Surprise party invitations.
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craftgrrlMy mom lives in Tampa, but she'll be in New Orleans for her birthday, so I decided to throw her a surprise party.
The invitations were done in shades of green, orange, yellow, and pink, accented with coordinating fibers. The graphic is an embossed flip-flop stamp. It's not a Luau, just a fun summery party.
The words were printed on vellum and embossed with a clear glitter embossing powder and mounted on contrasting cardstock with vellum tape. I'm printing up maps to include since some of her friends haven't been to my new house since I moved.
The picture only have five of the cards I made, I still have a few more to do (thankfully most of them are going to couples)
I wanted to keep the party small since my house had some trouble holding 50+ people for my own birthday party.
For decorating I'm potting a bunch of orchids to decorate the buffet table (done family style) and some other tropical decorations to adorn the margarita station.
The entire ceiling of my living room and dining room is going to be covered in pink, orange, yellow and lime green balloons. Then every other surface is going to be filled with frosted glass vases filled with fresh tropical flowers accented with ferns.
I'm having a roasted ham (as opposed to the traditional whole pig served at a luau) some sort of tropical punch, a fruit and cheese tray, sandwiches, and assorted chips and dips as well as several appetizers I haven't yet decided on.
Her cake is a seven layer square almond cake filled with pineapple preserves and frosted with buttercream and topped off with more orchids.
I think that's it. I'll be sure to post pictures when it's done.
Thank you :)
The invitations were done in shades of green, orange, yellow, and pink, accented with coordinating fibers. The graphic is an embossed flip-flop stamp. It's not a Luau, just a fun summery party.
The words were printed on vellum and embossed with a clear glitter embossing powder and mounted on contrasting cardstock with vellum tape. I'm printing up maps to include since some of her friends haven't been to my new house since I moved.
The picture only have five of the cards I made, I still have a few more to do (thankfully most of them are going to couples)
I wanted to keep the party small since my house had some trouble holding 50+ people for my own birthday party.
For decorating I'm potting a bunch of orchids to decorate the buffet table (done family style) and some other tropical decorations to adorn the margarita station.
The entire ceiling of my living room and dining room is going to be covered in pink, orange, yellow and lime green balloons. Then every other surface is going to be filled with frosted glass vases filled with fresh tropical flowers accented with ferns.
I'm having a roasted ham (as opposed to the traditional whole pig served at a luau) some sort of tropical punch, a fruit and cheese tray, sandwiches, and assorted chips and dips as well as several appetizers I haven't yet decided on.
Her cake is a seven layer square almond cake filled with pineapple preserves and frosted with buttercream and topped off with more orchids.
I think that's it. I'll be sure to post pictures when it's done.
Thank you :)
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