~ Giveaway ~ Winner The Party Room Grand Opening

We have a Winner!  Julie Lundstrom Entry #50

Thanks to all who participated in our fabulous giveaway with ThePartyRoom

Julie please contact me at party-tales{at}rogers.com to claim your prize!

  We are having another awesome giveaway this week courtesy of POCADOTZ 

The winner will receive a $25 GC to PocaDotz- fun and unique kids jewlery shop

and $25 GC to my Etsy shop. 

You can be our next lucky Winner! Click here to Enter!

~ Giveaway ~ Party Favors by POCA DOTZ on Etsy

We're having another Fabulous giveaway starting today!

POCA DOTZ shop on Etsy is being so kind and giving away a $25 Gift certificate to one lucky PartyTales blog reader.

But that's not all the Winner will also receive a $25 Gift Credit to my Shop. 

Poca Dotz shop on Etsy offers unique and fun jewelery accessories for kids. 

Their Bottle Caps necklaces have become really popular party favors as they have almost any design to go with your themed party.  

How to enter: Log in with facebook or your name and email on the widget below.
Click on the first button to 'Like' party-tales on facebook to unlock 6 more additional chances to win.  Tasks required {like on facebook, visit the shop, leave a blog comment, Share the Giveaway ...} should be completed for entries to be valid. Entries not completed will be cancelled.  

Contest runs from Friday, March 9, 2012 to Friday March 16, 2012. The contest is open to US and Canadian residents. Winner will be picked randomly via Rafflecopter and name of winner will appear on the Widget below. Winner will be announced on March 16 here and on facebook.  

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~ Tutorial Thursday ~ How to Use Printable Party Designs

While I was getting everything ready for the 'Photo Shoot' of My Strawberry Shortcake Printable Party Collection,  I took some pics to show you how I used the printable files to make Cupcake toppers, Water Bottle Labels, Food Labels, Straw tags and Treat bags. 

 Here are some Essential Tools Required:

 Paper Cutter - I really like the Fiskar Brand

Punches - I've had the Uchida Punches for a while and they work really good and my new favorite one is the EK Success Flourish Punch

Small hole Punches - For favor tags and straw tags

Lollipop Sticks and Small Envelope Seals for cupcake toppers

Double Sided Tape

8.5 x 11 White Cardstock Paper

Stapler for treat favor bags and

Printable Party designs from my Shop.

Cupcake Toppers:

I printed my design on a 8.5"x11" White Cardstock Paper, and with the paper cutter cut out 3 separate strips. I used my 2" Scalloped and Flourish punches to cut out all the designs and attached to lollipop sticks with small envelope Seals. 

You can use these same cutouts for favor tags, napkin rings and straw tags.

Treat Bags and Favor Tags:

These are the new printables now on the shop, I'm making Treat Bag Favor Labels for all of my designs. The file is designed to print two Treat Bags Favor Labels and four 2" tags that can be used to attach to favors, cupcake toppers etc...

  I just printed my file on a 8.5"x11" Cardstock Paper.  I used the 2" scalloped punch for the favor tags, made a small hole punch and attached to the Mini-Gumball machine with a small elastic string.

I filled my bags with the candy, fold over my treat tags labels and stapled on each end.  I love how these ones in particular look with the strawberry candy. So cute!

Water Bottle Labels:

There are several ways to do this.  You can either get Water Bottle Labels, a full size Sticker Sheet or for an easy and economical but still cute party just print in regular 8.5"x11" white copy paper, like I did, and attach to bottles with double sided tape. 

I just serve the water  at room temperature; but If you want to serve your water cold and don't have waterproof labels, you can still make them waterproof yourself with Clear packing tape :) Yes, the width of the tape is the exact width of the label.  I've done it before and the bottles look good and the labels didn't get ruined when placed on ice, it's just more work - you will ruin a few labels for sure until you get the hang of it :) Just laminate both sides of the label with the clear packing tape, do it slowly to remove all the air bubbles. 

Sweet/Food Table Labels:

Food/Sweet labels look adorable on your sweet or food buffet. All of my printable files are designed to print on 8.5"x11" size paper and customized with your own food/sweet selection. I just printed on White Cardstock paper, used my paper cutter and fold in half to make them stand up alone. 

Lollipop and Straw Tags:

To decorate the lollipop I just took one of the 2" scalloped circles and layered it on top of a 3" scalloped cut out with double sided tape.  For the Straw tags, I punched two small holes on my 2" cut outs and insert the straws through.

