Sweet Pastel Palette

With spring in full bloom, what better time for using all of those gorgeous pastels! We just love the soft, dreamy, feminine feel of a pastel color palette. With Easter this weekend we thought we would do a little round up of some of the most beautiful pastel desserts and party decor for you to enjoy!

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Little vintage bunny cupcake flag giveaway

Opps, we overprinted some of our little vintage bunny invitations. So we decided to have fun giveaway.

We will send you a set of 12 bunny cupcake flags, just leave us a comment on how you would use them here or on FB and we will choose a winner at random on Sunday night. How cute would these little bunnies be at your Easter dessert table!?!

Beautiful Easter Egg Boxed Gifts

Easter is sneaking up on us so fast this year! There are so many great ideas out there for beautiful sweets and gifts and fun ways to fill up all of those Easter baskets! We across this post on Torie Jayne's blog and thought it was such a beautiful gift idea! She found these gorgeous turquoise egg boxes and filled them with shredded paper and gold wrapped chocolate eggs! We love how she put the eggs in little cupcake liners too! She even included a free lacey bunny printable for the top of the box! We think there are so pretty and would be such a sweet gift to give for Easter! {Please check out the entire diy and get bunny printable here}

Spring Flower Magnets

We thought we would share a fun little diy with you today! We love this project because it is super easy and perfect for spring! These little paper flower magnets would even be so cute to pop in an Easter basket or a fun little gift to give for Mother's Day!

All you need is:

blank magnets {that you can find at any craft store}

paper of your choice to create flowers and green paper for leaves

gems

circle paper punch

scissors

glue gun

We choose to use textured pink paper and white, glittered paper to make the flowers and green on green polka dot paper for the leaves. Cut 4 leaf shapes out of your green paper and punch out one pink circle as the base for each flower. Turn the magnet over and take off the paper peel to reveal the sticky side and stick the corner of the leaf and the base of the flower to it {if you can not find pre-sticky magnets just use hot glue}. For each flower we punched {excluding the base} 4 pink and 2 white circle. You can arrange them any way you wish. One at a time you are going to glue them together, add a small dab of glue in the center on the top of the first circle and glue the bottom of the next circle on top {make sure not to cover the entire circle in glue just the center} and repeat until you have all of your circles stacked. Once you have them stacked you can cut where the scallops are from the edge to the center making sure the stop in the center and not to cut all the way through {see photo}. The gently pull up the layers to create a dimensional flower and add a gem in the center. Simply glue the flower to the base and you are done!

Pomme d'amour

Have you seen the previews for all of the "Snow White" inspired movies coming out!?! Oh what a classic fairytale...one of our favorites! We are sure there will be lots of Snow White inspired parties popping up, and we can't wait to see them! {We are kind of obsessing over all of the stunning French baking blogs we have been coming across} We found this blog post by Carnets Parisiens on how to make these gorgeous candied apples! They are so pretty, we just love the dramatic red of the apples, the red and white twine wrapped around actual branches and the paper hearts, all of these fit perfectly into the details of the fairytale! These candied apples would make a lovely addition to a Snow White inspired party, don't you agree!

DIY Oversized Paper Flowers

We were so thankful to have our "creme and gold baby shower" featured on Amy Atlas! Since we posted it we have had a lot of inquires about the oversized paper flowers we made as a back drop! Well, we can't take full credit for them our sweet and lovely friend Katie showed us how to make them! You may remember the gorgeous flowers she made for her sisters wedding. Anyways, we are excited to show you how to make them and hope you will try them for your next party!

Materials
1. Paper of your choice
2. Tissue paper {color of your choice}
3. Floral wire
4. Hot glue
5. Scissors
6. Small circle of card stock
Print and cut petal pattern, trace petals and cut out. {Find floral tempate here}
After cutting out your petals, accordion fold them. and cut small slit from the bottom. At this point if you want to spray paint your flowers you can do so now. When they are dry, cross one side of the paper over the other and hot glue to hold into place, this will give your petal shape and dimension.

