Littlest PEt Shop Birthday Party

Lindsay's turning 7!!!!!

Well it's only been one year since I last blogged. I think I only like to blog about my kids birthday parties :D

Lindsay wanted a party this year that was all about Littlest Pet Shop. I had to come up with some kind of inviation, I used photoshop a lot for this party. I started by creating this invite using images from google and a pic of Lindsay in her pet shop dress.

I found a really good deal on Walmart.com for the plates/napkins/empty goodie bags/blowers/bracelets/table cloth for $24.

I also found this super attractive skirt at a thrift store, it fit so Lindsay begged me to buy it and this will be the one and only time it is ever worn!

Here are the things in the goodie bags. I added some candy and found the cutest necklaces on etsy. This pic shows the penguin necklace. They are epoxied bottlecaps and were just about $2. Adorable.

I also made Pet shop hair clips, crazy daisys, using pet shop pencil toppers.

Coming up with snacks was loads of fun. I found these adorable pet food bowls at WM for 97cents each. They were such bright and happy colors that I knew they were perfect for our LPS table. I also made little labels using Photoshop and made up cute names for the snacks.

We had goldfish crackers, licorice, puppy chow, carrots, banana chips and ranch dip (not pictured/or named)

I made cute cookies, they were bright paw prints, patterned dog bones and number 7's.

I put some on sticks and wrapped them for the girls to take home for a snack later.

I also found the cutest chocolate mold at Michael's from Wilton. It had the mouths of a puppy, a bunny and a pig. When you hold the stick up to your face it makes you look like that animal. Adorable. These were packaged for the girls to take home as well.

This was my first time ever making a cake for one of my girls. My mom always does them and we recently moved far away and she can no longer do them. lindsay really wanted a tiered cake so I used an 8 inch round and a 6 inch round. At Michael's we found these animal print tattoos from the Ace of Cakes line. We also used a LPS cake topper we found at the party store. I wrote on a sugar cookie instead of directly onto the cake. Then just stuck the stick into the cake.

Here is the table with all the goodies!

We also had games.

I created 8 unique bingo cards using photoshop and google images. They used goldfish crackers as their cover-ups.

We also played a game called "What am I?" they had to guess what LPS character they were by asking yes or no questions, I stapled the pictures to their hats and later we switched about a few times and they seemed to enjoy guessing what they were.

To finish up each girl adopted their own LPS pet. Each girl got a take out box and decorated it with LPS stickers, foam stickers and crayons.

I had each take-out box marked with a sticker and each animal was assigned a matching sticker on their bottom.

Each girl got a little adoption certificate that we filled out before snapping a picture.

It was a lot of fun and I am sure the birthday girl had a great time!!!

Yes, I am a terrible blogger...

I realize it has been months since I've blogged, but really we are rather boring around here so you didnt miss too much!

I am in the process of planning this little firecrackers 6th birthday (doesnt really seem possible). So you probably know how I loved to plan a kid's party so here's how we start!!

This year we are celebrating with a big ol' Pinkalicious Party. If you aren't familiar with Pinkalicious, it is a book about a little girl who makes pink cupcakes with her mom and eats so many of them that she turns pink. She goes to the doctor and her only option is too eat only green things, she doesnt and sneaks more pink cupcakes and turns red!

It is a darling little book, if you have a little girl in your life look at it for her!

Anyhow, any good birthday must start with a cute invitation.

I knew we wanted a cupcake and of course it had to be Pink! We hit my mecca (Hobby Lobby) and had to find the perfect papers for our paper cupcakes.

Lindsay spied a pack of pink cardstock with 5 shades of pink, none were Blush and Bashful though. We snagged that at half off (a whopping $2.50) and some pink swirly openstock on 50% off as well.

We got to work!

I whipped out my Sweet Treats cartridge. I wanted this cart so bad and got it around Thanksgiving, this is the first time I used it (I have problems, yes indeed)

I cut the cupcake out in solid pink and then cut it out again in white and once again in pink swirly paper. Then I cut the liner, one with lines and one solid.

I glued the front of the cupcake together first starting with the non-solid liner, then the solid liner, then the swirly and finallly white. Next I tured the whole shebang into a pocket by only attaching the pink cupcake with glue on the edges.

After my cupcakes were done, I cut out a much smaller cupcake and added a big red juicy cherry to it. The small cupcake has the party info and slips right into the big cupcake pocket. To get the details you pull up on the cherry and voila`!

Next Goodie bags! Whoo hoo, I got those suckers down early this year! Sweet!