Posts Tagged ‘ party invitations ’

We’ve been busy bee’s here of late. Not only are we busy with Spring and Summer weddings, but we celebrated Miss Ella’s 5th Birthday on the weekend. She chose our Buzz Buzz Bee invitations last July (while i was standing on a ladder decorating for her ladybird party!), and has done nothing but talk about her bee party ever since!

I was brave and made the cakes myself this time. Ella and I had fun in the kitchen playing with fondant – it’s the first time I’ve made a cake with fondant, so I’m happy with the way they came up! Some pics below of the dessert table and party, I hope they inspire you for things you can do with our buzz buzz bee party theme.

Food made for the dessert table included Honey Joys, Yo-Yo’s, Ginger-Bee’s and Buzz Cakes. Guests sipped on nectar and were given little ‘sweet as honey’ jars of sweets to take home. Entertainment was provided by Disco Pop Parties – the busy bee’s disco! And we finished up with a bee pinata.

The detail list

Invitations – Alannah Rose Buzz Buzz Bee Party Invitations

Printable Party - Buzz Buzz Bee Party Hats, drink bottle labels, tent cards, sweet as honey labels, by Alannah Rose

Empty Honey Jars – Star Gift Ashburton (these are plastic as I was concerned about glass and five year olds!)

Cake – Made by me! Fondant supplies etc from West’s Cakes

Bee Pinata – The Party Stop

Flowers – Camberwell Florist

Ella’s Bee Dress – The Kids Window (note these are large size dresses, we had to do some alterations to it for it to fit)

Garlands and Fabric – Spotlight – the garlands are wool – about $4.00 for 20 metres!

Bee Cookie Cutter – Baking Pleasures

Entertainment – Disco Pop Parties

A special thank you to Amy Atlas and her team for featuring our party today. Amy is a fabulous source of inspiration. We’re looking forward to seeing her book when it’s released and excited that she is heading out to Australia! Visit her blog for details.

Nothing quite says childhood like an old fashioned carousel- our Take Me To The Fair party invitation conjures up thoughts of fairy floss, ferris wheels and all the naughty food you shouldn’t eat but is so wonderful for little eyes to feast upon!

For little girls, keep your colour palette in soft pastel stripes- lots of pinks, lilacs, soft blues and lemon yellows. Serve your favourite old fashioned treats in carnival style containers and decorate with beautifully created musical carousels.

Clockwise from top left: Alannah Rose Take me To The Fair Party Invitation, fairy floss from Popcorn.com.au, Gelati stripe popcorn box from Pink Frosting, pink cups from Posh In A Box, bowtie from Swagger & Swoon, Musical Merry Go Round from Merry Treasure Shopper

When we asked our Facebook “likers” which of our invitations they liked best recently, our friend and stockist of Alannah Rose, Kathryn of Pink Frosting said “Paris” was definitely her favourite.

We love our Paris party invitation, it conjures up so many beautiful parties – today? a French inspired afternoon tea party. Wire replicas of the Eiffel tower gracing the tables, sweet raspberry macaroons, blooming peonies and of course- the finest of tea leaves drunk from our favourite tea pot!

Clockwise form top left: Alannah Rose La Parti De Paris Invitation, Macaroons from Gourmet Traveller, Iron Eiffel Tower from Paris France Products, Tea Light candle holders from Love, Loans & Linen, Peonies from Just Picked, Teapot from Peters Of Kensington

First birthday parties are inherently special- filled with the baby innocence and the relief of parents surviving the sometimes harrowing first year. Our take on a first birthday party is always perfectly sweet with a few special touches.

This party (inspired by our One Little La La Plane Party Invitation) centers around that boyhood wonder- the airplane. Softly swaying planes hang from the ceiling, clouds decorate the wall, sugary sweet cupcakes with flags and handmade wooden airplanes for guests to take home. Along with cupcakes serve treats like popcorn, fairy floss, milk with brightly striped paper straws, soft squishy marshmallows and plenty of champagne for the adults!

Clockwise from top left: Alannah Rose One Little LaLa Plane Party Invitation,  Flensted Aeromobile Click-a-mobile from About Style, wooden airplane from stumpondtoy, cupcake flag from Details Details, blue striped straws from Details Details, cloud garland from Paperklip Design, cupcakes from Cakes and Art from Cupcakes Takes The Cake

I don’t think the lily with it’s vibrant pinks and white will ever go out of style for a wedding! Today’s inspiration comes from the Lily Blush Wedding Invitation.

