Communion Decorations

My daughter recently celebrated her First Communion. We had a small celebration at home with her grandparents and godparents. My intention was to make it like being at a restaurant, but cozier by being at home. We had the food catered in, so all I had to do was decorate. I thought I would share my ideas with you all. They were so simple, quick and low cost, but still managed to look really pretty for her. I stuck with a white, silver and pink theme throughout. I used white placemats with silver charger plates and white dishes. I found some adhesive faux diamonds at my local dollar store, so I stuck one one each charger plate near the top, one on each napkin, made diamond crosses on the wine glasses and after tying the cutlery with pink ribbon, attached small diamonds on each bow. It looked really elegant. The favor boxes were simply filled with strawberry-topped cupcakes. A really nice way to jazz up something so simple. Everything purchased was from the dollar store-the white adhesive bows, the sticky diamonds, the pink ribbon and napkins, the plastic silver trays in the center of the table, and everything used for the favor boxes (pop-up favor boxes, silver candy wraps, strands of pearls, large sticky faux diamonds and the white was the parchment paper wrapping the cupcake). The pink lilies topped it all off and smelled great! Total cost, including the flowers: $41, since the charger plates were $20. The last photo is the cake my sister made for her. She has had no cake training whatsover. Amazing!

Adelle's Boarding Pass to Panama

Adelle wanted the look of Candice's boarding pass, but with some sand color added. By slightly changing up the design to make it her own, we came up with this beautiful contrast resembling sand and water to inspire her guests to attend her destination wedding to Panama.

Melissa's Passport to Mexico

Melissa wanted a soft grey cover with pale blush pages throughout and lots of swirly elegant accents. I made the cover to look like leather to add an extra touch of elegance to it, which worked beautifully to compliment the lightly colored pages.

Robyn's Passport to Puerto Vallarta

Robyn used her own cover art for her passport which turned out great with the crisp white cover and old inner pages. She also used a resort map on the back page which is a great idea for getting aroung. The reply card wasn't needed so she used it to add additonal transportation information. The front was given a postcard look with a photo of Puerto Vallarta.

Heather's Passport to Jamaica

Here are 2 different styles of Heather's passport. Little changes, but a whole lot of difference. You can see how colorful images and a contrasting cover color really make the passport pop. Below are several different styles of the passport cover. Again, very few changes, but a whole lot of difference. It just goes to show you how one color or one piece of art can change the entire design.

NEW Graduation Party Sets

2011 Graduation sets are now available in my shop. They include everything you need for a themed party, including: water bottle labels, candy bar wrappers, cupcake picks, cupcake wraps, invitations/announcements, napkin wraps and favor tags. Thanks you cards available upon request.

www.custompartyplace.com/Graduation

Magazine Cover Birthday Invitations

I designed these magazine covers for Paolo's 13th Birthday Bash. Big year-big news! At that age, who wouldn't think it was totally cool to be on the cover of a magazine?!