I’m in love…..Again…!!!
Beautiful Party filled with the sweetest yummiest treats.

Talk about a Cake with a Cherry on Top….
this one “takes the cake”.

Another beautiful party display using our Pink Dot Paper Straws…!!!      Yummy…wish I had one.. Love this….:)

And these beautiful Soda Fountain Cookies….LOVE these….!!  Just so amazed at the creativity and talent…Love how she used our Pink Dot Paper Straws

Need a “Spoonful of Sugar”……. Here you go…:) Pretty Spoon shaped Cookie complete with personalized  letter on it’s handle…..

For more fun ideas please visit Paige Reese on her blog. She owns a bakeshop and I’m sure will make some of her beautiful treats for YOU….!!!  http://www.paige-reese.blogspot.com/

Pink Polka Dot Paper Straws:
http://www.thesugardiva.com/item_571/Paper-Straws-…………-Bubble-Gum-Pink-Dots.htm
Until next time,
Cheers,

Your Creative Party Hostess
Dianne

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Shout out time!! I’ve noticed that I have some people who are fairly faithful about leaving comments on the posts here at Creative Party Place. Just wanted to say THANK YOU to Wendy from Whimsy & Wise Events for being an active commenter over the last few months. Head on over to her blog and leave her a comment today!

Below are just some of the parties that I have planned for my little girls. I hope that it will led to inspiration for your next party.

Ni Hao! Kai-Lan
for under $60

Almost everything on this table is handmade. www.nickjr.com saved me this year. On their website you can find all of these printables and more for any of their Nick characters (i.e. Dora, Diego, Backyardigans).

My very happy 3rd year old possing in front of her Kai-Lan theme party table! So, let’s start with the cupcakes. The cupcakes are semi-homemade using box mix and tub icing. I topped each with a fortune cookie (found at Walmart, 12 for $2.99). (Cake, icing and cupcake liners at Target for $5.20 total.) The sprinkles I had on hand. Hint: double wrap the cupcakes with 2 different colors to make more festive.

The invitations: from www.nickjr.com

Decorations: These cute lanterns are printables from www.nickjr.com. I run them out on my inkjet, cut and assembled. They are really cute but time consuming. I only had the energy to make 3 total. Instead of expensive photopaper, I just used a white cardstock and used the economy print setting to save ink. This worked just fine. (Cost: $0, since I had the ink and paper on hand.)

The  small blue lanterns (above) are made from toilet paper rolls that I collected for over a month. I covered each with a blue cardstock (from our craft box stash), added the red strip from the streamer roll, punched 2 holes and hung them with string (also from our craft box). (Cost: $1 for 2 rolls of steamers at Dollar Tree, which will be used again in the party.)

The cute printable “fortune tellers” (below) are from www.nickjr.com. Also I printed the “Say it Two Ways” card from the same website (left).

And, the Kai-Lan fans were printables along with the cup art. The cup art is actually a juice box planter printable but I printed it out from my inkjet, used markers to color in, then cut out and taped to the front of the cups. I also run out and cut out the straw toppers.

Panda Oragami. Found on, you guessed it, nickjr.com. The google eyes were $1 at Joann’s and the template I printed out. The older kids like doing this craft. They thought it was neat since they had never experienced paper folding before. The little kids need adult help.

Party Favors: I used more saved toliet paper rolls. Cover the roll with light blue tissue paper, secured 1 end with 1/2 of a pipe cleaner, fill with small candy (Kisses, candy corn & Reese’s), then secure the open end with the other half of the pipe cleaner. I finished it off with a red band of streamer. (Cost: tissue paper I had on hand. Pipe cleaner $1 at Dollar Tree, candy $1 for candy corn. I had Kisses & Reese’s in the pantry.)

Food: Koolaid ($ .52), frozen pizzas ($15.33 at Target), Mandrain Oranges (2 cans for $1.78), mixed veggies (brocolli, cauliflower & carrots $6.27), veggie dip ($3.79), chips ($3), ice cream cups (12 for $2.99).

Misc: Pocci chocolate sticks ($4.99), chopsticks (10 pack for $1.07 at Walmart), table clothes (2 for $2 at Dollar Tree), also from Dollar Tree I bought all the plates, cake plates, forks, cups and napkins for $1 each (total of $5). So, if you’re keeping track that was a GRAND TOTAL OF $59.93!

Advice:

• Make a “wish list” of what you would like to have at the party then find ways to do it cheaper.
• Check your local Dollar Tree or Dollar Store for unusual items. You would be suprised what these stores have.
• Shop on Clearance. I bought Parker’s birthday presents, a Kai-Lan lunch box for $2.50 and a Hello Kitty Tent, for just $4.98 on clearance!
• When making decorations be sure to allow plenty of time to cut out and make. I started in September making everything for this party.
• Search the web for printables. This saved me big time!
• Search around your house to see what you might have on hand already. My theme colors came from the tissue paper and colored cardstock that I had on hand.

Punk Princess.

This party was for my daughter’s 7th birthday. I designed the skull and cross bones in Adobe Illustrator and had the cake shop make an eatable image from my print out. The large confetti on the table is from a scrapbook website that I printed out on my ink jet printer, then cut out each image and taped to the table cloth boughht at Dollar Tree.
The blog is: http://saras-scraps.blogspot.com

These images are also from that scrapbook blog above. I enlarged the images, printed them out and cut and tied the images together with black streamers. I also made each image 2 sided.

