Jewel Box Ballerina $100 Giveaway!

I'm very excited about this week's WONDERFUL GIVEAWAY from Jewel Box Ballerina! Win $100 in beautiful fabric & feather flower tutorials! You know that you want to learn how to make these beauties!

Jewel Box Ballerina creates tutorials on how to make fabric and feather flowers that can be used for weddings, party decor and favors, photo props, children's accessories, and even home decor. Her tutorial patterns have full color images and easy to follow step by step instructions that will help the reader create fabric flowers with professional results. 

-To complement the fabric and feather flower tutorials, Jewel Box has made free tutorials on their website on how to use the feather and fabric flowers like:

How to Make Embellished Boutique Elastic Lace / Skinny Headband (with sizing chart)
How to Assemble a Bouquet
How to Make a Fabric or Feather Flower Pen
How to Make a Bracelet
How to Make a Ring
How to Make a Flower Stem
How to Make a Flower Brooch
How to Make a Flower Clip
How to Make Shoe Clips
How to Make a Ring Pillow
How to Make a Fascinator

You can find more details in their shop at www.jewelboxballerina.com

Want to save 20% during the giveaway? Use code 'KARA20' at checkout!

Enter the giveaway at the bottom of this post...

HOW TO ENTER THE GIVEAWAY:

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1. Visit Jewel Box Ballerina, choose your favorite tutorials, then come back & leave a comment about which ones they were.

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8. Pin some photos in Jewel Box Ballerina's website & come back and leave a comment saying you did so.

Don't forget to save 20% during the giveaway by using code 'KARA20' at checkout!

*Giveaway ends on Tuesday, February 7th at 11:59 PM*

Cupid's Post Office - Valentine's Day Party

And now, the cutest CUPID'S POST OFFICE VALENTINE'S DAY PARTY submitted by Debbie Messmer of Wants and Wishes.

Debbie said- “I wanted to share with you my Valentines Day Collection! My theme was Cupid's Post Office. There are 2 parts to this party.

First was the dessert table that was filled with sweets and treats that were cupid worthy, and then, a Valentine station.... aka Cupid's post office... where the kids made valentines and "delivered" them to everyones mailboxes.

Since Cupid's post office was our theme we incorporated a lot of postal items, including candy bar wrappers that look like envelopes, post cards, and stamps. My favorite is the '5 things I heart about you'.  The favor toppers were square like a postage stamp and had the seal of 'delivered from Cupid's Post Office' on them. Also, we included hearts and arrows throughout the collection, seen on our shot through the heart brownies and arrow garlands.  We created arrows out of paper straws and the arrow points and heart were "feathers". They are included in our Valentine collection. Very easy and fun to make! This would be a great activity to do with all the kids. We had fun heart boxes that you could fill with treats, and a little note. My favorite part... well one of my favorites is our heart cupcake toppers. They are 3 dimensional heart pockets!!! Fill with candy and a little note to send some love this Valentine's Day on top of your cupcakes! We have also attached the heart pockets to a boxes and twigs, then filled them with candy and love notes that the kids could take off the tree. We are having '14 days of how to use our printable Valentine collection' for your Valentine's starting at wantsandwishesdesign.blogspot.com.

For Cupid's post office we created a red and pink stripe awning to invite the kids in to sit and make their valentines. The back drop was a hand drawn chair rail and paneling on butcher paper and red and white stripe wrapping paper as the "wallpaper". We strung garlands, rick rack and mailboxes from the awning. We wanted a spot where the kids could create their valentines. They had an array of containers (boxes, paper bags and clear bags), candy, and valentines to make, allowing them to create a special valentine for each one on their list.”

Credits:

Stylizing and photography: Wants and Wishes
Printable collection: Wants and Wishes

Sweet Shoppe Candy Party

I have a lot of exciting things to announce. The first being that Zurchers Party and Wedding Supplies contacted me a few months ago and hired me as their new in-store party designer. It's been a lot of fun! I am now able to show you the first of many parties I'm styling for them. This SWEET SHOPPE CANDY PARTY was a blast to design and execute. I just love all the colors...and SUGAR!

Most everything you see throughout this party is from Zurchers, including the adorable apothecary jars. Often, the right candy can be so hard to find, but with the huge selection at Zurchers you don't have to search and search through hundreds of online shops.

My favorite things about this party-- the rock candy cake, the ric rac / paper and candy necklace bunting, the milk bottles, the bubble gum machine drink dispenser {took the top off my gumball machine and replaced it with a beverage dispenser}, the various lollipops, the pink sixlets, the paper straws, the funky ribbon on the candy scoops and favor pails, the chocolate dipped candy sticks and the chevron bags.

A huge thank you to my party design assistant, Brynne. I couldn't do any of this without the help of you and Amber! 

Vendor Credits:

Party Styling- Kara's Party Ideas

All Party Supplies & Candy- Zurchers Party and Wedding Supplies

Cake- Sweeten Your Day

Photography- Laura Bunker Photography