Tween Vintage Horse Party

Belle's 11th Birthday Vintage Tween Horse Party 

Inspired by my daughter’s love for horses and all things girly



 

 

 

 

 

PARTY DETAILS

 

My daughter Belle fell in love with horses just recently after a friend invited us to go horseback riding.  After our first ride she told me she was hoping that her horse was gong to be a white one, and that is exactly what Laser was, a beautiful white Arabian horse.  Of course after that she wanted a horse theme party for her 11th Birthday.  I went to work looking on Pinterest and party blogs. Most of the horse theme parties I came across were not age appropriate for tweens.  While on vacation I started working with Lori Harris owner of Swoon Designs to assist in creating Belle's Vintage Horse Party.  I only had one day to pull it all together after we returned home from vacation.  I am so grateful for the help of my mom and husband, I couldn't' have done it with out them.

 

For the decorations,  The majority of the larger furniture props where rented from Lori at Swoon Designs. My favorite rental piece was the antique mantel we used as a photo booth.  I was able to use fillers from around my house to decorate the mantle.  The floral topiary was my wedding bouquet that my late Aunt Sue had made and the vintage water basin was my late grandmother's.  I created the majority of the other decorations, including the burlap banner, burlap table runner, burlap horse shoe wreath,  tassel fringe, cupcake toppers, cake topper, burlap and lace mason jars.  I also created the pink pallet sign and had Vinyl Chatter add the white  horse silhouettes.

 

When the kids arrived in the park they started with the horse rides, as girls would finish they would head over to the photo booth for pictures with their friends. They really enjoyed decorating the chalkboard frames and posing for pictures.  After everyone had several turns on the horses we gave the horses a rest and the kids feed them carrots.  Then we headed over to the dessert table for some yummy treats.  The kids were served caramel apples, chocolate dipped pretzels, chocolate dipped Oreos, oatmeal crème pies, rice krispie treats, and s'mores trail mix and of course cake.  My dearest friend Stacie Wilson owner of Sweet Sinclair's Cakes, Cupcakes, Cookie Cake etc..... made it for Belle.  They drank homemade lemonade and in mason jars  decorated with burlap, lace, twine and decorative paper straws.

 

For favors the guest took home goodie bags filled with a decorative frame, vintage lollipops and some homemade kettle corn. In the frame I added a chalkboard printable.  Below is the printable I designed for the frames to match the party theme.

You can order the matching invitation in my Artfire Store:

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/socuteparties

 

 

 

 

 

VENDOR CREDITS & RESOURCES:

Printables and Decorations: So Cute Parties

Cake: Sweet Sinclair's Cakes, Cupcakes, Cookie Cake etc.....

Prop Rental: Swoon Designs

Vinyl Sign: Vinylchatter

Horse Rental : Vickie's Horses to Hamsters

 

Halloween Party Printables

Hi So Cute Party Fans! Can you believe Fall is just around the corner?  I have to admit I am really looking forward to cooler days, to wash away some of this Georgia humidity.  Fall is my family's favorite time of year! We love everything about fall, the weather, the food, the football and the holidays. Just the thought of fall puts me in high spirits! So with fall just around the corner I thought I would share with you this Halloween Party Pack.  Its packed full of everything you will need to have an amazing Halloween Celebration.

 

  This printable party pack is "Halloween Themed" The  the above files are designed as print files.  You can print them at home or take them to a local office supply store and have them printed.  I suggest to print all the files on heavy duty card stock.  This party pack includes: 2 styles of cupcake wrappers, 3 styles of food tags, 4 styles of bottle wrappers, 2 styles of treat bag toppers, 4 different 2" party circles.  Also included is the Halloween Subway Art and Happy Halloween bunting banner. 

 

You can access The Halloween Party Pack files below! 

http://www.4shared.com/folder/YziicpOJ/Halloween_Party_Pack.html

 

All you need to do is download the files, print and start crafting!

 

To construct the banner, you can use several methods.  My method of choice is to cut the pennants, then hole punch each corner and thread ribbon to string it. I use matching ribbons between the pennants to give it a finished look.  I have see others sew, or hot glue them to string.  You can even just cut out each pennant and attach it directly to the wall or table.  

