patriotic fans
star sprinkles
snow cone holders
star paper straws
red and blue stripe wooden forks
pie container
red scalopped cake stand
red striped square plates
Happy 4th of July
Well you know summer is full effect when its the 4th of July!! Its such a fun day filled with picnics, icy treats, fireworks, friends and family! We wanted to share some of our favorite picks for a festive Patriotic Party! How much fun are those red, white and blue snow cone holders and red and white twine wrapped around individual pie slice containers...well that's obviously a perfect pairing! Hope you are celebrating the 4th in style! Be safe and have fun, Happy Independence Day to all!
patriotic fans
star sprinkles
snow cone holders
star paper straws
red and blue stripe wooden forks
pie container
red scalopped cake stand
red striped square plates
patriotic fans
star sprinkles
snow cone holders
star paper straws
red and blue stripe wooden forks
pie container
red scalopped cake stand
red striped square plates
What's in your 'Party Box' with Fellow Fellow
Don't you love when you come across a blog you could just spend hours looking at!?! Well, Fellow Fellow has been one of those blogs for us! Its fresh and always exciting! We came across Claire's blog a while ago and just loved all of her posts. Fellow Fellow is a DIY and lifestyle blog. Claire writes her blog from her studio in Singapore...amazing, right!?! She shares all sort of beautiful and inspiring things with her readers, from step by step tutorials, freebies, lovely photography and new shops and products that she has come across. Some of our favorite posts are her 'three for free' where she finds three fabulous products that are free, yes please and 'five under ten' featuring five great products that are all under ten dollars. And, as you know we are always suckers for DIYs and Claire's tutorials are always fun, creative and beautifully photographed! We are so excited to have Claire with us today, sharing what her picks are for creating a fantastic party!
Tassel garlands are fantastic for parties, and a great way to get started on a color scheme. This one is especially pretty with it's shades of purple and hint of metallic bronze!
These cute straws will always come in handy, and bring a bit of color and fun at the same time!
Paper poms are a great way to add more color to just about any occasion! Hang them over a dessert table, the dining table, or even on the backs of chairs.
These sequins would be perfect sprinkled down the middle of the table.
These tags could be used a few ways - how about using some colorful twine to tie the tags to favor bags, or set them on plates as place tags, or even use them as food labels!
DIY Festive Confetti Star Flag Garland
Ok, does anyone know where the month of June went!?! Summer...please slow down! The 4th of July is already next week! We do love the 4th, we always get together for a family picnic at my in-laws. All the kiddos play, there is always more food than anyone can possibly eat, fireworks fill the sky at night and you know summer is in full effect! We wanted to share a little garland that would be perfect to use at any 4th of July or summer celebration. It is is super festive and filled with star confetti, so you really can't go wrong!
We created a 4 flag garland but you can make as many flags as you want to create your garland and you can also make this any size you want.
1. We used 4 5x5 squares of red and white striped paper
2. We used a 3 inch circle punch to create the hole at the top
3. Cut a circle out of your contact paper that is just slightly bigger than 3 inches {take the backing off so the sticky part is up} and sprinkle your blue and white star confetti over the sticky surface.
4. Cut a square out of the contact paper, larger than the circle so that there is hang over
5. Take the stick backing off of the square piece of contact paper and lay it over the sticky part of the circle contact paper with the stars on it. {So the sticky part of the square piece is touching the sticky part of the circle piece with the confetti.}
6. There will be hang over from the square piece of contact paper, place this over the hole in the back of the red and white paper. If the contact paper is hanging over the sides or top of the red and white paper just trim it with scissors.
7. Take a piece of your white festooning and glue it to the top of each flag
8. Punch holes at the top of either side of the garland {under the festooning so you don't see them}
and string your white satin ribbon through to create a garland!
Interview with Erin from Knot & Bow
We are so excited to have Erin from Knot & Bow with us today! We may or may not consider ourselves borderline hoarders of party packaging supplies, if you are too you will fall in love with Knot & Bow. From wrapping paper, bags and tags to stickers, ribbon and twine this shop pretty much has it all! It was awesome to interview Erin and find out how she keeps her shop new and exciting and where her inspiration comes from. We loved finding out that she has passion for cooking and a sweet tooth that rivals ours...almost! We just want to thank Erin so much for her time in doing this interview with us and congratulate her on her new studio space, you have to check it out...its awesome!
Could you tell us a little bit about Knot & Bow and how you got your start?
