Who doesn’t love a freebie? I designed these sweet Hershey kiss candy circles as Valentine’s Day gifts for my kids teachers. For my son the modern red and dark gray “Heart Breaker” set.
Download the Heartbreaker Candy Circles Here
And for my little lady a precious light pink and gray “Sweet Heart” set.
Download the Sweet Heart Candy Circle Set Here
Can you believe that Christmas is in two short weeks…eek?!?! I struggled a little bit this year creating the Holiday printables collection. At first I wanted to created a beautiful “Grown-Up” damask print with different tones of red but after making a few items I got stuck:( So I switched gears and went with a fun party set with red, green, pink and blue.
I love bell domes, it’s a great way to dress up your dessert table this year.
What’s a winter party without hot chocolate? I used the cupcake toppers as drink labels for the cups.
Yummy cupcakes and cookie lollipops.
How fun is the candy string of light? Here is the link to Hungry Happenings tutorial if you are interested.
Products & Credits:
505 Design+Paperie – Printable Christmas Collection, Photography & Styling
The Christmas Tree Shop– Square White Picture Frames
Dollar Tree – Glass Mugs
Meijers – Glass Bell Dome
Pier 1 – White Ruffled Cake Plate
Target – White Serving Plate, red twine, red& white twine, cookie lollipops
The Twinery – Green & White bakers twine
Happy October everyone! Last week I set up a Cupcake & Cocktails “Wicked” Halloween Party to showcase our new printable Halloween set. At the moment bold stripes are one of my favorite party trends. From the striped straws and cupcake liners to the rugby striped party printables – I love the bold look of the black and white with hint of color.
For the main table setting I used a green plastic table cloth with a black lace overlay and a beautiful candelabra centerpiece. The name plates for each guest were created using our editable food labels.
The flower arrangement is a rectangle glass vase that I covered using the pattern paper that is included in the set and topped if off with some beautiful lace.
These witch hat cupcake toppers are made of mini and standard size cupcake wrappers (tutorial via Half Baked).
Pick your poison at the cocktail station, from wicked wine to witches brew there is something for all my favorite ladies
I set the table using these great black and white striped paper plates I found at a local party store
and gave each of the ladies there very own witchy cupcake in a personalized take home box.
These pictures were submitted by the wonderful Holly at Paisley Petals Events. This is actually the second time I have had the honor of working with her, she is an absolute delight and extremely talented! She designed this party for her daughter and her friends to come over and decorate graham cracker gingerbread houses. Using our Holiday Sweet party Collection she created one stunning party. For more details on Holly’s Gingerbread House Decorating Party head over to her website www.paisleypetalevents.com
Polka dot cups & favor bags – Shop Sweet Lulu
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I created this party to display my new printable set and give some easy and inexpensive ideas for anyone hosting/attending a Kids Christmas Party this year. I wanted everything to be very lighthearted and child-like, of coarse Santa had to be included. Thank you so much to my good friend Monica of Andary Studio who captured the party perfectly and Tracie’s Sweet Treats for coming through at the last minute with delicious Red Velvet Cupcakes.
I set up my kids craft table – complete with plastic table cloth, it may not be the fanciest but they are 4 years old so it’s functional.
I used my daughters dress up trunk to display the dessert.
My main inspiration came from these adorable North Pole Cupcakes
To create the hot coco cups simply dip the rim in red chocolate and then again in red sugar sprinkles. This can be done a few days in advanced to save on time.
Various sizes of round and square paper plates for the place setting and the printable food label for the place card.
These lovely “North Pole Survival Kits” are so simple to make (tutorial coming soon!)
Milk Bottles – Starbucks frappuccino bottles cleaned and wrapped with drink bottle label topped off with 2% and a red polka dot straw
Rudolf Peeps – Chocolate Rudolf peeps on a lollipop stick – pretty simple but way cuter then throwing them on a plate.
Red Velvet Cupcakes – I added the red polka dot liner after with a dap of frosting and topped it with the printable cupcake topper
North Pole Snow Mounds – Mini powdered sugar doughnuts. I used a red striped straw cut in half and glued the mini North Pole flag and a sixlet to the top.
I covered clothes pins with glitery green paper to attach the red foam stockings and placed the centerpiece circle in the middle of the string.
Candy Cane Mint Milanos – Milano Cookies dipped half way in red chocolate and then dipped in crushed up candy canes/peppermints
Reindeer Doughnuts – Chocolate covered doughnut, pretezel cut in half for antlers, white chocolate chip for eyes and red ball for nose – make sure you remove that before serving;)
This party was created with mostly inexpensive store bought items displayed in a super cute way. Total, the desserts cost a whooping $25 and in all the party was less then $100.
