Customer Cupcake Party

Here are some more pictures from customer Samantha's
cupcake party. What a great job, Samantha! Thanks so much for sending your pictures in- I absolutely love those poms!

Crepe Paper Rose Pom Tutorial

A customer this week sent me pictures of her Dimpleprints party and she had created these darling crepe paper poms. Thanks to the House of Smiths blog, I found a tutorial and thought I'd post it here for you all to see! Such a great idea and alternative to the typical tissue hanging poms!

Supplies Needed:

Styrofoam Ball Forms
Crepe Paper Streamers {Color of your choosing}
Glue Gun & Lots of Glue Sticks
Roll of Tape
Measuring Stick

1. Cut the crepe paper strips at 24 inches in length.

2. Crumple the strips to make them softer and more fabric looking, then straighten them out.

3. Begin to roll, starting small… and then get a little looser, like a real rose.
Periodically, about 4 or 5 turns in, put a dot of glue on the end, by your thumb, to keep it from unraveling.

4. Wind the paper around the middle base roll, and twist at the same time so that it looks MORE like a rose and LESS like a cinnamon roll. Be patient with the first few flowers. It takes a couple to get it down. But once you do… you’ll fly through them!

5. Gather the end piece of crepe paper and then add a dab of glue to the outside of the rose itself, and stick it on the edge.

6. Set it down and let the glue dry!

7. After you have a few roses done, begin gluing them to the styrofoam ball. If some roses have longer stems than others just cut off the stem so that they can sit nicely flat on the ball form.

8. Add a little puddle of hot glue on the ball, lightly press the rose on and you’re good to go! Use a roll of tape to help keep the ball from rolling around on the table. Make sure not to put the roses TOO close together or they’ll look crowded.

9. Once they are all done, use ribbon and some sewing push pins to adhere the ribbon to the ball and hang them anywhere you want!

Thanks, Samantha for your pictures and thank you Shelley from House of Smiths for your tutorial!

Sweet Cookie and Milk Inspiration Board

A sweet party idea that I love is a cookies and milk party! Use chocolate, strawberry and regular milk to play up color ideas, and put flower arrangements in "vintage" colored or clear milk bottles (super cheap at the thrift store!) to make things a little girly-er!

1. Flower in milk bottles

2. Chocolate chip cookie cake

3. Pink printed balloons

4. Martha Stewart chocolate chip cookie recipe

5. Chocolate, strawberry and white milk

6. Snickerdoodles in cute jar

7. Sweet Cookies and Milk invitation by Dimpleprints on Etsy

8. Pink flowers in turquoise milk jar

Customer Party...Pink & Brown Little Cupcake

Heather did a wonderful job with her daughter's pink & brown cupcake birthday, all the details down to the cupcake earrings-cute! She used my Little Cupcake-Pink & Brown printable party (available now, please contact me, in my shop soon!). Thanks for sharing your pictures. Be sure to check out more of Heather's creations here:

www.heathernicoleblog.blogspot.com
www.heathernicolestudios.etsy.com

Happy Celebrating, Carli

Sneak Peek: Abby's Sweet Shoppe

Here is a sneak peek of my daughter's 6th birthday party currently in the works. So I tried last year to have a candy themed party (for the 2nd time, she had one when she was 2 and LOVED it!), but she was way into Tinkerbell last year so went that route (much to my dismay, but it is her birthday not mine!). I know there are a ton of darling sweet treats/candy themed parties out there and after seeing all of them Abby decided she DID want one. So I got my creative juices flowing (okay they are always flowing often too much, hence a craft room full of half finished products, so many ideas, so little time!) to come up with something different. I don't like doing what everyone else is doing, so I can headed a direction I don't usually go for kids parties. If you can't tell by my designs, I usually go for big, fun, bright & busy. This time, I decided to go for a more vintage feel & look; Abby's Sweet Shoppe was born. I am going for a pink, red (her 2 favorite colors) and aqua/turqoise-ish blue color. I know it is not what most would expect from my designs, but I love it, I think it is going to be darling! Your thoughts? Any creative ideas out there? Please share.

More to come, when I return from vacation.





Resources: I have no idea where most of these photos came from, I have been gathering them for about 10 months, long before I had a blog (okay I am a little crazy and start planning a wee bit early!).