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Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers!! Here's a little eye candy for today... my favorite parties of the week!

Check out this fantastic staff appreciation party, a very clever Mr. Potato Head Pirate party, a Ninjago party with real ninjas, and a Mother's Day photo shoot that will make you say "wow"!

Clockwise from top left:

• Tammy M's Oh! The Places You'll Go
• Dreamin N Details' Mr Potato the Pirate
• Sweet Memories Party Design's Mama Owl!
• Amy W's Jude's Ninjago Birthday!

Have a great day! Thanks for adding all your great parties to our site so I can show them off!!

 

 

 

My friend, Ana, from Love Pretty Garlands is giving away a handmade fabric lettered garland worth $75. And you get to pick the letters and colors you want! You can either choose a 10cm high letter garland with a maximum of 13 letters, or a 15cm high lettered garland with a maximum of 7 letters. Both choices will have two stars or hearts at the ends.

How beautiful would this look in a baby's nursery or a child's bedroom. Plus, it's the perfect gift for a baby shower!

To enter the giveaway, just "like" Love Pretty Garlands below, then leave a comment at the end of this post saying you did it.

Love Pretty Garlands makes the most adorable handmade garlands for various occasions. Please visit Love Pretty Garlands to view more of Ana's garlands.

We’ll pick the winner at random on May 16th at 10:00PM EDT . Any entries after that won’t be considered, sorry. We will use random.org to generate our winner and will notify the winner by email. Good luck! This is a sponsored post.

Here are some fun posts I did for Spoonful this week...

These bright party ideas will help you and your guests have a Sunshiney day!

A colorful drink umbrella wreath is easier to make than you think!

Many boys love motorcycles, so why not throw a motorcycle party?

For more party planning inspiration, check out all my posts on Spoonful!

Mother's Day is Sunday! What are you planning? If you're entertaining, here are some fabulous brunches and parties to give you inspiration. If you're taking the day off.. more power to you (but please enjoy these photos)!!

To see each party, click on the link or the photo...

Nicole W's Mother's Day Garden Party

Laura's Little Party's Mother's Day Brunch

Michelle S's Mother's Day Scrapbook Luncheon

Crissy's Crafts's Mother's Day Lunch

Rachel's Mommy and Me Picnic Brunch

Lynlee B's Mother Hen Brunch

Norene C's Mother's Day Dessert Table

Tammy M's Mother's Day Celebration

Michelle S's Mother's Day Celebration

Tonya C's "Cute As A Button" party

And if you need free Mother's Day printables to decorate your brunches and celebrations, we've got six beautiful collections!

If you want to see even more creativity, please check out all the Mother's Day parties on our site.

Do you think of yourself as a "foodie"? Then have you seen the newly redesigned Foodie site? It's filled with photos of beautiful dishes and new inspiring recipes that are easy to bookmark. I don't know about you, but I love browsing photos of gorgeous food. I find it weirdly relaxing. I think it must be the feeling of comfort it evokes. Do you feel the same way?

One of the best thing about Foodie is if you want to add your recipes to the site, it's simple (no need to retype). With their bookmarlet tool (like the Pinterest "pin" button), Foodie will upload your recipes all by itself. Plus you can follow people you like and have people follow you. Here's my info if you want to follow me.

Foodie has a Foodie iPad app that's updated seasonally. It features some of the best recipes from the site. Personally, I think the Spring Flavor app looks delicious and I just downloaded it. I love having great recipes at my fingertips on my iPad. Makes cooking so much easier!

Look for our recipes in an upcoming edition!

Disclosure: This post was sponsored by Foodie.com.

Ana, from Love Party Printables has designed a beautiful "Here Comes the Bride" collection of FREE bridal shower printables just for us, and I am so excited to be giving these away!

What makes these printables so special is that the invitation and tented cards are editable. That means you can open them up and type in your own text before printing. Now your shower will look even more professional!

This collection includes: editable invitations, editable tented cards, 2" party circles, a welcome sign, straw flags, napkin rings, party labels, favor tags, water bottle labels, a banner, wine glass markers, invitations, and cupcake wrappers.

DOWNLOAD THE HIGH RESOLUTION FILES FOR PRINTING HERE:

• Bridal shower party printables
• Bridal shower editable tented cards
• Bridal shower editable invitation

Here are the individual files...

***Editable invitations

 

***Editable tented cards

 

 

 

Thank you, Ana, for creating such a stunning collection! I know a lot of brides-to-be will be happy!

To learn more about Ana and see all of her beautiful designs, please visit her at Love Party Printables.

Melissa Newell from My Party Passion, is with a new picnic Party on a Budget post!

Spring has sprung Y’all! It’s Me, Melissa – the Party on a Budget go-to-gal. With Spring comes more mini parties! Today, it’s all about bugs... Ladybugs!

As with most of my Mini Parties on a Budget, it all starts with one item that gives me inspiration – usually from the dollar store. No exception here. This little plastic box with dots on it was the inspiration for this Mini Party.

The other party supplies that I gathered, all came from my crafting closet or the recycle bin (still keeping it earthy here at My Party Passion)!

The Setting: Our front yard. The grass finally showed us its true beauty with lush green colors. The girls each had a “ladybug” rug to sit on – old rugs from IKEA that I put black paper dots on.