Thank you again to everyone who helped put the party together
Check out the full printable Holly Jolly Christmas Collection
Holly Jolly Printable Set – 505 Design+Paperie
Photography – Andary Studio
Red Velvet Cupcakes – Tracie’s Sweet Treats
Peppermint Table Cloth & Place Mat, Square and round plates – Christmas Tree Shop
Polka Dot favor boxes, Straws and Cupcake Liners – The Bakers Confection
Glittery Stockings and Hot Coco Tin – Target
Candy Cane Mint Milanos Recipes – Hostess with The Mostess
Chippy, our Elf on the Shelf has been with us for almost 10 days and I think he maybe running out of places to fly back to. After searching the internet all I found was some naughty little Elves, making powder sugar snow angles and having marshmallow fights. My kiddies don’t need any ideas on how to get into trouble, they do a fine job all by themselves. Here are some elf on the shelf ideas – from the traditional hiding in the Christmas Tree to cleaning the bathroom mirror.
1. Sneaking in the Stocking and 2. Hiding out in the Christmas Tree
3. Fixing Toys with some Tools
4. My four year old came up with this idea “Chippy must get cold flying all the way to the North Pole every night, we should make him Hot Chocolate” – she is so thoughtful of others.
5. Taking a Shower – I used toilet paper for his “towels”
6. Listening to some Christmas music on the iPod
7. Reading a book…like The Elf on the Shelf
8. Cleaning Windows or 9. Vacuuming
10. Playing Dress up (for those of you with boys dressing up like a super hero)
11. Making himself a snack in the play Kitchen
12. Typing a letter to Santa
13. Eating a healthy snack (I used the top of a peeler to get the tiny “bit” marks)
I hope this sparks some creativity when placing your Elf on the Shelf tonight, I will be back on Monday with 12 more ideas.
Thanks to the wonderful post by Little Pumpkin Grace I decided to start a new family tradition – have The Elf on the Shelf bring a special “North Pole Breakfast”. Our first official Breakfast of Elves was a complete success. They were a little confused at first but once they saw he brought candy for breakfast, the real excitement set in.
Our friendly North Pole Elf had quite the spread for us.
Rudolf Doughnuts, Santa’s Special Hot Coco, Reindeer Trail Mix, North Pole Snow Mounds and Candy Cane Milk
He also left a wonderful personalized note and a couple of suggestions on how to remain on the Nice List this year.
After over sleeping by an hour, I finally got them up to see the surprise.
Here is the confused and still very sleepy munchkins as they got the first glimpse of the table set up.
Still a little unsure of what is going on, but there was presents, so they went with it.
And then the questions began, I can’t even tell you how many she asked.
Every single picture I took, her mouth was open and she was either asking or telling me something about our elf friend, it was adorable.
My sweet little guy was just laughing and smiling away.
After much discussion they decided our happy little elf should be named, Chippy
The sneaky little guy that made the whole thing happen;) Thanks, Chippy
Party Goods:
Printable Set – 505 Design+Paperie
White Picture Frame – Marshalls Home Goods
Santa Mug – Walmart
Polka Dot Liners & Striped Straws– The Bakers Confection
Peppermint Table Cloth & Place Mat – Christmas Tree Shop
Candy Cane Stripped Paper – Hobby Lobby
“A” & “J” Ornament – Target
Here’s a little sneak peak at our new Holly Jolly Christmas Collection – now available in the shop.
I am very excited to share our brand new Printable Halloween Collection. When I sat down to create this Halloween Party set I wanted to make sure it included all the things you would need to celebrate this spooktaculor holiday. Weather you are having a monstrous Halloween bash or a fun play date, this set has you covered! A big thanks to Monica at Andary Studio , she did an amazing job capturing all the photos.
I backed the Enter {at your own risk} party sign with some black sparkly cardstock and bright purple cutout spider web cardstock paper.
I filled my kids toy storage container with all the party goodies. These little cubbies are great for kid friendly parties because everything is at there level.
Black and white spider web ribbon wrapped around a water bottle and topped with our printable drink label.
Top: Letter panel Happy Halloween Banner
Bottom Left: White Gable Box wrapped with layers of ribbon and cupcake toppers in cans filled with M&M’s
Bottom right: Centerpiece Circle in a simple white container
Yummy gourmet candy apples topped off with our cupcake topper.
{Check back this week for the delicious tutorial}
Full Printable Halloween Collection
Party Printables & Styling: Five O’ Five Design+Paperie
Photography: Andary Studio
Spider Web Ribbon: Michael’s
White Gable Box: Oriental Trading
Hopefully my ideas inspire you for your next Halloween Party.
