sea creatures gummy skewers 

THE PARTY FAVORS...

The party favors were some canvas totes filled with filled with headbands, coral bracelets, lip balms and lots of other goodies. I found the white totes at Michaels and I stamped them with the same motive as the invitations and all the paper decor using iron transfer paper and sew the blue trim.  Iron on transfer designs are now available at my etsy shop.

 Under The Sea Printable Collection

Click here to see more pictures of this party- UNDER THE SEA BIRTHDAY Part 2:

   

  http://party-tales.blogspot.ca/2012/05/birthday-party-under-sea-birthday-bash.html

 

 The Food table.. Recipes and more.. and a very special guest came to oo

 

 You can find these beautiful Mermaid Party Supplies at Birthday Express.

 

Pictures by: My friend Angela Zardoni..Thanks Angela :)

Cake pops: Cathy Alfano The Cake Bomb

Party Styling, Cake, Cupcake toppers, Party printable designs, Favors, Invitations: Yours truly :) Party-Tales

Balloons Specialist: My mom. Gracias Mami!

Birthday Girl: My pretty 3 year old daughter!

 

~ Cake Pops ~ By The Cake Bomb

 

Monkey Cake Pops

Made with Chocolate Banana Cake, dipped in milk Chocolate.

Happy Monday!

I just wanted to show you some pretty cake pops to start your week off sweet!

These Cake pops are from the super talented Cathy Alfano from The Cake Bomb. 

Cathy was actually the winner for the best Lollicake at the 2011 Canada's Baking and Sweet Show competition for best taste and creativity. Guess who one of the judges was? Buddy Valastro from The Cake Boss. 


More pretty cake pops from Cathy:

Owl Cake pops

Cars Cake Pops

Cupcake Cake pops

Spider-man cake pops and brownie cupcakes

Strawberry cake pops.  So cute for a Strawberry Shortcake themed party.  

 

And here is Cathy receiving her prize from the 'Cake Boss'. Congrats Cathy!

If you haven't entered in our fabulous weekly giveaway, there is still chance. 
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HAVE A SWEET WEEK!

~ DIY Tutorials ~ Rice Krispie Pops "Little Pirates"

As seen on Ivano's First Birthday "Pirate Party"...

Here are the instructions on how to make these cute little pirates pops: 

To make the pops you'll need:

  

Round Cookie Cutter 

Candy wooden sticks

Parchment Paper

Icing decorating tubes {red, white and black}
Treat bags and curling ribbon to wrap pops  

50 ml	1/4 cup	margarine or butter
250 g	1 pkg	(about 40) regular marshmallows or 5 cups miniature
2 ml	1/2 tsp	vanilla extract (optional)
1.5 L	6 cups	RICE KRISPIES CEREAL

 

Preparation

1. Melt margarine in large saucepan over low heat. Add marshmallows and stir until completely melted. Remove from heat.
2. Stir in vanilla. Stir in RICE KRISPIES cereal until well coated.
3. Using lightly buttered spatula, press into buttered round cookie cutter over parchment paper.
4. Wait a few minutes and insert Candy sticks before they dry completely
5. Let dry and decorate with Icing decorating tubes {Usually available in the baking section of the supermarkets or specialty store like bulk candy or Michaels}, let dry completely at least 6 hours before wrapping.

You can also make your own royal icing with the mix like shown in the picture above but then you'll need colouring gels, piping bags and tips.

 Now you can use any cookie cutter to make any rice krispie pops to match your party theme. 

 

Really easy and yummy!

  All of the pirate printable collection now available at my Etsy store.

 

These boy party ideas were also featured on Spaceships and Laser Beams.

~ Birthday Party ~ Pirates!! 1st birthday party and Pirate pops Tutorial

 I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while. Ivano turned one in October and his mom and I thought a Pirate Party was the perfect theme to celebrate his birthday. 

I had so much fun planning all the details of this party and I love how everything turned out!

 Ivano loves balloons and we had tons of them!

 We wanted to have a "cute" rather than "scary" pirate theme,

that's why we chose the color palette to be sky blue, white and red.  

I made the cupcakes and designed the cupcake toppers to match the decor.

  

  

I made the most adorable rice krispie pops in the shape of little pirate faces

{Tutorial here}

The tables were decorated with tons of chocolate gold coins, pirate eyepatches,

 gold necklaces and gold wrapped Hershey kisses {pretend gems}.

 I also made the water bottle labels to match the pirate party theme.

We wrapped the party favors in white and red stripes paper and decorated with a raffia bow and made to match Thank you tags.  

 All of the pirate party supplies were purchased at the party packagers here in Canada.

 Pirate party supplies can be also purchased online at Birthday express.   

  All of the pirate printable collection now available at my Etsy store.

 

These boy party ideas were also featured on Spaceships and Laser Beams.