In front of them were two picnic themed table runners and homemade place mats (see HERE for a tutorial on how to make these from old gift bags).

Each girl had their initial on a board (made from pizza boxes) that I made to go with the theme. I used old wrapping paper to cover them (bought after Christmas sale 2 years ago at a craft store) and tore crepe paper to create their initials. I cut out some ladybugs to scatter throughout the party – using my Silhouette SD Machine.

The “sweets” table was a fun to create using my white and red IKEA frames ($1 per frame – they paid for themselves long ago) and cutting out backgrounds from scrap paper. I made it simple and affordable. I had filled the plastic dotted boxes with a strawberry Special K bar and some strawberries for the girls. They also feasted on a chocolate fudge mini cake with whipped topping and strawberries. A few spotted balloons and a picnic basket finished this off.

Goodies: Of course what would a party be without a little “take away goody." This time I found little mani/pedi kits in the shape of ladybugs at our local dollar store. These worked perfectly. Putting them into a little see-through bag with a personalized clip on them finished them off.

After the girls were done eating, they wanted their pictures taken with their “initial signs." For this, we went out back to our only flowering bush (at the time).

All in all the girls had fun and it cost me less than $10 for the entire party.

It’s almost Memorial Day – are you celebrating with a party? Until next time – Party On Friends!

Thank you, Melissa, what an adorable way to enjoy the nice weather! To learn more about Melissa, visit her at My Party Passion.

I really struggled this week narrowing down my top four parties -- there were so many great ones -- but here they are. This week I'm showing off a vintage Parisian bridal shower, an arcade birthday, an adorable superhero party, and a rainbow camping arts & crafts party. You will be blown away!

Here are the parties clockwise from the top left:

• Kelli M's Vintage Parisian Bridal Shower
• Sarah E's Arcade Themed 6th Birthday Party
• Patricia S's RICRDINHO 3 YEARS OLD BIRTHDAY
• Melissa T's Camp Arts and Crafts

Thanks for adding such amazingness to our site! Until next week...

Here are some fun posts I did for Spoonful this week...

This Vanilla Sugar Scrub is simple to make and it smells amazing!  Perfect Mother's Day gift!

Want to throw a fun Monster party? This post has lots of great ideas!

Check out these 13 great graduation party ideas, plus FREE printables!

For more party planning inspiration, check out all my posts on Spoonful!

 

CakeFYI is here to show you how to make bright, bold, beautiful rainbow cupcakes...

As spring is upon us, and bright colors are beginning to pop, it’s time to add some color to your desserts! You’ve probably seen the infamous layered rainbow cakes filling up your Pinterest feed, but what about rainbow cupcakes? These cupcakes, inspired by those layered rainbow cakes, will serve as the ultimate pop of color at your next event. Starting with a basic white cupcake batter, they’re incredibly easy to make. Use any color combinations you like to make your own unique dessert.

Ultimate Rainbow Cupcakes

Makes 12 cupcakes

Ingredients:

• 1/2 Cup Butter, softened
• 1 1/4 Cup Sugar
• 2 Eggs
• 2 Teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
• 1 1/4 Cups Flour
• 1 3/4 Teaspoons Baking Powder
• 1/4 Teaspoon Salt
• 3/4 Cup Milk

 

Directions:

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.

In the bowl of a stand mixer, cream the butter and sugar until fluffy.

Beat in the eggs one at a time, and then add the vanilla extract and mix well.

Add a third of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and beat until incorporated.

Add half of the milk and mix well.

Add another third of the flour, mix, and then add the remaining milk.

Add the remaining flour and continue beating until well mixed.

Separate the batter into 6 bowls or cups. You’ll want about 1/2 cup of batter in each. I like to use paper cups for easy clean up!

Color each cup of batter a separate color, from red to violet. I used Wilton gel food coloring, but you can use any food coloring of your choice.

Add one tablespoon of violet batter to each cupcake well. Then add the blue, the green, and so on.

You’ll finish with the red.

Bake for 16-18 minutes until golden. Set aside to cool before icing.

Basic Buttercream Icing

Ingredients:

1/2 Cup Butter, softened 3-3 1/2 Cups Powdered Sugar> 1 Teaspoon Pure Vanilla Extract 1 Tablespoon Milk

Beat the butter and a 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar.

Add the vanilla and milk and continue beating.

Continue to add powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.

Using the same method as above, separate the icing into bowls or cups. This time, I only used 4 colors, but you can certainly use all 6!

Color each cup of icing a separate color. I used violet, green, blue, and yellow.

Prepare a piping bag with your favorite icing tip. To make the swirled color effect, simply alternate colors while filling the bag. Do one scoop of violet, one of green, and so on. Beat the butter and a 1/2 cup of the powdered sugar.

Add the vanilla and milk and continue beating.

Continue to add powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency.

Using the same method as above, separate the icing into bowls or cups. This time, I only used 4 colors, but you can certainly use all 6!

Color each cup of icing a separate color. I used violet, green, blue, and yellow.

Using slight pressure, pipe thick swirls of icing on top of your cupcakes.

 

Thanks Molly, they're gorgeous! To learn more about Molly check her out at CakeFYI.