DIY Real Parties — DIY Party Designs

{Photoshoot} Tie Dye Party

2011

I’m so excited to finally be able to share the photos from a photoshoot created by Chris at Creations at Home!!

It was fun to collaborate with Chris in designing the printables for this groovy tie dye theme. It’s such a fun theme for a summer time kids party. I hope you enjoy!

I love how Chris used our printable Groovy Fun Placecards as food signs and drink bottle labels…

You can find these printables to create your own party in our online store:
invitation | party signs | placecards | round labels

Thank you so much Chris for the opportunity to partner with you on this fun project!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: DIY Real Parties, Fun Activites & Sports, Kid's Party Tagged With: 70s, art, celebrations at home, diy, dye, groovy, kids, party, photoshoot, printable, tie, tie dye

{Real Wedding} G & J’s Vintage Vegas Wedding

2011

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Although the theme of this spectacular wedding was a vintage vegas theme…the wedding was held in the spectacular Rocky Mountains with a ceremony in Banff and reception at the stunning Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise.

Guests were greeted to the reception with the following escort cards using our Vegas (0570) Rectangular Labels. Inside the envelopes, each guest received a Blackjack Lotto Ticket.

In the room, custom table names signs featured Las Vegas Hotel names instead of table numbers. We had fun making these custom table names featuring 17 Vegas hotels.

Vegas (0570) Placecards at each setting used a different card face symbol to indicate the guest entree choice.

And to finish off the evening, a candy buffet of red, black and white candies labeled with our Vegas (0570) Tags.

Thanks for sharing your wedding day with us G&J. It was a stunning wedding reception at your beautiful mountain setting. I loved helping you custom create your wedding reception stationery!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: DIY Real Parties, Wedding Tagged With: black, card, casino, diy, heart, number, placecard, printable, reception, red, seating, spade, stationery, table, vegas, Wedding

{Real Party} Popsicle & Penguin Bday Party

2011

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I’m delighted to share photos of the Penguin Popsicle party using the Popsicle Frenzy party printables for a girl’s 8th birthday party sleepover!

Popsicle Birthday Party table

Aren’t these Chubby Pop bottles the cutest? Our water bottle labels fit perfectly!

Chubby Pop - Birthday Party Labels

As the girls tucked in for the night to watch a movie – they enjoyed popcorn and a mini candy bar for their late night snack.

Candy Buffet for Sleepover Party

Of course a penguin party wouldn’t be complete without some penguin treats – these are marshmellow treats! Watch soon for a little tutorial on how to make these!

Penguin Marshmellow Treats

As part of their favor packages, the girls each received a popsicle made of Krispie treats. Watch for a tutorial soon this fun party snack.

Popsicle Party Favor Tag

Krispie Treat Popsicle

What summer party would be complete without some bubbles for blowing outside. Again, water bottle labels were used to dress up the bottles.

Bubble Bottle Popsicle Party Favors

You can find these Popsicle Frenzy printable templates in our online store:
placecards | napkin wrap | 2″ collage label | water bottle label | 2.5″ square label

Love getting to share our printables getting some real party love! Hope you enjoyed it!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: Animals, DIY Real Parties, Ice Cream & Fun Foods, Kid's Party Tagged With: birthday, black, colors, diy, girl, ice, party, penguin, picnic, popsicle, printable, summer, template, treat

{Featured} Tie Dye Party Photoshoot

2011

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When Chris from Celebrations at Home asked if I could help with a photoshoot project – I was happy to jump on board! They were setting up a tie dye summer party and needed some printables to finish off the project.

You can read this great how-to party article at: Celebrations.com

Learn how to tie-dye shirts in a couple different patterns, make drink cups out of squirt bottles and make tie-dye cupcakes! Such fun and creative ideas Chris!

You can find these tie-dye printables in our online store:
4×6 invitation | 4×6 party sign | placecards | tags | 2.5″ circle labels

I love creating custom party sets – so if you have a party idea in mind – feel free to order your custom party printables in our online store!

Hope you enjoyed this little tie dye party – such a fun theme for a groovy summer birthday party or activity to keep the kids occupied this summer!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: DIY Real Parties, Fun Activites & Sports, Kid's Party, Party Ideas Tagged With: celebrations at home, diy, feature, groovy, hippy, party, printable, printables, templates, tie dye

{Custom Order} Monkey Business Baby Shower

2011

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I was excited to receive a copy of the final invite for Ashley’s baby shower. We designed a monkey theme that was based on her nursery linens and colors. She chose to have it made on a Staples sized postcard so she could easily send it away for printing…it turned out great!

Now we just have to patiently wait for baby D to arrive!

For baby shower inspiration – get ideas for patterns in linens, a favorite stuffed toy, a picture on the wall in the nursery…you find the inspiration, I’ll make you a wonderful design to suit it!!

Remember, I’m always happy to create a custom design to match a nursery theme – you can order your custom party printables & invitations in our online store!

I really like how this little monkey turned out and may make more party printables in this design – what do you think?

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: Animals, Baby Shower, DIY Real Parties, Jungle Tagged With: baby, baby shower, brown, circle, cute, girl, Jungle, modern, monkey, orange, pink, shower, tree

{Real Wedding} D&C on Green Wedding Shoes

2011

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We’re excited to have the reception stationery on display over at Green Wedding Shoes from an Australian wedding we collaborated on with Crystal, wedding planner extraordinaire of Distinct Occasions.

