Party hats add just an extra bit of fun to any celebration. You can make one in a matter of minutes.
Gather some supplies. I like to look through my ribbons, paper, and doo-dads, and grab everything within my color scheme. Then, I can choose which items to use and which to scrap as the hat comes together. Following the Party Hats 101 instructions, cover your party hat with heavy cardstock and a ruffled strip of fabric. Add a bow by cutting a 5 1/2″ x 2 1/2″ piece of fabric – fold it in half and stitch around each side and across the bottom, leaving an opening in the bottom center for turning. Turn and press the triangle. Then, fold it into a bow and wrap a small piece of ribbon around the center, hot gluing to secure it in the back. Hot glue the bow onto the ruffle in the center front of the hat. All set!
Also, a quick picture run through for making a cute, ticket display stand for cupcakes or a cake or whatever:
Other posts for Vintage Circus Party include:
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A Sweet! Giveaway from Papercandee
You are in for a real treat today – a treat from PaperCandee!!
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Dez, the mastermind behind Papercandee, does the most beautiful work. She offers both digital and fully assembled collections for a variety of themes and purposes. She does invitations and announcements, cupcake toppers and activity books, food signs and yard signs, she does it all!!
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Shabby Chic Vintage Tea Party Invitation |
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Fit for a Princess
It was a birthday party fit for a princess. Colors in pink and mauve and copper. Golden glitter accents. Crowns and gowns and spaces for coloring and reading. And, of course, cake. A cake for every prince and princess. Laughter and squeals and hunting for golden keys. A little group of friends. Perfect. Happy Birthday, Grace.
I’ve created tutorials for most of the components of this Princess Birthday Party – I hope they inspire and help you to create your perfect party for your little princess!
Tutorial for this stunning Tutu Tablecloth can be found here.
This post will walk you through the steps to create the skirt portion for this princess dress – you simply attach it to any bodice pattern – she will absolutely glow when she puts this on! Click here for the Princess Gown Skirt Tutorial.
Additional Sources:
Tissue Poms – Pom Love on etsy
Little Shoes, keys, gold bows – Beverly’s craft store
Cakes, Crowns, Princess Wreath, Tulle tablecloth – handmade
a farm party
I hope you all had a safe and fun Halloween. We made a mad dash down to Disneyland last weekend, played for two days, and then got to meet our new twin nieces as well. So much fun, but so exhausting. We got home late Sunday night and by Halloween evening, the girls finished some quick trick-or-treating and were ready for sleep!!
Anyhow, I wanted to share some pictures with you of the most adorable farm party my girlfriend did for her son’s first birthday. She planned out every last detail, right down to cute name cards for the food. Little Oliver was the cutest little farmer on his big day! I managed to weasel my way into the cake decorating festivities with the little barn cake for Oliver to dig into.
Thanks for letting me insert myself into your super cute party plans, Gina! And thanks for letting me share pictures of all (well, some of) your hard work. The party was awesome!
Fun Vintage Food Stands
When I came across Kristyn’s Vintage Lemonade Stand on Lil’ Luna, I pinned it to my Dream Home pinterest board. Someday I hoped. But then I figured out a way to get the hubby on board to build it for Olivia’s tea party. After all, we didn’t have an outdoor table for the party food, and, like I said, we had started our other projects nice and early. Once I got him on board for the first one, I sweetly suggested that perhaps we could do two. He totally agreed because he’s cool like that (or he knows I’m crazy and when I get a party idea in my head, there’s no stopping me.) We did a bit of studying on Lil’ Luna’s tutorial and then adjusted for the size we wanted. And when I say we, I mean he. Graham did all the building and I was very grateful. For the paint, I pretty much followed Kristyn’s instructions exactly. I will add that you do not need to prime the boards – I wasn’t sure, so I did some with and some without, it didn’t make a difference. Also, I would suggest using a satin paint, either spray paint or from the can. I used some spray paint and some that I had on hand in a can. The only thing that didn’t work was when I used an enamel spray paint – when I tried to sand it down, it got really gummy and gross. I didn’t have cool vinyl for the signs, so I painted the letters onto the sign boards.
Here’s an abbreviated picture tutorial for how we built our stands. Questions? I’ll try to give you answers. But once you get started, you’ll see that all you have to do is build a simple frame and then hammer up slats to go all the way around the front and sides. To hold up the sign, we just screwed a couple narrow slats onto the back and then screwed the sign onto that.
Do you love? I sure do!
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Butterfly Chandelier DIY
I didn’t take many pictures along the way, but I’ll tell you how I made this butterfly chandelier because I know some of you want to make one, too. And you definitely can, but I’m not gonna lie, it’s going to take some serious dedication.
When I first saw a chandelier like this, I knew I’d have to make one if we ever had a butterfly birthday party. Then, Olivia announced her theme – hooray!! All the credit here goes to April Meeker – you can see her incredible version here.
I made the chandelier with one foam wreath form (for the larger bottom) and a smaller embroidery hoop (for the top). I punched about ten million butterflies from patterned cardstock using three different craft punches (two are Martha Stewart punches). Then, I started hot gluing the smaller butterflies to cover all sides of the forms. This took a really long time to cover the wreath form. If you don’t want to dedicate a good chunk of time to this project, pick a different project you could probably speed things along by using a large embroidery hoop on the bottom as well. After the first layer of butterflies, begin layering again. Use both small and large butterflies and glue, glue, glue!
Once I finished covering the hoops, I used three long pieces of ribbon to connect the two hoops together and then knotted the ribbon at the top so that I could hang it easily. I blinged up the chandelier with leftover crystals from my real chandelier makeover project. Then I sewed long strings of small paper butterflies and draped them around the outside and straight down the center. A few other pieces of ribbon at various lengths were also hung down the center, and voila!
It’s so pretty, huh? I need to find a place to hang it in my house – I think it’s headed to the big girls’ bedroom. What are you going to do with yours?
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