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Unicorn Jewellery Making Birthday Party

10/23/2016

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Unicorn party decor from karaspartyideas.com.
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Unicorn horns from karaspartyideas.com.
One of our favourite party themes ever is a unicorn party theme.  We adore all the beautiful magical colours and how much fun you can have with this magical theme.

A mom booking a beading party was doing a unicorn theme and asked us if we could design a custom beading project for her party, of course we said yes, and we were thrilled with how it turned out and wanted to share this awesome party theme with you!
Party Invitations:
This is such an easy theme to choose invites for because there are so many beautiful unicorn invitations to choose from.  You can also download a printable invitation online such as this one.
 
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Party Decor:
We adore the colour scheme that you would use for this party.  All pastel colours, such as pastel blue, pastel pink, pastel purple, pastel pink, pastel green and pastel yellow.  You would also use gold and gold glitter.

Blow up balloons in pastal colours and blow up clear balloons and fill them with glitter see here for instructions. 

Hang up dreamcatchers in pastel colours, you can make these yourself, like this beautiful one from Kara's party ideas. 

You can also make your own garland like this one in pastel colours to match your theme.

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Party Food:
For a unicorn party you want the food to look as beautiful as possible and in pastel colours, such as marshmallows, chocolate covered pretzels, and unicorn bark (click here for recipe).  

When making your cake or cupcake, make the inside of the cake rainbow, this is such a fun surprise for the guests.  When making the cake or cupcakes, use pastel colours and lots of gold glitter.

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Bracelets from Beading Buds fancy bracelet package with a unicorn charm.
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Bracelets from Beading Buds fancy bracelet package with a unicorn charm.
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Bracelets from Beading Buds fancy bracelet package with a unicorn charm.
Party Activities:
This party is all about magical fun.  Hand out unicorn horns to all of the guests to wear during the party.  Have them decorate ice cream cones with icing and sprinkles to make their own unicorn themed treat.  You can also play pin the horn on the unicorn and have a unicorn pinata.  Another fun idea is to have the girls make jewelry with a unicorn charm.  For more information about our fancy bracelet birthday party packages.
We hope that you have as much fun planning your unicorn themed birthday party as we had doing this post. 
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Unicorn cupcakes from elevate-everyday.com.
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DIY decorated horns from frauleinh.blogspot.com.
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How to Make a Jewelry Box Birthday Cake

8/25/2016

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When we book our birthday parties, moms often ask us for tips for planning their jewelry making birthday party.  One of our favourite suggestions is for the mom to make a jewelry box birthday cake.  Here is the perfect jewelry box cake recipe.
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Ingredients

Lid:
  • 8 whole graham crackers (2 squares each)
  • 10 oz. white baking chocolate

Jewelry Box Cake:
  • 2 box poundcake mix (preferably Betty Crocker)
  • 2 can strawberry frosting
  • 1 can Vanilla Frosting

Compartments & Drawer:
  • 4 whole graham crackers
  • 9 creme-filled sugar wafer cookies
  • 1 white gumball

Jewelry:
  • Assorted edible jewelry such as rings, necklaces, bracelets, and gumballs
  • You also need: 1 icing bag with a small star tip and a writing tip

