Down to the wire!

Do you need some last minute ideas for what to serve to your guests at your Halloween Party?  This article is from 2010, but I LOVE the recipe ideas:

10 Last-Minute Halloween Party Ideas

 

Also, some tent cards labeling the treats is always a fun and attractive addition to your buffet.  You don't want your guests to miss out on some of the clever titles on Halloween recipes!  I have some printable tent cards in my Etsy shop right now which are customizeable to whatever item names you want, up to 12 items!  Please order ASAP so that I can email them out to you in time for your party!

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/113110349/custom-printable-menu-tent-cards-diy

Halloween Party Ideas

Halloween is almost upon us! I've been seeing a lot of cool ideas for Halloween party recipes on the internet lately, and I'd like to share a few of them with you. The first one has a certain WOW factor going for it. Your guests will most certainly be impressed by these Glowing Eyeball Jelly Shots!! (I would be anyway)

 

Recipe and directions are here on "Rock UR Party", a division of Tablespoon, which is one of my favorite food/recipe sites: Glowing Eyeball Jelly Shot Recipe
 
Apparently, they glow under blacklight due to the use of tonic water. Who knew?
 
Here is another take on glow in the dark party food: Glow In The Dark Cupcakes.  These look like they are a little more difficult to make, but what fun!
 

 

 

And here is one more recipe, which is slightly less difficult: Halloween Chex® Mix.  Forgive me, dear reader, but I have always loved Chex® Mix. I don't care how pedestrian that makes me sound, I LOVE IT.  I also love candy corn, so create a sweet Chex® Mix, then throw in some candy corn?  You can count me in!  I also like how it uses those little Halloween candy decors.  I have a jar of little pumpkin and bat decors that I haven't figured out what to do with yet (but they were too cute not to buy), so I think I'll be using them for this!

 

 

Anyway, here is the recipe: http://www.tablespoon.com/recipes/halloween-chex-mix/1/

 

And finally, this is not a recipe, but on King Arthur Flour, I found these awesome beaker cookie cutters. 

 

 

 

You could get really creative with these, I'm sure!

 

And just to keep you updated, there are several Halloween invitations and cupcake toppers in my Pixels and Posies Etsy shop right now.  Please feel free to take a look around!

Wonderland Tea Party Invitation

A friend of mine attended a Wonderland tea party themed bridal shower a few weeks ago. They served tea in china tea cups and the guests kept the cups as parting gifts. What a great idea! It sounded like so much fun, I was inspired to make my own Wonderland tea party themed invite. And here it is!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/101803204/custom-printable-party-invitation-print

 I also made some matching custom cupcake toppers to go with it:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/101813857/custom-cupcake-toppers-print-your-own

And non-custom cupcake toppers

https://www.etsy.com/listing/101812428/tea-party-cupcake-toppers-print-your-own

Not into cupcakes?  Well, apparently, "Mad Hatter cakes", also called topsy-turvy cakes, are very popular right now, and would be a great addition to your Wonderland tea party.

These whimsical, gravity defying cakes are not only delicious, but also bring creativity and fun to your party!  They're perfect for weddings and bridal showers, but also for birthdays and other celebrations.

And this one would go great with our Hippie Chick themed party invitations!

All this talk about cake and cupcakes makes me want some cake!  I better stop typing and go work on something else.  Happy Sunday everyone!

Welcome to Candy Cane Lane!

So, my boss challenged us this year to come up with some new holiday decor for the office.  The kicker was that we had NO budget.  So we decided on a theme - initially it was "Candyland", but then we settled on "Candy Cane Lane".  We gave all the corridors created in the cube farm candy themed street names, and decided on some directional arrows that we wanted to do.  Then I created them at home.  I have them printed out and we will be decorating on Monday.  I'll take some pics!

In the meantime, I created a listing on Etsy so that you can decorate your office, home or event with these signs too!  I think they're super cute, if I do say so myself.  Additionally, if you want different street names, directional arrows or welcome sign, I can customize it!  Just convo me on Etsy (or email me at pixelsandposies@gmail.com) and I'll create a special listing for you!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87750686/candy-cane-lane-diy-printable-pdf

PS: the "Elf Workshop" arrow will be pointing in our direction!

