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While Labor Day may mark the end of summer, it doesn’t need to end BBQ season.  Fall is my favorite time to host evening events.  The cool night air is perfect for a get together.  I actually hosted this BBQ Birthday Party for my son about a year and a half ago BUT… it would be a great theme for any fall birthday.

One of Luke’s favorite thing to do is chill with his friends so “Chillin’ and Grillin'” was the perfect theme for his 11th birthday. Sports has been the theme to his birthdays the last several year (see here, here, or here) so this theme was a welcome break.  Tan, black and white- the color of s’mores was the perfect color scheme for this laid back evening. I had custom plates and cups made and then stamped mini kraft bags with our party theme to add a personalized touch to the food table.

 

S’mores also took center stage at the party.  S’more cupcakes, cake, mini apple pies, brownie trifles and custom sugar cookies filled the dessert table.  The boys’ favorite dessert though had to be the bacon maple donuts.  They then made their own concoctions at our s’mores bar.

The boys spent the afternoon playing hoops, swimming and just hanging out. Party favors were simple- mini more kits for the boys to eat at home.  

Cake, mini pies, cupcakes- Sweet and Saucy Shop

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When planning my daughter Audrey’s sixteenth birthday party, I wanted it to be bright, cheerful, colorful and fun – just like her.  This Fiesta Forever 16th Birthday Party was the perfect party theme. Audrey has been such an amazing young girl and I wanted every little detail to be perfect for her.   Since she loves flowers, I created a bright Mexican floral pattern and it became the inspiration for our invitation and decor.

 

For me the focus of the party is always the dessert table.  We used tons of bright paper flowers for the backdrop and filled the table with incredible treats. Guests feasted on custom sugar cookies, macarons, flower embellished donuts and chocolate trifles in mini floral cups. My favorite was the hand painted watercolor cake with the edible paper flower that complimented the invitation.  When it was time to actually eat the cake, guest shook their “Shake for Cake” maracas.  

Adult guests fiesta-ed at the Bebidas table while Audrey’s friend sipped their favorite agua frescas and grabbed colorful gum ball party favors. During the party, guest feasted on street taco and build your own nachos and then said cheese at the photo booth.

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Hi Everyone!  Today we are sharing this darling Kitty Party Baby Shower hosted by Nicole of Nicole’s Guide to Style for her long time friend.  The mommy-to-be wanted a no fuss intimate baby shower with her closest friends from childhood and since she had already had a traditional baby shower, Nicole decided to pick a more whimsical playful theme- kitties, one of the mommy-to-be’s favorite things. The black, white and gray color scheme and simple designs laid the foundation for this purr-fect shower.

All the desserts stuck to the party’s color scheme with the adorable kitty cake being center focus.  White sprinkled donuts, gluten free cupcakes and personalized sugar cookies completed the desserts but a kitty table wouldn’t be complete without milk! Little milk bottles with heart adorned straws add the cutest touch. The backdrop covered in kitty paper and meow banner, black and white balloons and pom poms finished off this sweet table.

Lunch was served outside on custom paper plates that matched the other paper products along with custom “Are you kitten me” cups.  Kitty headbands and kitty favor boxes greeted each guest. The mom-to-be even got to play pin the nose on the kitty after lunch.
Party Styling- Nicole’s Guide To Style

Invitation, Pin the Nose on the Kitty, Meow Banner, Dessert Backdrop, Table runner- Bloom Designs Online

X Paper Plates

Kitty Favor Boxes- Bloom Designs

Are you Kitten Me Cups

Printed Backdrop/Wrapping Paper

Sugar Cookies- Bambella Cookies

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Ready to get a little “emoji”nal? My sweet daughter Charlotte couldn’t wait to celebrate her 11th birthday with all her friends and favorite emojis.  Charlotte planned and talked about this party for over a year so I knew it had to be everything she had envisioned.  Rather than just using emoji faces, I wanted to incorporate other emojis that were a bit more personal to Charlotte (notice the panda and bow from her two prior parties?) Once I designed the background paper/envelope liner, the party pretty much styled itself.

As always, the dessert table was the focal point of the party.  All of the desserts served looked liked one of our emojis including an emoji cake, dog and panda cake pops by my favorite Cake Poppin, Unicorn sugar cookies, lollipops, chocolate sprinkled donuts and chocolate covered Oreos.  The girls’ favorite dessert by far were the poops made from brownie bites, chocolate buttercream, candied eyes and mouths we made from fondant. The backdrop of the table was simple- our emoji paper and balloon garland.  Our emoji garland decorated the front of the table.

