Hello friends! I have a few more images to show you from Brady's superhero birthday party this past weekend, but first I want to show you two things that didn't happen in time for the party.
As I mentioned, both my boys ended up sick all last week, so needless to say, there were a few projects I wasn't able to get to. I think they are pretty fun ideas, though, and you may find them handy if you are planning your own superhero-themed party, so I still want to share them.
In addition to the custom superhero capes and masks {scroll down for previous posting on this}, I wanted to send the kids home with something fun and edible.
There is a place not too far my home called Le Popcorn. It's a beautiful little candy and popcorn shop, and their specialty is flavored/colored popcorn. They sell bags of custom popcorn orders in all sizes, and they even sell mini sizes that can be used as party favors and gifts.
I actually purchased some of my own clear treat bags at the craft store, and I intended to buy a larger bag of colored popcorn, either in the "wild blueberry" or "strawberry" flavor, and break the popcorn up into smaller portions --about 3 or 4 cups to each bag -- to fit in my little treat bags.
I was then going to design my own comic book-style labels in Photoshop to say "thanks for POPPING by!", make a small hole punch through one of the corners, and attach the labels to the bags/tie up the treats with curling ribbon used for gift-wrap.
I was then going to design my own comic book-style labels in Photoshop to say "thanks for POPPING by!", make a small hole punch through one of the corners, and attach the labels to the bags/tie up the treats with curling ribbon used for gift-wrap.
Well, I never made it over to the popcorn shop to begin with, nor did I have time to design my labels until this morning for show-and-tell purposes.
The good news for you {if you happen to be needing superhero or comic-book style party favors} is that I went ahead and created a PDF with six of these labels on a page for you to print and use yourself, free of charge. My only request is that if you do pull the image above off my blog to use, or use the PDF I email you, please give Life Abundant a mention and/or display my blog's button if you post anything about your personal use of the tags on your own site.
If you'd like the PDF, simply click the "email me" button on the right column of my bloggy here {make sure to include your return email address within your message} and I'll be happy to send you the file.
The next project I didn't get to was a centerpiece for the kid's table. This was less for lack of time, and more because I was planning to assemble the centerpieces on-site at our party location, and by the time I got there I decided last minute I just didn't want to mess with these. No idea what that was about, it is so out of character but Oh shwell! Anyway, this is what I was planning...
Pretty simple centerpiece! I'd planned for three of these, POW! BANG! KABOOM!
The round glass vases I already had, purchased a while back from Michael's {but I'm sure they still carry them}. I simply used four sheets of blue tissue paper to stuff the vase {one sheet is folded and wrapped around the inside of the container}, then wrapped it with silver star garland.
The yellow paper I purchased from Michael's... it's heavy-weight scrapbook paper, and it's actually textured with tiny little raised polka dots on it. I used a red paint pen to write on the shape that I freehanded and cut out.
Easy easy!
Ok, so enough with virtual party planning and on to the real stuff. I've already shown you our cupcake tower with comic-book blurb toppers, the skyline cake backdrop, and the custom capes with masks we sent home as party favors.
All that's left is to show you our set table and the cookies I had a friend make {love the florescent lighting in our party room! Casts such an attractive glow on everything...ha!}
I used an inexpensive roll of red gift wrap to cover the table, and silver-foiled cake boards I found for $0.99 each at Party City as chargers. I layered those with a yellow paper plate {for pizza and cupcakes} and a blue and white polka dot napkin. On top of that I placed cookies that my friend Megan made. She referenced the superhero illustration from our invitation to decorate round sugar cookies with icing.
I love decorating sugar cookies and really wanted to make these myself, but I'm so glad with the way our week turned out that I had delegated these to Megan's capable hands! Her cookies are both cute and delicious! If you live in the Ft. Worth area and need cookies made for an event, check out Megan's website.
I would have loved to embellish the little bagged cookies with ribbon, and also would have liked to wrap the bottles of water and juice boxes that we set at each kid's place setting {after this photo was snapped} in custom labels, but yes, in the week's craziness those projects fell by the wayside, too, so try to imagine how cute this table COULD have been! {wink!}
We did end up with a dozen balloons in primary colors with big silver star weights on them line the center of the table, but somehow missed photographing that. The kids' table was certainly not perfect given our circumstances, but still pretty cute and Brady...who got well-enough just in time for party day... was sooo excited about the way it all turned out.
Megan made us some of these superhero logo cookies with a sparkly "B" for Brady on them, too, so we scattered those around the other table for the grown-ups to enjoy...
So that's it! Scroll down to view previous posts with the rest of our superhero party details!
I'll be back later in the week for one more post on superhero parties to show you some of the best of what I've found on the web!
Hope you're having a SUPER Monday, friend!
The next project I didn't get to was a centerpiece for the kid's table. This was less for lack of time, and more because I was planning to assemble the centerpieces on-site at our party location, and by the time I got there I decided last minute I just didn't want to mess with these. No idea what that was about, it is so out of character but Oh shwell! Anyway, this is what I was planning...
Pretty simple centerpiece! I'd planned for three of these, POW! BANG! KABOOM!
The round glass vases I already had, purchased a while back from Michael's {but I'm sure they still carry them}. I simply used four sheets of blue tissue paper to stuff the vase {one sheet is folded and wrapped around the inside of the container}, then wrapped it with silver star garland.
The yellow paper I purchased from Michael's... it's heavy-weight scrapbook paper, and it's actually textured with tiny little raised polka dots on it. I used a red paint pen to write on the shape that I freehanded and cut out.
Easy easy!
Ok, so enough with virtual party planning and on to the real stuff. I've already shown you our cupcake tower with comic-book blurb toppers, the skyline cake backdrop, and the custom capes with masks we sent home as party favors.
All that's left is to show you our set table and the cookies I had a friend make {love the florescent lighting in our party room! Casts such an attractive glow on everything...ha!}
I used an inexpensive roll of red gift wrap to cover the table, and silver-foiled cake boards I found for $0.99 each at Party City as chargers. I layered those with a yellow paper plate {for pizza and cupcakes} and a blue and white polka dot napkin. On top of that I placed cookies that my friend Megan made. She referenced the superhero illustration from our invitation to decorate round sugar cookies with icing.
I love decorating sugar cookies and really wanted to make these myself, but I'm so glad with the way our week turned out that I had delegated these to Megan's capable hands! Her cookies are both cute and delicious! If you live in the Ft. Worth area and need cookies made for an event, check out Megan's website.
I would have loved to embellish the little bagged cookies with ribbon, and also would have liked to wrap the bottles of water and juice boxes that we set at each kid's place setting {after this photo was snapped} in custom labels, but yes, in the week's craziness those projects fell by the wayside, too, so try to imagine how cute this table COULD have been! {wink!}
We did end up with a dozen balloons in primary colors with big silver star weights on them line the center of the table, but somehow missed photographing that. The kids' table was certainly not perfect given our circumstances, but still pretty cute and Brady...who got well-enough just in time for party day... was sooo excited about the way it all turned out.
Megan made us some of these superhero logo cookies with a sparkly "B" for Brady on them, too, so we scattered those around the other table for the grown-ups to enjoy...
So that's it! Scroll down to view previous posts with the rest of our superhero party details!
I'll be back later in the week for one more post on superhero parties to show you some of the best of what I've found on the web!
Hope you're having a SUPER Monday, friend!
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