I bought some cupcakes from the bakery and made the cupcake picks by printing out the large confetti pieces and gluing each to a toothpick.

Candyland Birthday.

The invitations for my daugther’s 2nd birthday was a Candyland theme. I purchased a sucker photo image from a popular photo website (sorry, I can’t remember which one). In Adobe Illustrator I created the type in a circle, then opened that file into Adobe Photoshop Elements. This made the type a transparent layer. From there I changed the transparency to 25% of the sucker image in the background then positioned the Illustrator type on a top layer. I set all the other text on several other layers. I also positioned on a layer a 100% image of the sucker (side by side), this served as the reverse side of the invite. I ran the images out to fit (front and back images) on an 8.5×11 sheet of photo card stock to my ink jet printer, cut them out and glued each the images together with a large popsicle stick in between. I then wrote “You’re Invited” on the popsicle stick with a Sharpy marker and handed the invites out to the invited guests.

For the party favors I created in Photoshop Elements a wrap for a Hershey bar. I started with a freebie download of the wrap from a website I wish I had wrote down and modified it to fit my needs. (sorry again)

As you can see I am no cake designer. My 7 year old also helped decorate the cake too. I make a 3 layer cake then used some mini cupcakes and mini ice cream cone cupkaes to decorate the cake. We got a little crazy with the sprinkles and candy!

Truly a homemade cake…but it tasted sooooo good!

For the table setting  I used bright colors as in the game Candyland. The table cloth, napkins, crazy straws and plastic (reuseable) cups I purchased at the Dollar Store.

And of course, oodles of candy. Whatever was leftover went home with guests as part of the party favors! I used simple brown paper bags for the take home loot along with a Hershey bar.

Candy for the adults: Rose’s Pomegranite Martini. Just use the mix, add vodka, shake with ice and served in a sugar rimmed glass. Yummy! Caution, after 2 of these I couldn’t photograph my feet let alone my daughter opening presents, so go easy on these! Or, at least take as many pictures as

This Pinkalicious Birthday Party was originally hosted by Leslie from Along the Road.
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Ok, who remembers the movie Sixteen Candles? Remember the sister’s wedding with pink Pink and MORE PINK? Well Leslie knows how to do pink and she totally makes it PINKALICOUS! This party is every little girls dream.

Enjoy Leslie’s Party….

Pink party lanterns and Martha Stewart Tissue flowers were hung above the party table.

Pinkalicious with her Grandparents

Yes..I know this dress is over the top pink, but it needed to be!

Party guests enjoying the food…

Liv and her girls….

This table became the “green food” table. Remember

The Party table.

The girls had flower and heart shaped sandwiches and pink treats.

The parents’ spread…

Pink lemonade, of course. What else would you drink at a Pinkalicious party?

Cupcakes from Tart Bakery..

Pink flamingo party picks….plasticwear wrapped and sealed with a pink cupcake sticker.

Pinkalicious water labels also from Big Day Creations.com

I got very inexpensive gold wands from Oriental Trading Co, and glued ribbons to them to match Pinkalicious’ wand in the book.

Pink tiaras were given to each girl with the wand when they got to the party.

Goody boxes full of cute pink treasures and treats…

Little chairs just waiting for the party day!

Shawn called this the “Pink nightmare” room for awhile!

First we will visit Heather over at Cookie Mondays and check out her Bug Party

To see more bug party details and pictures visit the original party post.

Next ‘Along the Road’ is Leslie’s Pinkalicous Party…

visit the original party post to see more pinkalicous pictures!

Hungry from blog party hopping? Then head on over to Vanessa’s Cookie Swap!

Wanna see more cookie swap goodness? Visit Vanessa’s original party post!

Today’s party is so fun for me to post….it’s the birthday party of my best friend’s daughter! I am so fortunate to be called “Auntie Kelly” by this darling little girl, Emma. And am so excited to share some of these adorable details that her mom, Teresa, did for her 5th birthday party!

Emma is a girly girl…we’re talking pink, pink and more pink! So coming up with a theme wasn’t difficult – a color palette centered around the color pink, throw in some flower accents and giant cupcakes – and you have a party fit for a princess. Teresa ordered her party invitations from Tiny Prints, and also found coordinating labels there to use on goodie bags and Emma’s thank you notes.

This party was all about the details….and Teresa made everything herself! The party took place in a white tent outside, and was decorated with pink pom poms and Parallel Ribbed Pink 12-Inch Round Paper Lanternlanterns, all hanging from polka dotted ribbon. Emma L-O-V-E-S flowers. Instead of filling the space with fresh flowers, she decided to make balloon flowers. There were large ones floating around the yard, small ones attached to each girl’s drink straw, and even smaller ones that she made into a ring for each girl to wear. I should probably mention that she had a whole lot of help from Emma’s dad on these! Teresa found a youTube video that gives great directions on how to make the flower balloons and was nice enough to share it with us. So, if you are interested….check out this link.

The cupcake toppers were personalized with each girl’s name on them – which also served as the perfect place card. She presented the cupcakes on a Wilton 4-Tier Stacked Cupcake and Dessert Tower that she had decorated with pink ribbon. Note that the pink ribbon PERFECTLY matches the birthday girl’s Lilly Pulitzer dress! Of course!

It was a happy, happy birthday for Emma Jane!

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