What's in your 'Party Box' with Icing Designs

Hello friends! We are excited to share with you yet another new series with you this week! We are a little bit giddy about this one because we are going to be working some amazing people! We are asking our favorite bloggers and friends, "What's in your party box?" What party props, desserts, color palettes and other party goods are inspiring them right now! We are so excited about our first guest bloggers, we can hardly wait to share them with you. But, Kellie and I thought we would take the first one on and show everyone what is in our party box right now! We are in love with the classic color combination lovely blush pink and glimmering gold! The combination is elegant,sophisticated and feminine and metallics always add 'a little sparkle to you party'! With bridal shower season quickly approaching us we thought that our "Cupcake Couture" collection in pink and gold would pair perfectly with all of our party picks!

Who is not obsessed with confetti systems!?! These pink and gold pinatas 

are sure to bring tons of 'fun' to your party or shower! 

Glittery gold and pink spoons are so fabulous. Leave these at a coffee station for guests to 

stir in their cream and sugar!

Oh my, this gold cake stand, a pretty pink and gold cake would look gorgeous on this! 

Gold glittered vases with pink peonies are perfect centerpieces and take home favors all in one!

Edible gold glitter and pink shimmery sprinkles will top your cupcakes in style!

This hand-dyed crepe paper fringe garland dusted in gold glitter would look amazing 

across the front of a dessert table, or anywhere really!  

All you need is LOVE

So we are always perusing Pinterest for amazing party inspiration. We came across the prettiest photo and followed it back to Style Me Pretty, which is obviously the place to go for out of this world wedding inspiration! This proposal inspiration shoot is filled with gorgeous pastels, dreamy balloons,  delicious confections and some of the sweetest proposal ideas that would have any girl screaming "yes"!

              

             

          

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DIY hand-glittered mini paper pom fairy flower wands

We have been thinking about this project for a while and the best way to share it with you. We absolutely love paper poms, they are so inexpensive and make such a huge statement! We always thought it would be gorgeous to have all white paper poms with glittered edges over a sweet table for a wedding or clustered to make a beautiful arch for a bride and groom to stand under! Well, the larger poms are a little bit harder and more time consuming to glitter, so we thought we would share how to glitter the mini ones! So we created these mini paper pom fairy wands, which would  be so sweet to make if your little one is having a fairy party...or if they just love pretending they are a fairy! My girls got a hold of these and immediately put their fairy wings and tutus on, they ran around outside and played with these for almost an hour! These little wands would compliment our sweet little cupcake pixie paper goods perfectly! You could also just use these as regular poms and hang them over a sweet table! They look gorgeous when the light hits them!  

Materials: 

mini paper poms {you can make your own or we used Martha Stewart} 

glue {Elmer's or tacky glue will work fine} 

glitter {we used Martha Stewart white and silver mixed} 

paint brush

paper straws

ribbon 

glue gun 

Fluff your poms completely. Take a paint brush and dip it in some of your glue and just start brushing the edges of the poms. You do not have to be neat about this, it looks pretty if you make a few brush marks down the petal of the poms, you do not have to focus on just getting the edges. After you have the front side brushed with glue, you can either shake your glitter onto it or dip it in glitter that you have sprinkled on paper. It may look a little clumpy, but when the glue dries it will look perfect! After you have glittered your poms and are happy with them just take a dab of hot glue and glue the paper straw into the center of the pom. Finally, take some ribbon and tie it onto the straw 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/}