Cut a small slit at in the middle of the bottom of the flower, cross one side of the paper over the other and hot glue to hold into place, this will give your petal shape and dimension.
Cut a small circle out of card stock to glue the petals onto. Glue the petals onto the card stock, overlapping the slightly. Once you have 4 petals glued on the bottom, repeat with the remaining 3 on top, overlapping again so that they are staggered from the bottom layer.

Cut 6 pieces of layered tissue paper into a 3” circle. Stack the tissue paper on top of each other and push the wire through about an ½ inch apart and twist at that bottom. Be careful not to rip the tissue, you may also want to put a dab of hot glue on top just to secure it. Start bunching the tissue one layer at a time to create a flower, you may want to add a dab of hot glue before you bunch the first one to hold the wire to the tissue.

Hot glue the tissue paper flower into the larger flower and you are done!

Cascarones

Have you ever heard of cascarones!?! They are glitter or confetti filled eggs...considered to be good luck when you break them over someone's head! They are so colorful and fairly easy to make! There are a lot of fun tutorials out there for making these, but we thought this one from one of our favorite French blogs, Griottes, was pretty fabulous! Although, they were made for Christmas in this tutorial, we thought they would be such a fun alternative to regular dyed Easter eggs!

Materials: Eggs, a needle, paint and a brush, glitter

Drill your eggs gently with the needle, a small hole on top and a small hole but slightly larger on the bottom. Shake the egg hard, and then blow into the top hole on top of a bowl, the egg will flow into the bowl.
Wash and dry the egg.
Once dry, paint them with acrylic or spray paint. Let them dry and apply a second coat if needed.
With a sheet of paper, cut a small cone and place it into the larger hole. Create a funnel and pour the glitter into the egg. Close the hole with a small piece of masking tape.



diy and all photo via Griottes: www.griottes.fr/}

"Sweet Sleepover" 11th Birthday Party

This past weekend Kellie's daughter sweet Annabella celebrated her 11th birthday! She had such a successful and fun-filled sleepover last year, that Annabella decided she wanted another one this year! So the theme became, "A Sweet Sleepover"! To set the tone we used our "sweet shoppe" invites! At the party the girls decorated cake boxes, decorated their own personal mini cakes that they got to bring home and share with their families, had a candy hunt, opened gift with oven mits on their hands...yes challenging but so much fun!

For decorations we played off of the color palette on the invites, pink and aqua...always a pretty combination and perfect for an 11 year old! We created our own tassel garlands that we strung in multiple locations! We even put one on each girl's chair, where they sat to decorate their cakes! There are so many great tutorials online for creating tassel garlands, we used on from Visual Vocabulary, found here. We also ordered paper poms from our favorite pom vendor, Paper White Designs! We made a mini letter garland that read, "11 is sweet" and an oversized cupcake flag topped our ruffled caked. We also purchased a super fun metallic, aqua backdrop so that the girls could take silly photos in front of it, of course they loved it! We even took photos of them holding their cakes in front of it.

We didn't necessarily have a "sweet table" but more of a "sweet area"! We set up pink wooden boxes that the girls had their cake decorating supplies in and were able to decorate their cakes right in the boxes. They also helped to avoid a huge cake mess! We really wanted to mimic the illustration on our invites, so in the middle of the table we set up 3 pedestals with desserts that Annabella picked out for us to make! We made a tall ruffle cake, cookie dough cupcakes {umm yea they are amazing}, brownie pops with a shimmered polka dot and of course what party would be complete without french macarons rimmed in pink sugar on top of a bowl full of jelly beans! Above the table we set up 3 apothecary jars on a shelf filled with candy they girls could take home.

The "sweet sleepover" was a success and a great party for an 11 year old girl! Although, I have an idea that Kellie may be taking the next year off from hosting another sleepover ;)