Doodlebug Design Inc Blog: party Courtney Lee

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Color Challenge: Bon Bon Birthday Party by Courtney

Hello and welcome to my 2 year old's birthday party! Court from Court's Crafts here!

When asked, Emmaline said she wanted a "pink airplanes and horses" themed party. I had other ideas in mind... but when she looked up with me and so confidently requested the theme: OKAY kiddo! :)

Get ready for a lot of doodlebug bon bon love (that's the name of their brown color if you didn't know.)

First we start with an invitation. I chose to keep the front of it clean and put the details on the back. It's just a flat postcard style invitation that is A2 sized (4.25" x 5.5") so that it fits in a regular envelope. I did add a bit of dimension with the plane and the clouds and the horse. I love dimension.

When something needs a little more dressing up - doodlebug sprinkles to the rescue!

I used the sprinkles on the eyes of the horse too! I inked up this one and added some raffia as hay at the very end. I think that horse is pretty cute in houndstooth if I do say so myself.

Did you know that doodlebug makes "you're invited" stickers?!? If you look closely, you will see that each word is all one piece. easy peasy for mass production.

Next up... of course any good kiddo party has a banner of some sort! I decided to go with the shortened "Emma" instead of "Emmaline" as it fit my table better. You can always shorten to the monogram as well!

Normally the holes for the banner are on the top, but I wanted a laced/horsy look so I chose to do it on the sides.

I kept the design clean and simple adding zig-zag stitches to the two "m"s and straight to the others. I added a little crinkled ribbon and some dimension. The alphas are the loopy lou font in bon bon and were perfect for the feel I was going for.

I cut out 8 of the horses and 8 of the airplanes not quite having a plan of what I was going to do with them. I knew I wanted to do this little pen with a horse behind it. I added some straw to the pen to hide the little stand.

I hot glue gunned airplanes to the white coffee filter balls that I made for Emmaline's 1st birthday party. My goal was that it would look like airplanes in the clouds. Waste not, want not! :) I love re-using things.

So... these polka dot doilies are new, but I had to incorporate them! These little bottles are actually yogurt bottles that I buy for Emmaline. I washed them out and thought it would be sweet for the kiddos to drink out of. I am using them to help train E how to drink out of a glass instead of out of a sippy cup. A little raffia and some fun paper straws and voila!

Okay... maybe I got a little doily obsessed... but simply adding some teensy type letters made them lemonade stand signs!

love this font!

I knew I wanted to make cupcake toppers and these just helped to keep the theme coherent.

The finished party product!

I hope this inspires you to create some party decor for your next party. Don't forget how easy Doodlebug makes it! They have cupcake toppers with a bunch of their collections already in package - the straws are food grade and can be used for drinks too!