Clockwise from top left: Alannah Rose Lily Blush wedding invitation, Luci Di Bella Martine gown,  lily bouquet by Flowers By Design, Knot drop earrings from Mimco, Christian Louboutin Satin Crisscross Slide from Neiman Marcus

There’s nothing we love more than celebrating a brand new baby and we think our Hatching Soon Baby Shower Invitation has just the right amount of cluck, cluck cluckiness for any mum to be!

A birdie theme is just right for a baby shower, the promise of sweet new things to come! Sweet treats like cupcakes are a must (and we think a bottle of perfect pink bubbles for the guests is a necessary accompaniment!) and sugared almonds in twig nests echo our birdie and egg theme. Pretty garlands strung from the rafters look perfect blowing in the breeze and our La La Bird Pocket Mirrors are the perfect gift for games or to share with your guests as a token of appreciation!

Clockwise from Top Left: Alannah Rose Hatching Soon Baby Shower Invitation, Pink sugared almonds from Wedding Favors Now, Nesting Birds Birds Nests from The Baby Shower Shop, Bird cupcake from Sweetopia, Birdie garland from Paperklip Design, Alannah Rose La La Bird Pocket Mirror

October is the month for all things spooky, with the Halloween season right around the corner, we thought our Spooky Spider Invitation and new matching Spooky Spider gift tags are just the ticket for your own spooky after dark party this month!

There’s no reason a spooky party needs to be limited to children- especially when there are such delicious treats like spooky cocktails, midnight treats and perfectly spooky costumes to play with! Why not throw a midnight spooky spider party with your friends? Make it a dress up theme and light the room with only the flickering of candle light. Serve spooky treats and don’t forget the cocktails!

Clockwise from top left: Spooky bat cookies from Cookie Couture, Alannah Rose Spooky Spider Invitation, Tulip centrepiece photo from Hostess With The Mostess, Black Widow cocktail recipe & photo from Talk Of Tomatoes, Plastic spiders from 24-7 Party Pak, ghost cake from Martha Stewart, Alannah Rose Spooky Spider gift tags, orange votive candle holders from Candles D-Light.

Hot off the presses, our gorgeous new collection of boxed party invitation designs have arrived. We’ve gone for a bit of a garden theme this season with bee’s, ladybirds and an update on our popular spooky spider invitation. All new designs are in store now and are also being shipped as we speak to many of our lovely stockists. I can’t wait to see the parties you create for these new designs. x

This sweet new buzz buzz bee party invitation design will have little party guests buzzing, the unisex design is perfect for birthday’s and baby showers.

Every little girls favourite, this lovely ladybird party invitation is the perfect starter for a garden theme party

And finally – our popular spider invitation is back! Revamped and spookier than ever! Now with a black background, spooky is sure to make your guests jump. Perfect for spooky parties, and let’s not forget Halloween!

My youngest daughter and I had a lovely afternoon yesterday testing out some ideas for party food for her 4th birthday later in the year. These pretty little pops are the results of our efforts.

These lovely marshmallow pops are so easy to make, even the kids could do them.

You’ll need:
1 packet of marshmallows
1 packet of choc melts
Coloured sprinkles or candy to decorate
cocktail forks or lollipop sticks
baking paper

Simply place a marshmallow on the stick or fork, dip in the melted chocolate and place on the baking paper. Decorate with the sprinkles and then place in the fridge to set. Once set remove from fridge and place in rows on a plate for a great dessert table idea that the kids will love.
xx

…from the bottom of my heart to all the beautiful bloggers worldwide that have featured Alannah’s Lala Bird Party in the last month.

Amongst them my idols (eek Amy Atlas!), favourites, friends and some fantastic new blogs that I’m thrilled to find. I’m truly humbled and honoured. Thank you.

Make sure you pay them all a visit, these blogs are full of beautiful inspiration, words and ideas.
Suzi xx

Thank you to the following blogs:
Sweet Designs by Amy Atlas
Party Perfect
Little.Lovely
Cheesecakes & Cupcakes
Multiply Delicious
Mini Gaga
Cornflake – Bank on Good Style
Stationery Scoop
Not just a Mommy
Candy & Cake
Twiggi
Curly Birds
Crash this Party
Lilac and Yellow
Celebrations at Home

Special thanks also to the following gorgeous bloggers who have also mentioned our party invitations this month.
Bloesem Kids via Jennifer at Mini Stylista
Little Red Bus

(if I’ve missed you, it’s not intentional (it took me a while to sort through the links!) please let me know and I’d love to add you to the list! x)

Last weekend my little girl turned 5, we celebrated with a pretty pink and red lala bird theme, based around our lala bird invitations. The lala bird invitations were named after Alannah, I call her lala for short, so it was only fitting that she should celebrate with the lala bird party theme.