The couple are world travelers from Toronto, having a destination wedding in Austrailia. With a chic coral and blue color scheme, we wanted stationery for the reception that was crisp, clean and yet still reflected their love of travel.

Crystal and I worked to design menu cards that served also as placecards…resembling a famous travel guide design in their colors of blue and coral.

The dessert table became the central focus. With an eclectic mix of vintage designs, we designed food cards that looked like airport departure gates sign…with the Gate # being their wedding wedding date – Gate F12 (february 12).

As guests departed for the evening, they were each given a cloth favor bag which had a bottle of water and cookie included for their travel home. The personalized favor tag with personalized water bottle label was a fantastic way to send guests home.

I think you’ll agree, it was a stunning wedding, for a beautiful couple. Thanks Crystal for letting me help in creating the custom reception stationery printables for this wedding.

You can find many of these travel themed stationery items in our online store:
travel guide menu card | seating cards | food signs | favor tags | postcard guestbook cards

Let me help you customize these printable templates in your wedding colors and personal travel style for your wedding, bridal shower or bon voyage party!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: DIY Real Parties, Travel, Wedding Tagged With: australia, blue, bottle, buffet, candy, card, coral, dessert, food, label, menu, place, reception, seating, sign, water, Wedding

{Real Party} Hawaiian Luau Pool Party

2011

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I always love to design parties for Lisa’s daughter – she always has a creative and fun party ideas that I’m happy to collaborate with her on.

You can find many of these luau themed party printables in our online store:
cupcake toppers | favor tags | bunting banner | napkin wraps | water bottle labels

Such a colorful birthday celebration! Thanks for sharing the photos! A warm pool party is a perfect way to celebrate a cool winter birthday!

Do you need a different style Hawaiian Luau party theme? Order your custom party printables in our online store!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: DIY Real Parties, Flowers, Kid's Party, Ocean & Beach & Pool Tagged With: banner, birthday, birthday party, bunting, cupcake toppers, diy hawaiian, diy luau, diy pool party, favor tags, flowers, hibiscus, kids party

{Real Party} Dominic’s Baptism

2011

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I’m excited to share the Baptism photos from one of my clients in Florida – I helped her custom design a printable party package to celebrate her son’s baptism in February.

Shelly wanted a modern party package for her son’s upcoming baptism celebration. She wanted colors of kiwi green, bold navy blues & touches of chocolate brown. We quickly decided on a mix of patterns to create this custom set with.

For the cupcake toppers – the set included ones with a ‘D’, ones with ‘God Bless Dominic’ and ones with a cross and his name. Shelly punched them out using a 2″ scalloped punch.

She used the banner pennants to spell out ‘God Bless Dominic’ over the dessert table.

Shelly place mini brownies in the favor fry boxes. She got creative and used the party template as a favor cone for more goodies for the guests. That hats also has a 2″ round collage sticker with a thank you message to guests.

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“Extremely happy with the whole experience! Seller was able to create exactly what I was looking for from just a few inspiration photos and worked very quickly to complete the project. Would certainly recommend this seller. Thanks so much!”
- Shelly, Florida

It’s amazing to see how a few elements can bring an entire party design together – just by mixing a set color palatte in different pattern designs.

Thanks Shelly for sharing how you used your DIY custom designed baptism party package. I hope you enjoy snuggling your newest blessing!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: Baby Shower, Baptism/Confirmation, DIY Real Parties Tagged With: baptism, blue, boy, brown, diy baptism, green

{Real Wedding} R + P Purple Passion

2011

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R + P wanted to make a fun and unique seating card display, and wanted something smaller than the traditional seating card size.

Immediately, we decided we’d create a design they could upload and get printed from MOO.com- the funnest half sized cards you can find. Because it takes a bit to get the cards in, we decided to make a file for each guest, and then R+P could put in the table numbers closer to the wedding date once the official rsvps were known.

Guests would remove their card from the corkboard, and on the back find their table number and a brief message from the bride & groom. To add a touch of whimsy, 4 different purple patterns were used on the seating cards.

MOO.com cards are fabulous because you can order one or one hundred different designs in your package – which makes them just great for doing something like seating cards. The trick is the back must be the same for all of them.

We even designed cards using MOO.com for the head table settings.

I also designed table numbers and menu cards that sat in these great white frames from IKEA.ca

I love using MOO mini cards for different wedding elements!

It was a stunning wedding! Thanks for allowing us to contribute to your fun purple patterned theme elements!

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
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Filed Under: DIY Real Parties, Wedding Tagged With: card, chart, diy, diy placecards, diy seating cards, menu, moo cards, moo.com, place, placecards, printable, purple, reception, seating, seating card chart, small, Wedding

{ Real Wedding } F&R August Wedding

2011

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When F&R needed help in the final weeks before their wedding to create personalized table numbers and menu cards, I was happy to create the custom files that they could print themselves.

Take a look at how wonderful the finished files looked set up on their wedding day!

In each frame they had one table number and on the backside was the personalized menu.

The couple had used a frame from IKEA {Tolsby} and spray painted it silver to better match their decor. On one side was the table number personalized with their names & wedding date, and then the menu was on the back side.

You can order the personalized menu card in our online store:
Edwardian Scripts Menu Card | Edwardian Scripts Table Numbers

I will gladly create custom pieces for your wedding stationery – if you need a design or colors you need can’t be found on my website, please contact me about your specific wedding or party needs.

Jolyn | Lifestyle Party Planner
DIY Party Designs