princess

February 21, 2013 2 Comments

pink polka dot party decorations

I love polka dots, I love pink, I love parties… AND, I love choices. With our new polka dot party decorations and supplies you can shop over 20 color combinations, a few of which are pink. {grin} The party decorations ideas are really endless.

Each set in the party store offers printable cupcake picks (aka party circles), cupcake wrappers, bottle wrappers, napkin rings and pattern sheets. We can create banners, cello toppers, dessert tags and more for you as well, just convo us or shop our a la carte section and leave the pattern you want in the comments of your order. (For example, pink and tangerine polka dot beverage wrappers with the initial M and name Meagan.)

You can also purchase each item individually and/or mix and match!

The cupcake picks (party circles) can have a name, an initial or an age! A perfect kids party idea making the birthday girl or boy feel extra special. {My boys love seeing their names all over the party when it’s their big day.}

Here’s a quick look at your party decoration color combination and font choices:

Come shop the party store for these designs and over 50 more collections! And as always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake, create and celebrate!

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tea party inspiration

This morning I’m sharing some lovely tea party ideas like this sweet princess tea party from Laura Bunker Photography. I just LOVE the glass slipper favor idea. So clever.

And the ruffle cakes in this “Madish” tea party from Sweetapolita are just beautiful.

And how better to surprise your little girl when she comes home from school on her 13th birthday… a lovely mother daughter tea party from Crissy’s Crafts!

Oh, and what party is more girly than a baby shower?! This color-rich yellow tea party on Oh Happy Day is understated and perfect.

As always, I hope you’re inspired to craft, bake and create!

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customer: Katie Ann turns 3

I really enjoy receiving pictures from customers. It just makes my day to see those happy little faces and all the smart details the parents pull together.

Just recently we received a note from our customer, Jen. She wrote “Thank you so much for the ideas and inspiration! From the invitations to the how-to tulle napkin rings, my daughter’s 3rd birthday was full of your touches. I hope you like the painting we made based on the princess castle theme.”

I was thrilled when I opened the pictures and saw that she had taken our princess castle collection design and made it into this beatutiful painting embellished with tiny jewels. Such talent Jen and her mom have!

Jen did a fabulous job of decorating those blank rooms you get at play places. They typically give you very little time to set up so that tells me that Jen is one organized mom!

For the princess placesetting, Jen purchased our princess castle printables and pink and green polka dot plates. For the prince placesetting, she made the napkin ring, a friend of hers made the beverage wrapper and straw slip to match, and those fun crowns are from Chocolate Cake Club.

And last but never least, my very favorite part, a lovely picture of the birthday girl. Isn’t she just adorable with all those bouncy curls?! Happy Birthday Katie Ann! {Thanks again Jen for allowing us to share.}

As always, I hope you’re inspired!

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If you’ve invited guests with our invitations or styled your party with table decor or printable items from The Celebration Shoppe, we would love to see! Send a link or pictures to customercare@celebrationshoppe.com. (By submitting information and/or images you are giving us the right to publish your events details with the appropriate credits.)

customer: princess Nicole is 4

A very good friend of mine hosted a prince & princess party for her beautiful little girl a few months ago with the decor, printables and custom cookies from my princess collections: prince and princess and princess castle. We even created a few new printables just for the occasion, including

bottle wrappers (this printable includes this castle design and our white crown on hot pink dots, not shown),

favor tags,

cello toppers,

and dessert labels.

Back to the party, the little prince charmings went home with castle cookies and these sword/ax combos (my boys of course used them on each other!) and Nicole’s royal court went home with crown cookies, tiaras and some darling tulle wands (seen in the first image) that her mommy, Raquel, whipped up.

And I just had to share a few pics of the birthday girl having way too much fun dressed in a beautiful little tutu and bouncing in her castle. Oh yes, there was a castle and so much more! {Thanks for letting me share some of your pictures Raquel!}

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thank your royal guests

We’re working on a number of new projects and one is for our popular princess collections: prince and princess and princess castle. This new favor tag is just a little peek at the new printable designs to come later this week (and yes, these fabulous cookies from our partners at Sweet Tooth Cottage are available in the shoppe now! E-mail us at customercare@celebrationshoppe.com with any questions).

