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One of my daughter's closest friends is in love with the movie Cars, so in honor of him, and in honor of all the other boys who love it, too, I thought would highlight these incredibly original and creative Cars birthday parties on our site.
I'd never seen anything like these fabulous paper lantern garlands Katie made for her My Little Sunshine 1st Birthday. So I asked her if she would do a quick tutorial on how she did it. And here it is!!
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We get a lot of princess parties on our site. In fact it's one of the most popular themes for girl birthdays. To give you some inspiration and ideas, I thought I'd showcase the different kinds of princess parties we've seen on our site, from the most traditional to the most unusual.
See what you think...
The generous folks at CSN Stores have given us a $50 gift certificate to give away. For those of you who don't know, CSN sells everything for your home, from kitchenware, to hardware, to toys, and to even console tables.
Some of my favorite $50 items...
Are we the luckiest blog or what? Now Lindi from Love the Day has designed these gorgeous FREE Halloween party printables just for our readers!
There are cupcake toppers/party labels, water bottle labels, cupcake wrappers, and a large cobweb "welcome" sign! Now there's no excuse not to throw a Halloween party.
From Melangerie, comes this adorable "Dirty Laundry" Clothes Line Guest Book Kit, perfect for any bridal shower.
Guests get to air their bride-to-be's "dirty laundry" by jotting down stories, notes, and well wishes on cards shaped as t-shirts, tank tops, pants, and skirts, then hang them on a clothesline with mini clothespins. How cute!
I'm so excited to announce a new page on our site called party inspirations and themes.
It's just a big list o' themes, but if you click on one, you'll see all the parties on our site with that theme.
As promised, here is Part 2 of our feature on kids' cakes on our site. Check out these insanely great cakes...
Cari's Camp Four Birthday Party
I'm a sucker for beautiful packaging, so I was very excited to stumble upon the Packagery, a shop on Etsy. They sell everything for party favor packaging, from boxes to labels to tags to twine.
Here are some of my favorite items from their store: favor boxes, tags, ribbon, twist ties, library cards, and garlands.
This post is not actually a tip from a Catch My Party member, but a tip from two member, Melissa and Kellie of Icing Designs, a company that specializes in hand-illustrated and hand-glittered invitations, cards, cupcake flags and gift tags.
Melissa and Kellie have added some exquisite parties to our site, and they have a great party design blog where they post many DIY tutorials.