I had such fun with this party, I never grow tired of red and pink together it’s such an unexpected but pretty combination, and I found that there are endless options of bird things that you can pick up from all over the place to help set the scene.

above: customised lala bird party invitations from Alannah Rose; ‘la la’ on her party day. The gorgeous red and white party dress is from Little Gems.

above: Tissue paper pom poms, birds and hearts hung from the ceiling; gingerbread birds in cellophane wrap, I found the cookie cutter for these from Cute Cups on etsy here

above: the dessert table; happy birthday banner by paperklip; the stunning hydrangeas were ordered specially for me by Camberwell Florist; easy to follow instructions for the tissue paper pom poms can be found here

above: Jodi from Designer Cakes created this beautiful La La bird cake for me; the stunning pink and red roses also from Camberwell Florist (I can’t remember the name of the variety, but I’ll certainly be asking for them again).

above: lala bird party hats made by me with an extra special one just for the birthday girl

I kept the dessert table food to a theme of red, pink, chocolate, birds and hearts. Food included, cupcakes, gingerbread birds, sweets, candy kebabs, chocolate crackles, and heart shaped fairy bread.

As we had quite a few children at the party I also set up an area outside, this is where we served the hot food for lunch and played the party games.

The table centre piece was simply a handful of fallen branches that I collected, spray painted and placed in a vase, we then hung some lovely wooden birds from it that I found in Bed, Bath N Table, together with some crepe paper roses that I made.

All children love party games, and whilst we played some traditional favourites like pass the parcel, musical chairs and pinata, I wanted to also incorporate something on theme. I got the idea for these nifty little cups from the Eat Drink Chic blog, and thought they’d be great to use as ‘nests’ for the children to do an egg hunt. The child that found the most eggs got to choose a prize from the birdcage. (and of course they all got to keep their eggs).

The cups are super easy to make, simply buy plain paper cups, punch a hole either side at the top, insert ribbon and you’ve got a pretty little favour basket or candy cup.

Thirsty birds need drink: I love these pop top bottles (available at Safeway) they’ve got not artificial colours and flavours and they’re perfect for parties – it saves you time pouring drinks and eliminates spillages on the party table. I made the little labels to co-ordinate in with the rest of the stationery.

Sweet tweets: All little birds love a tweet (or treat) at the end of a party, I used our little lala bird party bag tags, and found these gorgeous little pink pegs on etsy here. Together with an assortment of lollies for the guests, each party bag also had a necklace gift ‘for pretty birds’ inside. The girls and I made these together, they’re simple and cost effective to make – just take a length of ribbon and thread some wooden beads onto it, tying a knot in between each bead – I then just slipped them into a cellophane bag.

My little lala bird loved her bird party, we’re already in discussions for the next one, and her little sister bells has put in a request for a new design for her party in July… stay tuned xx

Following from our last post, I received another gorgeous circus theme party in my inbox this week. This time from the very talented Sacha at Bridal Survival.

Sacha arranged this fantastic party for her partner’s 30th Birthday – held in the rotunda of a local park and themed in true Big Top style, Sacha wowed not only her partner but their guests and friends.

Being in the park Sacha’s main requirements were that everything was easy to set up and take down. Casual was a must on the birthday boy’s list – so a fun, relaxed setting in the park with bbq lunch and friends was the perfect way to celebrate.

The theme started with our Roll Up Circus party invitations and was carried through with beautiful details including make your own lolly bags, pinwhirls and giant lollipops, whilst guests clowned around with red noses, moustaches and juggling balls.

Sacha sourced her supplies from a variety of online and local stores including:
Bunting – made by Sacha; fabric from spotlight, Paper straws and popcorn cups from Bake It Pretty, Striped table runners from Details Details Toffee Apples from here, Balloons and ties from Pink Frosting, Red noses, mustaches and juggling balls from ebay. White raspberry fairy floss and movie style popcorn from Flossy’s fairy floss , Cake – Homemade, Lolly buffet contained old fashioned circus fair – toffee apples (as above), fairy floss (as above) movie style popcorn in boxes (details as above) candy bracelets, redskins, crackle and pop bars and different lollipops. Star and Elephant shape cookies made by Sacha.

The gorgeous pinwheel centrepieces were also made by Sacha using instructions, sticks, pins and beads from Pin Whirls on the recommendation of Prue from Gigi & Lulu. Pinwheel paper from Paper Heaven.
Invitations and lolly bag tags from Alannah Rose.

Thanks so much for sharing with us Sacha – what a beautiful party!