When I had my first son in 2009, I made the decision to leave my full-time job and try to earn a living on my own in order to spend more time with my son. I spent a year brainstorming potential shop ideas, and during that time, always found myself more drawn to the packaging materials than the products I was planning to make and sell. I’ve always loved paper crafts, stationery, and gift wrap. So, I focused on the packaging and never looked back.
Your shop is so much fun, how do you keep coming up with new ideas to and products to keep things fresh?
That’s certainly something I struggle with! I’m incredibly indecisive and think a lot about potential products before I ever add them to the shop. I find that I have plenty of ideas for new products, but because I always like to make sure my new products are retail ready for my wholesale customers, it takes quite a bit of planning to introduce them to my shop. I’m working on being better about taking the plunge and adding new products quickly — one of my big goals for this year!
Who or what inspires/influences your work?
There is a wealth of inspiration out there. My Twitter feed, Pinterest page, and Facebook feed is filled with color concepts, DIY ideas, and fun party concepts that feed my creative energy all the time. I also troll a lot of really unattractive supply and manufacturing websites, which can be difficult to navigate, but yield interesting product ideas much of the time. I hope to be able to spend a bit more time traveling the world in the future — I don’t travel much right now, but travel is so incredibly inspirational.
New York is such an amazing city, what do you do when you are not working?
I love living in New York! I live and work in Brooklyn, and spend most of my time here. It has everything that I love about New York at just a slightly slower pace and with a lower skyline. We are surrounded by incredible restaurants, beautiful parks, excellent museums, a zoo, great coffee, and lots of super fun playgrounds. With a one year old and a four year old, my world revolves around my boys. So, time away from work is usually filled with attempts at keeping up with laundry or hitting the sprinklers on a hot day. As parents, we don’t always get to do all of the New York things we’d love to do, but I’m thankful to live in a place where we run our errands on foot and get to spend a lot of time exploring our neighborhood.
What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?
I used to have a (tiny!) food blog. I sincerely love to cook and bake, but you would never know based on the amount of takeout I eat these days! It’s tough to enjoy cooking with a one year old tugging on your ankles, but I’m trying to rekindle my flame in the kitchen. :)
And, of course we have to know, what is your favorite sweet!?!
M&Ms of any kind have always been my biggest weakness. But I also have a serious love for delicious cookies (Levain OMG) and almond croissants in the morning. And blood orange doughnuts. And salty honey pie. I have a sweet tooth.
Guess, Erin is offering Icing Design fans 20% off anything in her shop for the next week!! Just use coupon code ICINGDESIGNS at checkout!! Awesome...right...I think we would definitely be using it on the new party confetti bombs!!
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Could you tell us a little bit about Knot & Bow and how you got your start?
When I had my first son in 2009, I made the decision to leave my full-time job and try to earn a living on my own in order to spend more time with my son. I spent a year brainstorming potential shop ideas, and during that time, always found myself more drawn to the packaging materials than the products I was planning to make and sell. I’ve always loved paper crafts, stationery, and gift wrap. So, I focused on the packaging and never looked back.
Your shop is so much fun, how do you keep coming up with new ideas to and products to keep things fresh?
That’s certainly something I struggle with! I’m incredibly indecisive and think a lot about potential products before I ever add them to the shop. I find that I have plenty of ideas for new products, but because I always like to make sure my new products are retail ready for my wholesale customers, it takes quite a bit of planning to introduce them to my shop. I’m working on being better about taking the plunge and adding new products quickly — one of my big goals for this year!
Who or what inspires/influences your work?
There is a wealth of inspiration out there. My Twitter feed, Pinterest page, and Facebook feed is filled with color concepts, DIY ideas, and fun party concepts that feed my creative energy all the time. I also troll a lot of really unattractive supply and manufacturing websites, which can be difficult to navigate, but yield interesting product ideas much of the time. I hope to be able to spend a bit more time traveling the world in the future — I don’t travel much right now, but travel is so incredibly inspirational.
New York is such an amazing city, what do you do when you are not working?
I love living in New York! I live and work in Brooklyn, and spend most of my time here. It has everything that I love about New York at just a slightly slower pace and with a lower skyline. We are surrounded by incredible restaurants, beautiful parks, excellent museums, a zoo, great coffee, and lots of super fun playgrounds. With a one year old and a four year old, my world revolves around my boys. So, time away from work is usually filled with attempts at keeping up with laundry or hitting the sprinklers on a hot day. As parents, we don’t always get to do all of the New York things we’d love to do, but I’m thankful to live in a place where we run our errands on foot and get to spend a lot of time exploring our neighborhood.