  1. Make Lid: On a large foil-lined baking sheet arrange 4 whole graham crackers, flat sides down and long sides touching. Next to them, add 1 more row, narrow ends touching, to make a rectangle about 10 x 8 3⁄4 in. Melt white chocolate as package directs. Evenly spread over crackers to cover. (If some seeps between crackers, that's OK.) Let chocolate dry overnight.
  2. Make Jewelry Box Cake: Heat oven to 325ºF. Coat a 13 x 9 x 2-in. baking pan with nonstick spray. Line bottom with wax paper; spray paper. Prepare 1 box cake mix as package directs. Spread batter evenly in prepared pan. Bake 25 minutes, or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack 10 minutes before inverting on rack to cool completely. Repeat with other box of cake mix. Wrap and refrigerate.
  3. To assemble: Carefully invert Lid so chocolate is underneath. Spread top with 2⁄3 cup strawberry frosting.
  4. Cut a 2-in. strip from one short end of each cake. Cut a 1-in. piece crosswise off 1 strip. Set aside uncut strip and 1-in. piece for drawer (you won't need rest of cut strip).
  5. Put 1 cake layer, right side up, on a flat 14 x 12-in. or larger serving surface, leaving at least 2 1⁄2 in. from front edge of serving surface for the drawer. Spread top of cake with 2⁄3 cup strawberry frosting; top with other cake, right side up. Frost top with 2⁄3 cup vanilla frosting.
  6. Make Compartments: Using a sawing motion with a serrated knife, carefully cut remaining 4 crackers in half lengthwise. Frost 1 side using 2 Tbsp vanilla frosting. Put frosted sides, facing in, into frosting around top edge of cake. Set wafer cookies, long edge down, into frosting to make compartments.
  7. Reserve 1⁄4 cup vanilla frosting. Place remaining vanilla frosting in pastry bag fitted with writing tip. With shorter edge of frosted lid facing you, pipe name and butterflies on top 3⁄4 of lid (when attached to box, bottom of lid won't be seen).
  8. Frost sides of cake with 1 1⁄3 cup strawberry frosting. Carefully lift lid and attach to back of cake, gently pressing to adhere to frosting on cake. Stack filled food cans against back of lid to hold it in place until frosting sets.
  9. Make Drawer: Press reserved cake strip A (click here for diagram ) and 1-in. piece B onto front of cake. Frost top and sides with reserved 1⁄4 cup vanilla frosting. Place remaining halved crackers, frosted sides in, around drawer. Coat with strawberry frosting. Press gumball knob in center.
  10. Pipe butterflies on sides of cake. Change piping tip to star tip. Pipe stars around lid, top of box and drawer. Let set at least 4 to 6 hours. Remove cans.
  11. Fill with edible jewelry.
  12. To make rings & earrings: Use frosting to glue assorted rock candy or gumballs to gummy or regular Lifesavers candies.
We found the recipe here, for great cake ideas check out http://www.womansday.com.
Beading Buds Jewelry making cake
Beading Buds Jewelry making cake
Beading Buds Jewelry making cake
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Cream and Gold Baby Shower Beading Party

11/9/2015

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We've noticed an increasing trend in parents waiting until they give birth to find out the gender of their baby.  This can make baby shower planning more difficult because you cannot use the traditional shower decorating themes of pink and blue. 

Nancy, from Just the Facts Baby, suggests that a glamorous, glitzy and fun alternative gender neutral shower decor theme is gold and cream.  She has compiled five photos of gold and cream parties that we think are the perfect inspiration when planning a gender neutral shower.

With such a fabulous theme, we suggest that a fun baby shower activity where guests can make their own party favour is to have a jewelry making station.  We can customize their jewelry making kits to go with each shower theme, for a cream and gold themed party, guests can make beautiful cream and gold jewelry.  To order a jewelry making party kit, click here.


Have any other suggestions for a gold and cream themed baby shower?  Please let us know in the comments below.  Happy shower planning!
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Bollywood Themed Tikka Beading Party

10/29/2015

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We recently did a bollywood themed beading birthday party where the girls made tikka headpieces.  It was such a fun party and it really goes perfectly with the theme of beading.  The party was such a hit, that we are adding this theme to our beading party packages.

Here are some tips and tricks to help you throw your own amazing bollywood beading birthday party.
tikka jewelry jewellery making beading buds birthday party bollywood cookies
A cake for a bollywood birthday party should be very colourful with lots of bold colours. 

If possible use edible beads.  The goes well with the theme of beading and the theme of bollywood.  Use lots of gold and silver to make the cake look magical.

Tikka beading buds jewelry making birthday party
Every party needs a few themed crafts to keep the guests busy.  A simple and fun idea with big impact is to use sticker gem beads to decorate around the girls eyes.  Purchase some henna tattoos and have the girls apply the tattoos to each other while you are doing the face stickers.  Finally, another fun use of stickers gems is to buy flip flops for each guest and have them decorate them with the sticker gems.  This also becomes a fun take home loot bag. 

Another craft that we love is to have the girls create a Tikka.  We will soon be offering kits and packages on making your own Tikka, but in the meantime, check out this link for making a diy tikka headpiece click here.

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Now that the girls are all blinged out with their eye jewels, henna tattoos, new slippers and tikka headpieces, it is time for the girls to do something active. 