Happy Tuesday everyone! And as always, I hope you’re inspired!

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customer: princess Ava

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Little Ava turned four a few weeks ago and her mom, Suzy, made sure she was treated like a princess!

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Don’t you just love the DIY ribbon topiary? Suzy made two of them! And did you notice the “A” and the “4″ woven into each?

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The color palette didn’t stop at the dessert table. Suzy adorned her guest tables with pink and green polka dot table decor from my princess collection, edible centerpieces and tulle chair wraps. Just lovely!

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Here’s another look at this beautiful table showing off the fun crown favors.

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Thanks for allowing us to share your little one’s party Suzy! And thanks to Amy & Bri of Savvy Moms Guide, good friends of Suzy’s, for blogging about the big day and sending it our way!

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customer: perfectly pink

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I was admiring this beautiful party over at P is for Party, especially the height of this room with the pom poms… so lovely… when I realized this very talented mom, Christine, purchased some of her table decor from my princess castle collection! Her little one, Sadie, is shown in the bottom right image, tuckered out after what was obviously an exquisite and fun filled party.

For all the details, many more pictures (courtesy of Leslie Gaworecki of Goodlight Photography) and all the fabulous resources used to pull this perfectly pink party together, hop over and see Christi’s original post.

Happy Monday everyone!

a royal birthday

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We launched a fabulous, if I do say so, Prince & Princess birthday party invitation last year. It’s fairytale castle and fire breathing dragon make it perfect whether you have a little prince, a little princess or both. And this year, we launched a slightly girlier version, Princess Castle, focusing more on the castle and a whimsical gated entryway. I’m not sure which I like more.

So with our new design we also wanted to style a new table. Don’t you just love this fuchsia and white polka dot plate and napkin set with lime green rim!?

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To this we added favors including enchanted carriage boxes:

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Princess crowns for the special girl:

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Royal court tiaras for all of her guests:

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And of course we had to create some new printables to go with our already popular pink polka dot cupcake wrappers and princess crown and castle picks:

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Like crown embellished napkin rings:

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And princess straw slips:

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Stop in our shoppe to check out all the details and more. I hope we’ve inspired you for your next celebration!

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pink & brown tablescape

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We often get calls from customers asking about items in photos that we used for staging, but don’t sell in the shoppe, so I’m going to start doing a better job of giving you all the details. We staged our new baby bump shower a few weeks ago. Most of the items we offer in our decor, but here are the few things we don’t:

Placemats – these are just 12×12 sheets of DCWV (Die Cuts With A View) Glitter Pink-Brown Flower Dots cardstock from the craft store.

Candy vase – I was browsing the candy store (as I do too often) and ran across these strawberry flavored malted milk balls. Well after I thought “yummy!” I thought how adorable they could be in the new baby bump tablescape. So long story short, I melted down some pink chocolate, covered a few pretzel rods, sprinkled them with pink crystals (available in the shoppe) and settled them into a ribbon embellished short vase of strawberry flavored malted milk balls.

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Tulle napkin ring – I was browsing for inspiration for our new black & yellow buzz theme and ran across a table setting that used a black chrysanthemum as a napkin ring. It was really beautiful so I thought about trying to find one at the craft store. I wasn’t in luck so I decided to make my own version for baby bump using pink tulle. To make these yourself you’ll need pink glitter tulle and florist wire. And here are the easy step-by-steps:

Cut 12 4×4″ squares of tulle and stack them.
Fold the group like an accordian.
Pinch them in the center and wrap them with a small piece of florist wire.
Trim the ends as shown.
Cut a straight line between each fold to the florist wire separating the folds into individual petals.
Carefully separate the individual petals and pull upward to give the flower fullness.

It takes a little patience, but it’s worth it… don’t you think. {wink}

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