Monthly Archives: April 2016

Let’s Flamingle! A Tropical Flamingo Birthday

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Let’s Flamingle! A tropical flamingo party full of vibrant color, sweet treats and and good drinks made for a memorable 7th birthday bash!  This fun party is full of great, budget-friendly ideas that can be used in all kinds of parties!

Party Highlights:

  • Pineapple pudding cups
  • Paper rosette dessert table backdrop
  • White petal cake topped with flamingo’s
  • Adorable flamingo invitation and stationery
  • Tissue pineapple decorations
  • Fun flamingo hand print paint activity

This fabulous flamingo party was featured on Kara’s Party Ideas, here!

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Pineapple pudding with hand made chocolate greenery!

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How about setting up a little self serve mini bar where guests can come and choose their tropical refreshments and sample all the yummy cocktails, kid approved and some special reserve mommy and daddy approved!IMG_0144IMG_0180 IMG_0153IMG_0184 IMG_0181IMG_0207IMG_0208

He’ll have some of what mommy’s having!

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Finger painting is always a hit for the kiddos. This simple craft was a great favor to take home too!

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The full party package is available here…

https://www.etsy.com/listing/240432836/

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For your next little one’s birthday choose this cute theme and Let’s Flamingle!

xo

Happy celebrating!

Tania

Nautical Baptism

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Welcome aboard Baby Nikola!  Faith, Hope and Love was the inspiration for my youngest crew member’s Nautical themed Baptism.

Party Highlights:

  • Blue mason jars tied with sailor’s rope + a hanging lifesaver
  • Sailboat cupcakes with blue and white swirl frosting
  • Anchor cookies and cake pops
  • Coordinating paper pinwheels and rosettes
  • Beautiful flower arrangements

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The nautical theme is very popular so I opted to design my party package with a color scheme just off from the obvious; navy and aqua.  Pops of red were incorporated to keep the table and decor fun and fresh.

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The gorgeous cake pops were made Carmen’s Sweet Creations and really helped the cute factor on the sweets table.  Anchor sugar cookies are by Lexi of Pink Frosting.

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Each table had a beautiful mason jar centerpiece filled with big beautiful white peonies, hydrengas, double lisianthus, vendella roses, lime carnations and button poms.  Flower arranging is another hobby I would love to dabble in when I have more time!  Adding some paper pinwheels and rosettes made with the coordinating patterned papers really helped unify the theme throughout the room.

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Using twine and a white peppermint lifesaver, these mason jars went from cute to adorable!

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Sailboat cupcakes were an easy way to change up the cupcake toppers and a perfect example of smooth sailing ;)

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Many of the pieces of this baptism set are incorporated into Nikola’s bedroom decor still!  The name banner and this ‘God Bless’ sign made their home on his nursery bookshelf.

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The paper rosettes had various pictures of Nikola at the center which was a special way to share sweet moments of home life with friends and family.  Small paper punched confetti was placed at each table as well!

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Sweet blessing to you my baby boy!  You are anchored with love, faith and hope in this family and with God.

xo

Tania

Find the full party package in my Etsy shop, click on the picture below…

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Construction Birthday Party

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CAN YOU DIG IT! Prepare to get bulldozed with this Construction Party because this it is LOADED with creative ideas!  My boy’s and their crew were in hard hat heaven with adorable themed treats, creative signs and classic work zone decorations like caution tape, construction cones, yield signs and more! So let’s DIG IN!

My favorite details are:

  • “Caution” wrapped Kitkat cakes
  • Toolbox lunches + “Under Construction” chocolate bars
  • “Wet Paint” can & Rice Krispie Treat paint brushes
  • Chocolate “Nuts & Bolts”
  • Custom hard hats + personalized place cards
  • Amazing cookie art by Cookievonster

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Because two of my boys are born on the same day, I combined their birthday celebration but to make it fair, they each got their own cake!  Karlo chose the Kitkat cake as I was pinning inspiration on Pinterest.  The Kitkat bars attached easily and the ‘caution’ tape nicely secured everything in place.  I topped the cake with Oreo crumbs and some chocolate rocks (this was a choclate lovers dream cake) and to be honest, the assembly was far easier than I expected.

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We have a favorite chocolate cake mix that is tried and true in our home and I am so grateful to Amanda from i am baker because she transformed me from box cake star to homemade and from scratch diva!  Here is the recipe for ‘The Perfect Chocolate Cake’.

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I purchased the ‘nuts & bolts’ mold on Amazon.com and the process of making the chocolate treats was so easy.  First, I melted the wafers I bought at Micheal’s in the microwave, stopping to mix everything thirty seconds.  Once melted, I poured the chocolate into a Wilton squeeze tube and filled the molds which went right into the fridge to set.  It took several batches, but I think they turned out so good!

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To make the ‘paint brushes’ I skewed the prepackaged Rice Krispie Treats and then dipped them in melted chocolate.  Letting the melted chocolate drip down only made them look more like wet paint brushes.  The paint can was purchased at the Home Depot and I wrapped it in two sheets of patterned papers which are included in the party package.  Taping the ‘wet paint’ sign was the the perfect final touch!

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I decided to line the envelopes with some of the patterned papers.  It was a simple detail, but one that made the invite more custom.

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I prefer to wrap Smarties boxes with the chocolate bar wrappers as it is a nice neat fit!

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Each guest had his/her own ‘toolbox treats’ which was filled with all sorts of yummy sweets to keep them fueled up for all the work at this job site!

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Kids table setup!
Using black paper to as a table runner, I added some white strips to pave the road!

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Hard Hat Area : I got a set of 12 for under 10$ on Amazon.com!

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The ‘caution’ tape can be used anywhere you can think of! I decided to add some extra detail to the cake platter~

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Clean up crew, aka party mom, was needed in job site: kids table!

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These name cards/food labels are meant to look like the caution street signs.  I created a short video on my Instagram to show this easy diy, here.  If you aren’t already following me, find me @taniasdesignstudio.

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Jenga is a perfect game for the budding builder! Except this game was enjoyed by all the adults best!

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Pylon Ring Toss game, signage and points printables are included in the set!

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Niko has a pair of PJs that match the theme, just bought them at Carter’s!

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I love having the ‘birthday facts’ on the water bottle labels!  So many guests have been fooled by the labeling and once they read the ‘Percentage DV based on happy kids’ they can’t help but smile.

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Evon of Cookievonster is a master at her craft!  I often have to tell guests to go ahead and take a cookie as they can’t believe I would let them eat one, let alone touch them!

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Ain’t that the truth!  Terrible twos in full swing~

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Karlo and Niko’s construction crew were such hard workers

Happy birthday to these fine young men, mama will always think you job is well done :)

xo

Tania

The full Construction party package can be found in my Etsy shop, here.

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Vendors

Printables, photography and styling : Tania’s Design Studio

Sugar Cookies : Cookievonster