Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Mother's Day Party Total Cost 59.86 with food, invitations & decorations

I thought I would host a mother's day brunch this year to get the

in-laws and my mom together and then to church afterwards.

Here are the invites that I created for the event.

Click here to download

I used an invitation kit that I bought for 100 invites and envelopes

20.00 at Michaels with a 40% OFF COUPON FOR 12.00 TOTAL

I trimmed the invite and then glued a half sheet of black card stock to

the back of the paper.

Here are the fonts that I used for the invite...

"Mother's Day" 72pt size

http://www.fontspace.com/m%C3%A5ns-greb%C3%A4ck/beaked-tyrant-personal-use

"Brunch" 72pt

http://www.fontspace.com/alphabet-and-type-typography-and-graphic/assassin

Time and date font

http://www.fontspace.com/typesetit/bilbo

Address 36pt sz

http://www.fontspace.com/m%C3%A5ns-greb%C3%A4ck/notera-personal-use-only

"Join us for ..." 36pt sz

http://www.fontspace.com/no-images/iron-league

"&" I did this with a text box so that I could put it behind the text

http://www.fontspace.com/m%C3%A5ns-greb%C3%A4ck/coneria-script-demo

"afterwards the kids..." 11pt sz

http://www.fontspace.com/fz/harrypotter7

Made sure we honored each mother by having a picture of each in a frame.

Here are copies of Subway art that I could use
to draw more focus to the occasion...

I did an easy silhouette of the kids here by taking pictures of
their profiles...

Then I printed these pics out and glued black cardstock paper to them.
I then cut out the pictures and had perfect silhouette

The color on the invitations were red black and white so that is
the colors that I purchased for the scheme of the party...

Red Circle decorations 1.49 each with a 30% off additional discount = 1.00
Black ribbon 1.00 at dollar tree
Red Ribbon 1.00 at dollar tree

I used the sihouette in the rest of the party decor...
Here is a group of tags that you can use to cut and
past on paper...

I cut these with a

Marvy - Clever Lever Craft Punch Super Jumbo Oval

To create the tags I used this cricut cartridge...

For the oval shape and the letter "M"

I used this cartridge...

Fruit

from Adli

4.00 for Grapes

2.00 for Cantelope

1.19 for Strawberries

1.49 for Pineapple

Pancakes

Gluten Free Mix from Aldi

3.00

Honey & Maple Syrup

4.00 + 4.00

Red Chocolate + White Chocolate

80 x 4 (3.20) cents per pag from Easter Clearance at Walmart

Flowers
12.00 for the 2 bouquets
from Rainbow foods that were given as gifts to each mom
Vases were 1.49 each at Good Will

The red table runner that I had was actually a dollar tree
plastic table cloth 1.00 that I folded to be a runnwe across the table.
I also bought silverware 3.00, Plates 1.00, cups 1.00 and napkin 2.00s from the
Dollar tree as well...