Sunday, December 27, 2009

winter wonderland cocoa party

my next winning feature is this stunning cocoa party hosted by tiffany at creative outlet. isn't it beautiful?! she did a wonderful job. i just love it. congratulations on winning, tiffany!

here's tiffany's post in her own words...

"I had a wonderful time at our annual cocoa party and even more fun planning and working on it. Our theme this year was a snowy winter wonderland. Inspired from This winter wonderland tablescape from Inspired Bride that we saw on Hostess With the Mostess (one of my all time favorite places for inspiration)

For the invitations we used the "Sweet Treat" cups from Stamp'n Up to add a little more snow to the invitation.

I saw this idea once on Martha Stewart quite a while ago and they turned out pretty cute if I do say so myself. I took styrofoam balls and sprayed them with spray adhesive and rolled them in fake snow.

We took the branch idea from Inspired Bride and sprayed these branches with the snow in the can and they "looked" great but when it came time to use them the snow started flaking off. SO, I should have used the instructions from Inspired Bride and spray painted them white- note to self. We also hung snow flakes from the branches for a more wintery feel. Love how they turned out!!

I am a huge fan of Amy Atlas and love her simple yet amazing table scape's she does. So in her honor, I tried.

We tried our hand at cake pops from Bakerella, they're really not too difficult and are super cute so if you ever need a fun new sweet to try you should really give these a go. (I'd do chocolate cake next time instead of yellow)

We also got together to decorate snowflake sugar cookies that turned out really cute. (and yummy)


We also had ordered powdered sugar doughnut holes (cause they look like snowballs) but didn't get exactly what we were hoping for so we improvised and rolled our glazed doughnut holes in powdered sugar.

And to finish off the night we sent everyone home with more cakepops to enjoy later. We put these bags together using American Crafts Merry Mint paper and hung a snowflake in the window."

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

winter candyland party

my next winning feature is this ultra fun winter candyland party submitted by brandy over at simply creative insanity. i was GASPING when i opened the link. what a DARLING party she threw for her child's kindergarten class. i'm sure they were all in awe. awesome job, brandy!!

all the goodies...




children's table centerpieces...

drink tags created by the tomkat studio...

Sunday, December 20, 2009

cowboy carnival party

my next feature is this adorable cowboy carnival party thrown by julie {radmacher.blogspot.com}. what cute ideas! i love the cowboy twist added to the classic carnival theme. so clever.




to see more go to julie's blog here.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

zebra birthday party

and my next winner....nancy and her daughters zebra party! you've got to check this party out. it is a.dor.able! to see detailed explanations and how to's go to nancy's blog, a to z celebrations.
congrats on winning, nancy!






















 
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