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!

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