To make the cupcake toppers you will need a 2" circle or  a 2.25" scalloped circle punch.  My favorite punch for toppers is the 2.25 EK Success! I Cut the party circles into strips then punch out the designs. You can use a larger circle or scalloped punch (2.5 inch or larger) to give the toppers a layered look.  I attach my toppers to candy sticks with hot glue, but you can use toothpicks as well.  You can also use the party circles to dress up treat boxes and table decor.

 

 

The bottle wrappers are super easy, just print as many as you need and cut them into strips, you can decorate water bottles, coke bottles etc... You can secure them with double sided tape or hot glue.

 

 

 

My treat bag toppers work well with the  Wilton Clear Party Bags size 4x9.  I love to fill ours with Candy Corn Bark.  If you haven't made any yet you must try it.  Here is a link to recipe we use.

 

http://leelala.net/2011/09/candy-corn-bark/

I truly hope that you get as much enjoyment out of this party pack as I had in creating it! Please be sure to post any pictures to my fan page at:

https://www.facebook.com/SoCuteParties

You can check out more of my custom party supplies in my Art Fire Store

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/socuteparties

Happy Crafting!!!

 

 

 

 

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Soccer Theme Party Manchester United

This year my son wanted a Manchester United Soccer Party.

Its not that easy to find Manchester United Soccer supplies

in the US, so I had to create a lot of the Manchester theme 

items myself.  In doing so I also created a soccer

 printable party pack.We had hot dogs, popcorn and cake.

  The kids played several soccer matches along

with a water balloons.  The thank you gifts were

water bottles and soccer t-shirts.

 



 

 

 

 

Cake by Uzi Wiggins Cakes



Hot Dogs

Water Bottles by:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/vinylchatter

 






 

T-Shirts by:
https://www.facebook.com/#!/vinylchatter

You can find the printable party pack in my store at:

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/studio/socuteparties 

 

 

 

 

Vintage Fall Dessert Shower

 

I had the honor to host a wedding shower for my good friend Cherie, last November.  I can not believe I am just now getting the pictures up.  It must be that its raining and 66 degrees in mid August.  All I can think about is decorating my house for fall and running to Starbucks for a Pumpkin Spice Latte!

 

The shower theme was vintage and desserts. 

 

 

 

I was so luck to find the bird cages in the clearance bin at Michales

 and added some pray painted candle stick.  Can you believe you can get these

beautiful cupcakes at Wal-Mart.  (Yes Wal-Mart and they are good!)

Of course I had to have a little banner, I cut some burlap and used

my cricut to cut out the letters.   Despite what I have seen on Pintrest the vinyl

didn't stick to the burlap, that well.  Next time I will try the iron on vinyl.

I found this wreath at a yard sale, then I added a burlap bow, the brides future initial and some felt flowers.  Below is a simple tutorial on how I made them.

http://www.lifeafterlaundry.com/felt-flower-tutorial/

Here are some more of the felt flowers and spray painted

pumpkins. I did splurge on the burlap chair ties.

 

One of my favorite parts of hosting a shower or event is creating the invitation.  I was so excited when I found the frame at Hobby Lobby and it matched perfect.  Below is the link to the shower invite.

http://www.artfire.com/ext/shop/product_view/7231716

 

Patriotic Collection 2012

Patriotic Collection 2012

Happy 4th of July!!!

Enjoy some FREE printables!

Be sure to post phots on

http://www.facebook.com/SoCuteParties#!/SoCuteParties

You've Been Booed!!!

Halloween is one of our favorite Holidays in our house, and of course one of our favorite things to do is "BOO" our friends and neighbors.   I created some free printables and easy instructions so you can spread the Halloween fun!

Boo Signs available for download at

http://www.4shared.com/folder/ATkeE781/_online.html

Gather all your supplies:

12*12 Card Stock

Ribbon

Glue Gun

Hole Punch

I hit the Dollar Store and Michale's to stuff our "Boo" Treats.

We also haded some Halloween Candy too!

I rolled the cardstock to create a cone, then I hot glued the outside

 to make it secure.

After I had my cone I hole punched the sides and added some ribbon for hanging and some embellishment ribbon to dress up my cone. Then I filled the cone with all the treats and the "Boo Sign" and Instructions.