Purchase some glass bangles for each child.  This can also become part of their take home loot bag.  Put on a bollywood music video and let the girls have some fun dancing along.

For  more ideas and bollywood themed birthday party inspiration, check out our pinterest page click here.  We hope you enjoyed this blog post about bollywood birthday parties.  If you have any suggestions of your own, we would love to know about them in the comments below.
Beading Buds Bollywood jewelry beading birthday party cupcakes
Beading Buds Bollywood jewelry beading birthday party cake
Beading Buds Bollywood jewelry beading birthday party cake
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Frozen Jewelry Making Birthday Party

9/20/2015

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beading buds snow princess birthday party kit
This time of year winter themed birthday parties are so popular.  We love how pretty and magical this theme can be, with sparkly silver and blue decor, cakes and winter themed activities. 

We have snow princess beading party package that is ideal for a winter wonderland party, a Frozen party, or any other winter themed party.

Here are some ideas to  help you make your winter themed party amazing.


PictureSilver spray painted branches for a beading buds frozen themed birthday party.
For inexpensive but big impact, gather up branches and spray paint them silver, then add some glue and silver glitter.  These branches can be placed all over to give the room a magical feel.

Another fun idea is to make your own paper snowflakes and hang them from the ceiling.

Blow up silver and baby blue balloons, cover the top of the balloon in glue and add glitter, and then hang from the ceiling.

Finally, use silver holiday decorations to help with the magical feel.


There are so many fun desserts that you can have at you party that help to tie in the theme of beading with the frozen winter wonderland theme.  Macaroons look like beads and they can be frosted in silver and blue.  You can have blue cupcakes with little beads on them, and you can take marshmallows and dip them in blue jello powder and cellophane wrap them.  The marshmallow looks like a bead, and is a great lootbag idea that is inexpensive, simple and perfectly themed.
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Frozen beading buds birthday party cake pops
Our snow princess kits are the perfect addition to any  frozen winter wonderland theme party.  The kits come packaged individually for each child with a variety of blue and white glass pearls and a stunning heart clasp starting at $6 per child.  The activity takes the girls about 30 minutes to complete is the perfect lootbag.  For more information, click here.

Happy party planning!
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Lalaloopsy Jewel Beading Birthday Party Ideas

9/8/2015

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Jewel Sparkles, one of the main characters from Lalaloopsy, is named after her infatuation with the most sparkly jewels she can dazzle herself with, and that is why beading is the perfect activity to have at your Lalaloopsy party.  With all the bight colours and quirky options, this is such a fun theme.
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DIY Lalaloopsy Button Straws.
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Lalaloopsy candy apples.
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Lalaloopsy beading station from Catch My Party.
When planning your Lalaloopsy birthday party, buttons are a fun detail to incorporate to tie everything together.  You can make your own paper buttons and attach to straws, you can add fondant buttons to candy apples (click here) or cupcakes, you can make button cookies (click here) and you can draw button holes onto paper plates to turn them into giant buttons.

Jewelry making is a fun craft activity that keeps the children entertained while they make their own lootbag, for more information on our jewelry party kits, click here.  Another fun lootbag idea is to buy Lalaloopsy cups and fill them with treats and other goodies, you can then cellophane wrap them to have a simple but beautiful lootbag.
Beading Buds lalaloopsy necklace
Lalaloopsy style necklace made by Beading Buds.
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Lalaloopsy lootbags from PartyCity.
There are so many fun cakes and cupcakes that you can do for this theme. 
Beading Buds Lalaloopsy birthday party jewel cake
Jewel Sparkles cake from sheryberry sweets.
Beading Buds Jewel Sparkes Birthday Cake
Jewel Sparkles cake from ilovechrissycakes.
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Jewel Sparkles cake from Mama Cakes.
For more DIY Lalaloopsy birthday party ideas, click here to visit our pinterest page.

We hope you have a great Jewel Sparkles Lalaloopsy Beading Birthday Party.
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Pink and Gold Jewelery Making Birthday Parties

9/1/2015

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beading buds pink and gold jewellery making partyPink and gold beading birthday party decor from blog.hwtm.com.
Lately we have been obsessed with pink and gold birthday party decor, cakes, and everything else birthday party. 