The eating table was set with personalized placemats, our emoji balloons and emoji backpacks which each of the girls took home. On the drink and snack table, I decorated the drink dispenser, raspberry cups and biscuit jars with emoji faces cut from vinyl. Custom emoji balloons, and emoji piñata and emoji boxes that we made complete the look for our party.

During the party, the girls made emoji slime and emoji stress balls, took selfies in our photo booth and played with paper fortune tellers. As they left the girls each got a emoji party favor box.

The girls had a blast and believe it or not Charlotte has already picked the theme for her party next year.  Off to work!

Party Concept and Styling- Bloom Designs

Invitations, complete party kit, emoji posters and all paper printables- Bloom Designs

tissue pom poms, straws, utensil bags– Bloom Designs

Emoji t-shirt

Emoji paper cups

emoji favor boxes

emoji balloons

Puppy and panda cake pops by Cake Poppin

Cakes- Sweet and Saucy Shop

Sugar Cookies- The Cookie Craftsman

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Did you catch our Summer Pool Party post last week? It was filled with lots of simple ideas for a summer bash.  Most of the unique details for the party were made with my Cricut Explore Air 2 Machine, which is my newest obsession.  It makes party personalization easy.  We made stickers for cups and popcorn boxes, cupcake wrappers, table trim and even the heads for our flamingo donuts using this machine.  

These personalized beach balls were the biggest hit.  The kids loved playing with them during party and were so excited to take them home as favors after.  Each ball just takes a few minutes to make with you Cricut.  You need

Cricut Explore Air

Cricut Vinyl

Transfer Tape

Beach Balls

I designed the names for the balls in Cricut Design Space. I measured the space on the ball to make sure that my decal is the right size. Type in your guest names in design space using any font you like- there are so many to choose from.

Once you have your design cut and weeded, it’s time for the fun party! Applying the decal to the ball! Cut a piece of transfer tape. Peel off the back and apply the transfer tape over the name.  Peel off the back and apply the decal to the ball.  Carefully remove the transfer tape. 

Wouldn’t you love to have your very own Cricut Explore Air 2? Then you definitely need to enter

Jenny

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Hi Everyone.  Today I am sharing this super fun pool party with you.  Summer isn’t really summer without at least one pool party!  I hosted this one for my daughter and her friends after the last day of school.  The key to summer parties is keeping them bright, fun and simple. We choose a “Time For A Float” theme because we cannot get enough of all the fun, oversized pool floats at our house.  Flamingos, pretzels, Sweeties, pizza slices and gummy bears, we have them all.

Rather than doing a bunch of printables for this party, I decided to add fun personalized details using my brand new Cricut Explore Air 2 Machine.  I had a (beach) ball creating and crafting with this machine.  It was so easy to use that it cut my work in half, and really, isn’t it the most beautiful color?

In keeping with the easy breezy spirit of summer, I kept dessert simple and easy and used everyone’s summer favorites- flamingos, beach balls and water balloons to highlight our float theme. My Cricut made this easy.  For the beach balls on the ice cream float cups, I used printable vinyl sheets and the print and cut option on my Cricut machine. Adding cut out to plain white cups is simple, inexpensive trick to making your party pretty. Kettle corn is always a kid friendly favorite. White flamingo found in cut on Cricut Vinyl decorated our store-bought popcorn boxes.  Using card stock, I made waves for the front of the dessert table and cupcake wrappers with a wave edge that I found in the Cricut Design Space. Yet another easy way to add a cut summer detail.

I absolutely love the two desserts I did make. The flamingo chocolate covered Oreos and the flamingo donuts with head cut in the Cricut Design Center.  Using store-bought donuts, fondant wings and my Cricut, these donuts stole the show.

To complete the table, I painted an inexpensive particle board, added the “Time for A Float message that I cut out of vinyl and the edged the board with unfilled water balloons attached with double-sided tape.  Quick and cute, if I do say so. The party favors had to be personalized beach balls of course!  

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Last summer I had the honor of helping my sister Nicole of Nicole’s Guide to Style with my nephew’s first birthday party.  Nicole decide on a “One Happy Camper” birthday party theme. This was perfect for the birthday boy because he is the sweetest and happiest baby that you’ve ever met. Rather than picking a traditional camping color scheme, Nicole wanted to use mint and navy which kept the party modern and fresh. We also incorporated a lot of natural wood elements.
Party guest had their own little table with sheep skin throws for seating.  Personalized boxes filled with custom bubbles, crayons, and personalized color books kept the guest busy.  The drink table was stoked with custom napkins (a great extra little touch), personalized water bottles and a special drink for the grown up campers.

