Monday, October 10, 2011
What’s a Halloween Party without invitations? These awesome owl invites aren’t too spooky and they’re just right for delivering important party info. Click on any of the pictures below to download your own copy of the PDF to print yourself. (If you want someone else to do the work for you, check out Brightside Prints for the original, customizable invitation.)
1. Print the owl card onto white cardstock and cut into 5×7” cards. 2. Create invitation wording and print onto regular text weight paper. Cut to a 5×7” and roll into a scroll. 3. Punch two small holes into the owl invite. 4. Thread twine through the holes and secure the scroll to the owl card with the twine.
Graphic Design by Brightside Prints. Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Here’s to the good old days, whether you’re inviting friends over for a relaxing birthday party, needing ideas for a family reunion, or just throwing a neighborhood get together. The classic colors and vintage feel of this party are reminiscent of days gone by. With the sun shining and a gentle breeze blowing, you’ll find yourself slipping into memories of your childhood. Games from your youth will bring delight to kids of today and take them back to when blowing the biggest bubblegum bubble was cool and lazy days meant playing outside. An easy potluck that is shared by all is the perfect no fuss meal that keeps the good times rolling. It’s time for some old fashioned country living—welcome to the County Fair.
These eye-catching County Fair invitations come in two sizes and are included as part of our County Fair Party. We’re so excited about our latest party plan that for a limited time we are offering you a chance to see the whole thing for free. Just fill out the form in the sidebar so we can email you the link (or see a mini-preview in our shop).
Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat. Graphic design ©One Charming Party.
Monday, May 9, 2011
It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s a Superhero Party! You don’t need super powers for this party—just a few super skills. There are so many things we love about this party, but our favorite might just be the 3D superhero invitations. 3D glasses aren’t required to read these invites, but they’re even cooler that way. The Superhero invitations are included in the printables section of this party plan and you can print out as many as you’d like. We’ve included some thank you notes that you can print out as well!
The Superhero Party is now for sale in our shop. It’s delivered right to your email inbox immediately after ordering so you can see this party instantly and start planning. It includes over 60 pages of step-by-step instructions and gorgeous photos to clearly show you how to recreate this party at home. You’ll receive the printables pack to print out your own invitations, thank you cards, and other elements of this party. We’ve also added a resources section to help you find the supplies we used. Great for boys and girls, this party is only $25.
Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat. Graphic Design ©One Charming Party.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Hop on over for a Bunny Party. You can print these free invitations for a one, two, and three year old birthday party. Or you can use our generic Easter party invitation for any non-birthday, springtime soiree. Don’t forget to cut out the ears at the top and add a cotton ball tail.
Click below to download an invitation:
Some bunny is turning one.
Some bunny is turning two.
Some bunny is turning three.
Some bunny is having a party.
©One Charming Party.
Monday, March 14, 2011
Spring feels like it’s right around the corner–and what better way to celebrate than a Strawberry Party! Make mini envelopes using strawberry fabric and glue them to a piece of 6″ x 6″ kraft paper. Using water colors, hand paint some strawberries onto the mini invite and mailing envelope for a little something extra. There’s even more party ideas for this berry adorable Strawberry Party to come, so tune in all this week.
We’re so excited to have one of our fave event planners Melanie Blodgett as a guest contributor this week. Visit her on her own blog, You Are My Fave. Photos by Leslie Tippets.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
We’re so excited to bring you our first boy party in our new line of DIY party plans: The Dinosaur Party. Cutesy dinosaur parties are a thing of the past. Young paleontologists want a real dino adventure. Party guests will jump right in to the action as they travel back through time in a prehistoric treasure hunt that all leads to a fantastic bone dig. Don’t worry. We’ll walk you through everything, from making the bones to finding the tools to hiding the clues. After the dig, hungry fossil hunters will have worked up a giganti-saurus appetite. We’ve laid out a full lunch spread, perfect for carnivores and herbivores alike. And after the party is over, you’ll send your guests home with their own dino-mite surprise. It’s a Jurassic journey your birthday boy won’t forget!
This DIY party plans comes right to your inbox as a downloadable pdf and includes over 50 pages of tutorials, party instructions and amazing photos–including step by step directions on how to make dinosaur bones. It also includes the printables pack with invitations, thank you’s, cupcake toppers, name tags, dino hunt clues and more. We’ve been dreaming up this party for so long and we can’t wait for you to create a special day for your child.
Don’t have immediate plans for a dinosaur party? We hope that you will still buy this pdf, look through its pages, and let the ideas and pictures spark your imagination. After all, these party plans are designed to inspire you and give you some awesome eye candy (the photos are gorgeous) whether or not you are going to throw this party. This party is now available in our shop.
To start you off, we thought we’d show you the Dinosaur Party invitations. Perfect for a t-riffic time. They are included in the printables section of the party pdf.
Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Introducing… the invitations for the Pajama Glam Party! Custom designed for this pajama party theme, they are the perfect girly-pink combination. These invites are part of the printables portion of our diy downloadable pdf. The pdf contains over 50 pages of photos and instructions on how to recreate this party yourself, plus all of the printables so you can print out everything you need. Also included are the thank you cards, place cards, cupcake toppers, favor tags and more. This party is now available for purchase in our shop.
Photo by Nicole Hill Gerulat.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Holy superheroes Batman, it’s Wonder Woman! My husband had a crush on Wonder Woman when he was young. Maybe it was her awesome costume or her invisible jet. I don’t know. But I knew that for his birthday I had to throw him a Wonder Woman party. This party is super simple, but I hope you can still get some inspiration from it.
The invitations are old school Wonder Woman cards that I bought online. The stamps are from the Super Heroes stamp collection (U.S. Postal). And I found the retro metal sign at a local antique shop. Don’t turn that dial, there will be more excitement from this party tomorrow. Same bat time, same bat channel.
Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Day #1: invitations. Making gingerbread houses can be a new tradition at your house starting this year. Throw a little decorating party with our easy invites and ideas.
Invitation How-To: Download both sides of this invitation. Using cardstock, print one side of the invite then turn the paper over, put it back into the printer and print the other side. Using the front of the invitation as your guide, cut invitations out along the roof line. You can mail these cute houses as they are in a 5″ x 7″ envelope. Or if you are hand delivering, you can embellish and decorate them with real candy. We used: a round peppermint candy on the roof, mini red M&M’s on the windows and door handle, blue snowflake sprinkles for flowers (from Walmart) on the railing, two mini candy canes for the door (one full candy cane glued to a broken piece with the seam covered by a mini M&M), and some mini white marshmallows in the bottom of the bag for snow. These envelopes can be bought at clearenvelope.com.
Click on an image to download.
Photos and invite design by Sara Westbrook.
Monday, October 11, 2010
Here is another mini party, a bat party. This theme can be used for a child whose birthday is in October, or for a child who loves bats (like mine–no seriously, she loves bats), or for a Halloween party. Go batty with this theme.
If you’re taking a picture of your child’s head for this invite, try to use only 1/3 of the frame so that the picture isn’t too large. Another tip is to take the picture in front of a white wall so that it’s easier to cut out the head. If you are using Photoshop, size the head to 2-2 1/2 inches. Click on the images below to download the PDFs.
Photo and invitation design by Sara Westbrook.