New Christmas Items - Holiday Designs for Tile Coasters

In my last post, I wrote about the tile coaster project for the holiday and damask papers I have for sale in my Etsy shop.  I can't begin to tell you how cool I think this project is.  A lot of craft projects come out looking like just that - craft projects.  The end result of this one is fantastic, and it's sooooo easy and economical.

Anyway, yesterday, I created some holiday designs specifically for tile coasters.  Without further ado, here are the listings:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87143413/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87143886/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday-holly

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87144391/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87145041/printable-pdf-of-christmas-holiday

Why, hello there

Happy after Thanksgiving everyone!  Did anyone go shopping on Black Friday?

It's been forever since I've posted anything and for that, I apologize.  I got a part time job at a Halloween store, so was working my 40 hour day job, plus about 20 hours a week at the Halloween store, and *somehow* didn't have much free time!  The last couple of weeks have been spent alternately vegetating and preparing for the holidays.

I took this week off from work, and wouldn't you know it... I caught a cold.  Which is weird because I have been mostly at home this week, and the whole time I was working in the Halloween store, riding the light rail to my day job and mingling with customers at my night job, I didn't catch anything.  And yet the one week when I am sequestered at home, I get sick.  Life is funny.  But I guess it's good that I have this week off to be sick in because nothing is worse than having to work when you're sick.  Um... actually, a  lot of things are worse.  But I digress.

ANYWAY, I do have some Christmas items in my shop, mostly gift tags and Christmas cards.

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82077600/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82078619/printable-christmas-gift-tags-winter?ref=v1_other_1

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83984709/printable-christmas-gift-tags-square

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82052136/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83915172/printable-christmas-gift-tags

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83983550/printable-christmas-gift-tags-square

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82055851/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/82075593/printable-christmas-gift-tags-with?ref=v1_other_1

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83985680/printable-christmas-gift-tags-with

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87113409/custom-printable-christmas-card

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83988016/printable-christmas-gift-tags-blue-and

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83986375/printable-christmas-gift-tags-square

And I just recently posted some printable decorative papers, which can be used for scrapbooking or cardmaking, or whatever other project that you can think of that uses decorative papers.  Included are instructions on how to make pretty tile coasters with decorative paper and tiles from a home improvement store.  This project is really cheap and easy to make.  I bought some tiles at Home Depo for something like 15 cents each.  You use modge podge (or diluted craft glue) and an acrylic sealer.  This is the finished product:

Pretty nice, right?  A stack of four tied in a ribbon or some raffia or twine makes a beautiful yet economical Christmas gift.  A shout out to Jordan who told me how to make these.

Anyway, here's the listings for the papers:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86991055/printable-pdf-of-damask-paper-and

http://www.etsy.com/listing/87004852/printable-pdf-of-holiday-paper-pack-with

I also have a listing for custom monogrammed paper to make monogrammed tiles:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/86993494/custom-printable-pdf-of-damask-paper?ref=v1_other_2

Now let the Christmas season begin!

New Festive Parties!

I know, it's been forever since I've posted anything.  Sorry!  Since my last post, I have made three Halloween parties and a Fall/Thanksgiving invitation & tent cards.  Here's the first Halloween party that I created:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80141605/printable-party-package-halloween-party

For that one, I used a lot of vintage images, mostly from The Graphics Fairy Blogspot.

For the invitation, I used a Victorian House from The Graphics Fairy:

Took it into Photoshop, isolated it, darkened it, and added some glowing windows:

Then I took some trees and put them behind the house.

I also took a Halloween type design (also from Graphics Fairy) 

and redrew it as a repeating pattern in Adobe Illustrator to create a border for the invitation.

And voila!  Here is the invitation:

I also used some other patterns from Graphics Fairy

And redrew them in Illustrator to create some backgrounds and borders for the papers, tent cards, cupcake toppers, etc.

(I added the spiders :o)

I hope you like them!

I'll be posting about how I created my other parties in the next few days, so check back!

http://www.etsy.com/listing/80141605/printable-party-package-halloween-party