Campers were treated to a dessert table filled with bears, sugar cookies decorated to match the printable, donut holes, macarons and cupcakes.  The two tiered naked cake bySweet and Saucy was the guests’ favorite treat.

The highlight of the party was singing happy birthday to Davis.  Wooden cut out were used for the topper on the smash cake.  Davis wasn’t completely sure of what was going on at first but then dove into his smash cake.

During the party campers feasted at the food truck, went on a scavenger hunt, played in tents made by the birthday boys nana and made s’mores. Guest were asked to write a note to the birthday boy to save for his 21st birthday.  Mini boxes filled with trail mix were given to campers as they headed home.

Sources for One Happy Camper Birthday Party

Party Concept and Styling- Nicole’s Guide to Style and Bloom Designs

Invitations, complete party kit, cake posters and all paper printables- Bloom Designs

balloons, straws, drink bottles, cupcake holders, utensil bags– Bloom Designs

Photography- Andrew Kitchen

Cakes and Macarons- Sweet and Saucy Shop

Sugar Cookies- The Cookie Craftsman

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Hi Everyone!  I’m back to share this watercolor CAKE birthday Party from my daughter’s birthday last August.  I love the pale pink and peach colors of this party and it works perfect for anytime of year.  Hillary is soft, gentle and sweet so I wanted her 13th birthday party to reflect that  as well.  Hillary wanted to have a baking party for her birthday so I found a local cake artist that was willing to come to our home and teach the girls the basic in cake decorating and fondant.

I decorated our dining room with tons of balloons- thank goodness I had four kids to help me with this task.  The center piece was a runner of balloons and I made a faux chandelier out of pompoms, balloons and honeycomb balls.  Each girl had a mini cake from Cake Monkey Bakery in L.A. at her place setting and the birthday girl’s chair was wrapped with coordinating ribbon.

The dessert table feature a few cakes (of course!) from Sweet and Saucy- my favorite bakery.  Ask for Jenni if you order from them.  She always puts so much effort into bringing the vision in my head to life.  Since the girls were having SO much cake, I kept the other desserts to a minimum. Simple sugar cookies and macarons (both Hillary’s favorite) and then in keeping with the theme, cake pops and cake donuts.

I love this theme and party set up because it works for adults as well as kids.  Think 30th or 40th birthday.

Remember Hillary’s Birthday Party from last year?  See it here

Party Concept and Styling- Bloom Designs

Invitations, complete party kit, cake posters and all paper printables- Bloom Designs

tissue pom poms, straws, drink bottles, cupcake holders, utensil bags– Bloom Designs

Photography- Andrew Kitchen

Cakes and Macarons- Sweet and Saucy Shop

Sugar Cookies- The Cookie Craftsman

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Hi Everyone!  So glad to be back after a long winter break.  I have four new party themes to sharing with you over the next few weeks so make sure you are following us by email so you are notified of new posts.

Flamingo Party By Sugar and Cloth

So what’s new in party trends for 2017?  Balloon garlands are everywhere and I am completely smitten.

Kara Allen of Kara’s Party Ideas

By Ashley Thunder Events

Sincerely Jules

House That Lars Built

What makes these different from the balloons garlands of celebration past is tow things. One, these garlands are made up of balloons of various sizes and colors, and two, they are accessorized, if you will, with florals or greenery. Balloons definitely aren’t just for kids anymore.

A Charming Fete

You can find lots of DIY’s on the internet on how to but these together. Just google:) Which of these garlands is your favorite?  Pin your favorite one.

This year, I am going to be switching up our focus on this blog a bit.  I will be sharing more things that inspire me and thus will hopefully inspire you.  We will also continue sharing party ideas, recipes and entertaining tips. Everything to help your 2017 Bloom!

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YAY! It is finally time for a little Halloween fun here at Bloom Designs.   Since my kids have already picked their costumes, I thought it was time to come up with some fun Halloween favor and gifts.  These “Fangs for Being a Friends Halloween Treats” gummy boxes are a little bit sweet, a little bit scary.  I love mixing those two opposite combinations at Halloween.

To download the tags, click here.  Search for Fangs. Print your download on bright white card stock using any printer.  (HINT: If your running by a copy store, print them there in black and white.  It will only cost a few cents and you will save your ink:))

Fill a mini box, found here, cellophane bag or any clear container with gummy fangs.  I found these at Target.

Attach your card to each container with a cute ribbon.

As always, free printables by Bloom Designs are for personal use only and can not be sold or used on anything sold.  Thanks so much!

These make great little treat for trick or treaters, classmate, even your BFFs- grownups like to be remembered too. They also make great party favors.  I just love our first Halloween idea!  let the fun begin.

XO,

Jenny

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