We love how girly, luxurious, glam and pretty it is, and can go with so many themes. 

There are so many ways to incorporate pink and gold into a jewelry making birthday party.

For more pink and gold beading jewelry making party ideas, visit our pinterest page click here.



pink and gold macarons beading buds kids jewellery making party
Pink and gold macarons from bubbleandsweet.blogspot.ca.
pink dessert for your beading buds jewellery making birthday party for girls
Desserts from cakecentral.com.
pink and gold cookies for your beading buds jewellery making party
Treats from LilyBearLane.
Another way to include pink and gold in your beading birthday party decor is to include pink and gold food in the shapes of beads such as macaroons, cakepops or cookies with sprinkles that look like beads.
pink and gold party decor beading buds beading partyGold tree with pink crystals
One of the ways to use pink and gold in your jewellery making birthday party is to use it in your party decor. 

A great way to do this, is to use pink or gold beads, this helps to tie it in with the theme of beading and jewellery.  We absolutely adore this spray painted gold tree with pink crystals on it.  It adds such a magical and luxurious touch to any birthday party.

We also suggest pink and gold tissue paper flowers, garlands and balloons to complete and pink and gold party look.

Beading buds pink and gold loot bags.Pink and gold loot bags from hwtm.com.
Complete the pink and gold party look by using these colours in your loot bags. 

We  absolutely adore these beautiful loot bags.  We love how the polka dots on this tissue paper as well as the decals on the front of the bag look like beads and how they pull the whole pink and gold beading theme together.

Our princess kits are the perfect addition to any  pink and gold theme party.  The kits come packaged individually for each child with a variety of pink and white glass pearls and a stunning heart clasp starting at $6 per child.  The activity takes the girls about 30 minutes to complete is the perfect lootbag.  For more information, click here.

Happy party planning!

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5 Easy DIY Girl Birthday Party Decorations

7/30/2015

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Tissue paper flower tutorial1) Tissue paper flowers (twotwentyone).
There are hundreds of  inexpensive DIY party decorations that can make your party magical.  We have picked our top 5 DIY birthday party decorations for girls.

1)       Tissue Paper Flowers

This is our absolute favourite party decoration.  You can make them big or small, in any colour, and there are so many different variations to choose from.   See our last blog post to see how to make these stunning decorations or check out this easy tutorial from http://www.twotwentyone.net/2014/04/how-to-make-tissue-paper-pom-poms/ 

Pink gold white tissue paper garland2) Tissue paper garland (hgtv.com).
  2)       Tissue Paper Garland

We love making these in matching colours to the tissue paper flowers.  These can be made in tissue paper or sparkly paper.  The perfect complement to beading birthday parties, we have seen them in every shade of blue for spa, under the sea or little mermaid parties, or we have seen them in sparkly pinks and golds for princess parties.  Here is a detailed  tutorial http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/entertaining/make-your-own-tissue-paper-tassel-garland.

3)      Upside Down Balloons

Instead of filling up balloons with helium, use blown up balloons and hang them from the ceiling upside down.   This way you do not have to pay for helium but it gives you the same effect.  It gives you the same floating effect as balloons filled with helium without the additional price.  Check out some beautiful samples here http://www.ca.momtastic.com/life/168718-an-upside-down-take-on-a-classic-party-decoration/
upside down balloons beading birthday party4) Confetti filled balloons (babble.com).
  4)       Confetti  Filled Balloons

This is a simple update on decorating with balloons.  Fill clear balloons with confetti before blowing them up.  If you are not using helium, hang them from the ceiling (see party decor tip above).  For an simple tutorial check out http://www.babble.com/home/25-clever-ideas-for-diy-party-decor/.

Picture5) No sew tutu skirt (catch my party).
5)      No Sew Tutu Table Skirt

This no sew tutu skirt may take a little bit more work, but after the party, your daughter can keep it in her bedroom and it will dress up the whole room.  We think this would be perfect for a spa party (in blue and silver), a princess or fairy party (in purple, pink or gold) and a ballet party (in pink).  For a detailed tutorial check out http://catchmyparty.com/blog/no-sew-tulle-table-skirt-diy-tutorial.

We hope you enjoy these tutorials as much as we did!

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