My client asked me to create a gorgeous First Birthday for her daughter Layla but couldn’t decide a theme.  She didn’t want anything too girly and pastel nor any of the more popular themes such as  Princess or Unicorn.  I was inspired by an image I saw on Instagram of some bright colourful pom poms and decided that since it was Winter, what better way to brighten up a dreary day but with some adorable pom poms! 

A colour scheme of magenta, orange, purple, turquoise, light pink and gold was chosen.  I began by creating a woollen hanging backdrop and hung it behind pompom embellished sign with gold acrylic custom made ‘one’ overlay.  A series of tissue paper honeycombs in the theme colours above the backdrop further emphasised the pompom theme.  Other pompom inspired decorations included a pompom embellished “Layla’ and “1”, party hats, pompom ‘flowers’, a pompom photo frame with a photo of beautiful Layla and bundles of pom poms on the table.  

The pompom theme was further emphasised with the food. There was pompom cake pops, chocolate ‘lollypops’, jelly cups topped with pink chocolate pompoms and mini layer cakes with pompom toppers and iced ‘Lalya’ cookies decorated with gold leaf.  The centrepiece was a stunning raspberry mousse cake created by Burch & Purchese which I displayed on an acrylic stand filled with mini balloons and pom poms.

On the day the children were entertained by Fairy Freckles and Friends. They performed a magic show, played games and danced and created super balloon creations for each child.  

Vendor Credits

Cake by Burch & Purchese Sweet Studio 

Fruit and Vegetable Platters – Raw, Glenferrie Rd Malvern

Partyware – Astoria Paper Products

Honeycomb Garland – Kmart

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So we get to celebrate twice! Easter number one is generally filled with quick getaways, chocolate, bunnies and parades. Easter number two is all about family, traditions, church, lamb, red dyed eggs and more!

We were inspired by the styling of this beautiful Greek Island wedding featured on 100 Layer Cake to create this blue, red, purple and white Easter celebration and we included lots of DIY’s incorporating a pattern we designed. Keep reading to find out more!

The use of palms is reminiscent of Palm Sunday, a very important day in the Easter Calendar. They are also very suitable to our (still) warm Autumn weather!

The flowers are purple, red and white, to reflect the symbolic tomb of Jesus that is decorated in churches during the season.

We printed out a pattern that we designed into paper, cut them according to a template and stuck them down onto cups and forks to create matching tableware. See the DIY further down.

For the backdrop, we decided to try something we’ve been seeing around Instagram lately. With some flowers and washing tape, you can get an instant backdrop in seconds!

We wanted to customise some muslin bags. We were inspired by the bag DIY from Adele in our Easter Mini Mag. I actually realised that you work wonders with a muslin bag. You can customize them with foam, studs, Pom poms, pen and more! I love to embellish them with stamps and tassels. When I run out of my supplies for my Silhouette Mint (a custom stamp maker) and I want to stamp some fabric, I resort to a method I have called ‘stencil stamping’. This consists of creating a stencil, glueing the stencil to the fabric and stamping with the ink pad until you have ‘coloured’ inthe exposes area. This time, it didn’t work. Why? Because my stencil was tiny, and the ink stamp was very full, meaning colour kept seeping under the stencil. So I resorted to plain old regular stamping and filled in the blanks with red pen.

I also wanted to make a tassel. But it was 10pm the night before we wanted to shoot this, and (shock, horror) both Kmart and Officeworks failed to deliver ( I wanted some nice thin yarn, the type you use for embroidery, in royal blue). Kmart had some tassels on special for 70c so I nabbed them!

Anyway, I hope you like our little celebration!

By Maria Andriopoulos, Confetti Fair Contributor & creator of Handmade Party blog. 

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