All of the tools required can be purchased at Michaels Stores or Walmart - they carry a lot of the craft tools as well. You can also visit the Craft tools Page of my store where I link my favorite tools that can be purchased online at Amazon.com

I hope you enjoyed my little Tutorial! 

If you haven't enter in our weekly giveaway, you still have chance to win $50 Gift certificate to ThePartyRoom The new online Party Favors and Gift Shop. Don't miss it, Click here to Enter!

~ Party Printable ~ Wednesday What's New in the Shop?

I've been trying to design new printable party collections every week for the shop and I wanted to share them with you. I thought instead of posting about them one by one, and boring you, I will just start a new series of posts called Wednesday What's new in the Shop! and in the blog!...you get it? Wednesday, What's new ?  W :) I'm so excited I'm actually getting customers  yay! and they are liking my designs.

I had opened the Etsy shop more than a year ago but never really posted any items for sale. I'm very excited and decided now, and hope to get my Etsy Store going so if you need any designs for your party Please visit my Shop!

 Here there are two collections I worked on this week:   Super Mario and Strawberry Shortcake

Super Mario Bros.

I got a custom request for a customer who saw my Mario Kart Collection but wanted the same items but with the original Mario characters... I'm glad she requested because it turned out so cool!

You can't really see it in the picture above but I had so much fun with my oldest daughter coming up with names for the Food/Sweet Table labels... like Goomba Bubble Gumballs for the label with the brown mushroom {or potato} called 'GOOMBA'. Spiny Cheese for the turtle with the spikes called 'SPINY', we thought you can serve some cheese cubes with toothpicks, and for the girls we had a few labels with 'Princess Daisy' and 'Peach'.  These are just a few ideas but the labels can be customized with your food selection.

You have no idea how much I've learned about Mario Characters :) 

Strawberry Shortcake Party Printable

 

I got to use my new Flourish punch for the 'Photo Shoot'..and I loved it!  And I also have a few pics for you that I took while getting all set up for the shoot, to show you how to use all your printable files to make all of these items.  I'll have ready for you for tomorrow Thursday Tutorial another new series of post starting tomorrow! Stay tuned!

A few other new items in the shop this week:

Princess Wands and Crown Cupcake toppers

Strawberry Musical Notes and Guitar cupcake toppers

Ready made, and they go beautifully mixed with the strawberry party collection. 

 I'm getting lots of inquires about ready made items.  I enjoy crafting, I have a lot of craf tools and its therapeutic for me.  So I thought... why not? Now I'm printing and shipping to you. If you see any collection in the shop that you like me to make for you just let me know.

So I told you what is happening tomorrow on the blog {Tutorial}. Now Friday we are having another Fantastic Giveaway.. by the way did you enter in this week's giveaway? $50 Gift Card to shop at www.ThePartyRoom.ca the new Online Party Favors and Gift Shop. They have gorgeous party favors, you still have time, click here to Enter!

Still thinking what should be talking about on Mondays and Tuesdays.  Do you have any suggestions? please I'd love to know what you want me to write about. I know it's past 2 o'clock now,  I should have had this post ready hours ago.. I just going to hit the publish button now.  If you got this far...Thanks a lot for reading my post!

~ Giveaway ~ The Party Room 'Grand Opening'

I'm so excited to introduce you to the 'The Party Room'. The new online Party favors and Gift shop, owned by my dearest friends Ashley and Andrea.  From Kids Birthdays to Weddings, they sure have gorgeous favors for all your celebrations. It is s a project that has been a long time in the making and now is finally here! 

They are being so generous and giving away a $50 gift certificate to their shop to one lucky PartyTales fan.

These are just a few of the lovely favours you can find in their shop.

Aren't all adorable?  Those mushroom tins are perfect for a Super Mario Themed party.   What about the Mini Slot gumball machines? I had not seen those before {The tags says 'Hitting the Jackpot' ..Isn't that cute?}   I can't really pick a favorite, I like them all.   If you win, what would you buy with your gift certificate? 

 The Party Room is also offering a $15 discount when you purchase $75 to all PartyTales readers with code: grandO.  Hurry up, expires on March 14, 2012.

Contest runs till Sunday March 11, 2012 and the winner will be announced here and on Facebook.  You can get up to 7 entries.  Tasks required {like on facebook, visit the shop, leave a blog comment, Share the Giveaway ...} should be completed for entries to be valid.  Entries not completed will be cancelled.   

Do you want to win? Enter now in the widget below.   a Rafflecopter giveaway