What is one thing people would be surprised to know about you?
I used to have a (tiny!) food blog. I sincerely love to cook and bake, but you would never know based on the amount of takeout I eat these days! It’s tough to enjoy cooking with a one year old tugging on your ankles, but I’m trying to rekindle my flame in the kitchen. :)
And, of course we have to know, what is your favorite sweet!?!
M&Ms of any kind have always been my biggest weakness. But I also have a serious love for delicious cookies (Levain OMG) and almond croissants in the morning. And blood orange doughnuts. And salty honey pie. I have a sweet tooth.
Guess, Erin is offering Icing Design fans 20% off anything in her shop for the next week!! Just use coupon code ICINGDESIGNS at checkout!! Awesome...right...I think we would definitely be using it on the new party confetti bombs!!
Follow Knot & Bow
Blog
Sweet Little Fox Party Inspiration
We wanted to share a little table we put together with inspiration for a 'Sweet Little Fox' celebration. We love this as a birthday party theme! Filled with festive balloons, buntings and fox party hats you can not go wrong! We filled a kiddo friendly table with delicious cupcakes from our favorite bakery, Cacao Sweets and Treats and topped them with little glittery hearts, made some pink chocolate covered marshmallows dusted in course sugar and of course what party would be complete without donuts!?! We love balloons and adding some festooning to them makes them even more festive, a little 'sweets' garland completes the backdrop and hangs perfectly above the table! We used our little 'fox food' tags to put on favor boxes and are excited to introduce our new 'prints' {which will be listed soon in our shop, take any illustration and turn it into a print for your kiddos room!} We these pictures make you happy, have a great Monday!!
Icing on the Cake
A little 'Icing on the Cake'...
Kind of in love with every single detail of this photo shoot
Pretzel frozen hot chocolate, yes please
The cutest popsicle molds
Need some fourth of July inspiration, we love all of these great ideas
DIY Confetti wrapping paper, this is the best idea ever
Oh, so summery and gorgeous
Adore these aprons
Just ordered a few things from here, so excited to put them to use
Can't wait to share some fun party ideas complimenting our new collection on Monday!
Happy Weekend Friends!
Sweet Little Fox Party Hats
We hope you liked our new fox collection that we introduced Monday! We have to admit, its one of our favorites! We couldn't wait to come up with fun DIY to go along with it! There is just something about party hats that we love, they just bring 'fun' to any children's celebration {well, ok adult celebrations too!}. But, this is not just any party hat, this is a 'fox' party hat! We had to giggle when we were making these, because the little fox ears peeking out of the hat are so darn cute! Can you imagine how adorable all the kiddos would look wearing one! These are so easy to make and they match the fox on our paper goods...come one you know you want to have a fox party!
Materials:
paper party hat from craft store {to trace}
Blue and white stripe card stock
Pink festooning
Ribbon
Brown and white felt cut into fox ears
{just free hand cut an ear shape in the brown and make a smaller one in white to fit inside}
Hot glue
Icing initial tag
1. Trace your paper party hat {from any craft store} onto your blue and white striped card stock
and cut out.
2. Hot glue your paper into a hat shape.
3. Glue your pink festooning around the bottom of the hat and take a smaller piece and glue to the top.
4. Take your initial tag and glue it onto the center of the hat.
5. Glue the white part of the fox ear to the brown part and then glue behind the fringe of the festooning on either side of the hat.
6. Glue your ribbon to the inside of the bottom of the hat on either side.
Materials:
paper party hat from craft store {to trace}
Blue and white stripe card stock
Pink festooning
Ribbon
Brown and white felt cut into fox ears
{just free hand cut an ear shape in the brown and make a smaller one in white to fit inside}
Hot glue
Icing initial tag
1. Trace your paper party hat {from any craft store} onto your blue and white striped card stock
and cut out.
2. Hot glue your paper into a hat shape.
3. Glue your pink festooning around the bottom of the hat and take a smaller piece and glue to the top.
4. Take your initial tag and glue it onto the center of the hat.
5. Glue the white part of the fox ear to the brown part and then glue behind the fringe of the festooning on either side of the hat.
6. Glue your ribbon to the inside of the bottom of the hat on either side.
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