Lego & Star Wars!!

My co-worker and friend booked me well in advance for her son's 7th birthday party.  She wanted cupcakes that were customized to suit her Lego/Star Wars theme.  I was super excited to bring a smile to her son, Rylan's face in the form of sugary treats (see below), but at first, had no idea what a combination of Lego and Star Wars meant!  Well it didn't take long to find out!  With the help of her custom bingo cards I was well on my creative way.

I AM SOOO PROUD OF THIS DIY PARTY MOM!!  She has not planned many large parties for her son and this year she wanted to go all out for Rylan.  And that she did!!  As I mentioned, she created custom Lego/Star Wars bingo cards for everyone to play.  She actually has allowed me to share them for anyone to use. If you are interested, please email me at frostedandfabulous@gmail.com and I will send you the free download.  Super nice of her eh?!  She found it discouraging that there were not more free downloadable print games like this and expressed her want to share her custom made printables with "all the moms out there".  They are amazing and I am sure lots of moms or party planners will make excellent use of these.  Thank you Rizza!!

She had her uber-talented sister-in-law design the invites for the party.  You can check those out below also.

The lightsabers were made from Foam pipe insulation that was purchased from Rona (a local hardware store) for $.80!! Different colour duct tape allowed the kids to customize their own lightsabers and they even took them home! Instead of traditional loot bags each child brought home a cupcake, lightsaber and treats from the Darth Vader pinata!

The kids also played "Pin the Head on the C3P0".   What a fabulous idea!  Part of the activity was that the kids got to decorate their own C3P0 heads.  Each child wrote their name on the back and the winner of the game got Star Wars tattoos, stickers or a mini lightsaber.  The same prizes were used for the winner of the bingo games as well.

I think the party was a smashing hit!  What do you think?

Lilly is ONE!!

Many of you may remember the Pink and Black baby shower I did approximately one year go. You can see it here if not:   http://frostedandfabulous.blogspot.ca/2011/08/baby-shower-chic-pretty-in-pink.html

Well, that baby shower was for my niece and her Mom, McKayla.  Lilly is turning one this weekend and McKayla has decided to throw here a fabulous MINNIE MOUSE themed birthday.  As it was Lilly's 1st birthday, she undertook to plan the entire party on  her own.  I have included a few photos from the party for your viewing pleasure.  What a great job she did!

Frosted & Fabulous created the custom water bottle labels and helped McKayla assembler her amazingly creative centrepieces.

Since McKayla's sister is a awesome baker the cupcakes were already taken care of.  I thought I would do something a little different for my dessert that I was in charge of making.

I found some inspiration online and this dessert was adorably cute and super duper easy!  You may want to try it at your next Disney party.

All you need is two bags of Oreos.  One large bag and mini bag. You will also need some type of frosting or icing for the bow.  I used royal icing but any type of icing can work for the little pink bows.

For piping my icing I used a #2 Tip and some pink Wilton's gel food colouring.

Very gently separate the tops from the bottom of the Oreos.

Place two mini oreos in between the larger oreo and press VERY gently.  Several cookies cracked on me, but that just meant I got to eat them :)

And the end result - cute Minnie Mouse cookies with a kitchen that does not look like a tornado went through it :)

And the Winners are.........

FINALLY time to announce the winners of my giveaway!  Waaahooo!!

Thank you to everyone for following along and liking the fabulous vendors' facebook pages.

I would like to congratulate the following people:

Drum roll please.........

Karla Schmidt - you have won a custom card from Swish's Etsy Site!! Swish Designs' site.

Erica (Lee) Filson - you have won a $25 Gift Certificate to www.spoccdesign.com.

Lindsay Garrett - you have won glass pearl necklace, earrings and matching bracelet from www.mydreamparty.com .  

Heather Bevilacqua - you have won a cupcake package from Little Britches Bakery! http://www.littlebritchesbakery.com/ 

Joanna Magee - you won a custom water bottle design from Frosted & Fabulous :) http://frostedandfabulous.blogspot.ca/

I will be contacting each of you to fill you in on how to claim your prizes :)

Congrats  Ladies!!

Handmade Thank You Notes

I have been super-duper busy lately and I am SO excited about it.   I sent off one of my first official custom orders!  I will be sharing that one soon - but today I thought I would share something I did for fun.  My day job employer asked me to create something for them to give to staff members for employee appreciation day. I was excited to do something handmade instead of a digital print, so off I went to my craft station/office in our new house and started crafting!  I tried many different colour combinations but something about Navy and Yellow just stuck with me.   We made a little spot on the back for a gift card for each person. Fun eh!?

Here is how they turned out:

I will be posting the winners of my blog giveaway in my next post so stay tuned!!!!
I cant wait !!