Kai's First Birthday-You are my Sonshine

Fashion Party

My Girls wanted a Fashion party this year for their combined birthday party so I went to work to design a party that wasn't too "little girl" or too "adult".  Amaya's favorite color is blue and Fiona's is red so I worked with those two colors.  It was a blast to design and I think the finished results were awesome!  Everyone had a blast at the party.  I think the highlight was the "red carpet" photo shoot we had set up where we used a Ung Drill frame from Ikea to "frame" us and make silly faces and poses.  What a blast!

 The Invitations

These I designed and cut out using my Pazzles machine and patterned and plain cardstock from Michaels.  The ribbon is from Michaels and the flowers are from Doodlebug Paper Posies.

 The Party

The red carpet was purchased at Party City

 I designed the posters using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop and printed them on my Epson 1400 on 13" x 19" glossy photo paper

 I gave my Father in Law a picture of the shoe and he designed the pinata for me and I decorated it.

 I used white wrapping paper draped on the wall for the photo shoot background and cut out A's and F's to give it an authentic Red Carpet feel

We set out scarves, hats, sunglasses and used the candy lips and mustaches for props during the photoshoot.

 I found the lips lollipops at Wal-Mart in their valentine section.  I purchased the mustache lollipop mold from Bake it Pretty

 I created the chevron pattern in Illustrator and then designed the tags, signs and posters and printed them on my Epson 1400

 The plates and napkins were found in the Valentine section at Wal-Mart

 I ordered the cake undecorated from Publix and then frosted it with "ruffles" myself and added the Barbie boots to the top for decoration

Inside the favor boxes for the "Divas"  were miniature Hello Kitty "Viewmaster" type cameras and high heel shoe pencil sharpeners along with High Fashion shoes that I printed on sticker paper and cut out

For the "Dudes" were black toy cars, stick on hairy mustaches and assorted shaped mustaches printed on sticker paper and cut out (all of the favors were purchased at Party City)

 The cd's were printed with coordination designs and burned with "Fashion" music for each family to take home

I found a dingbat online of shoes and boots and cut them out using my Pazzles machine and hung them behind the party table along with red streamers

 The gatorade bottles were adorned with labels created with photoshop in coordination designs