Country Club Themed Party

 I used vellum paper 

and using word I printed the age on the vellum to wrap the invite in.

 The colors of the party were pink and green so 

I went to Micheal's and bought blue and green ribbon.

I found white gold ties to tie into the ribbon.

 I bought a 100 pack invitation which was 20 dollars but 

I had a 40% off coupon so it was only 12.00

Using word, I found clip art of a tennis ball and 

put those on the bottom of the page making them larger and 

smaller as well as rotating them.

In the invite I used wording requesting them 

to dress up in tennis or gold attire and also 

to think of a "Country Club" name for the party.

Template for your invites...

Right Click below to Ctrl C (copy)

and then Ctrl P Past onto word doc

 Template for Banner

Template for your invites...

Right Click below to Ctrl C (copy)

and then Ctrl P Past onto word doc 

The room was a community room that was 25.00/hr

and right on a golf course.

In the back of the hall we had a table with a labtop set up

my husband is a subscriber to Zune for 14.00/month  

so he can download as many songs that he wants.

We made a great dancing mix and played the songs on speakers that we brought from

our home stereo.

The chair covers and table cloths were bought so cheap at tableclothfactory.com.

Chair covers are 2.99 ea and the long table cloths were only 10.00 each

The sashes were 1.00 each and the pink and green coverings were 2.00 each.

We also rented a smoke machine and lights

for 30.00 total for the night.  It really added to the

dancing atmosphere.

 These flowers were bought from "Trader Joes" in 5.99 bunches

I bought 6 bunches.

Using Dowels, I created flags like 

"Golf Hole Flags for each arragement for each table #.

I alos used the same green and pink ribbon to tie golf

tees around each vase.

The vases were puchased at the thrift store for .80 ea

When my guests arrived they were to

put down their "Country Club" name on it.

I used clear flatware and glasses for the 

table ware as well as the green and pink 

napkins.

I used place cards and printed the food item on each 

place card using the Edwardian script font.

Food was easy..chocolate covered strawberries
which I made myself, Cut up fruit and veggies from Aldi..
very good very cheap.
We did buy croissant sandwiches from Costco
and then to drink we had boot-aid..
A non alcoholic drink which is made from lemonade 
concentrate and ground mint leaves...very refreshing and
very country club.

Finally the cake 

Chinese New Year/Good Luck Party

orientaltrading.com provided me the parasols

the fortune cookies the hanging dragons the cute dragon pics

and the chopsticks

The produce was all purchased super cheap from Aldi.

The Dragons on the cake were cut with the cricut with edible

paper and then hand painted gold with edible paint.

We purchased our hor dourves from

Costco and kept them warm in a 3 compartment  crock pot

we purchased sprint rolls

General Sos Chicken and pot stickers.

Trader Joes also has tons of cheap hor dourves.

The invites were cut with a paper cutter 1st 5" 1/2 inch

for Red to cut them in half and then 5" and 8" for the black

I downloaded 2 different Asian fonts for free from

http://www.1001freefonts.com/asian-fonts.php

For the name and date info on the invite 

I used card stock for all 3 sheets of paper

I used the cricut cartridge "Pagota"

to cut the dragon shape and the asian doll shape.

I purchased these Shepards Hooks from Joann's.

They were 60% off and I had a coupon for them for an additional 10% off

to line the walk way.  I have seen these at the dollar tree last year but not this year. 

Sierra Mist, Apples and Frozen berries

Chocolate covered strawberries are so easy to make

2 ingredients...strawberries and chocolate

Same thing for the cookies but make sure to warn the guests

that there still are fortunes in there.

Asia's Golden Birthday Invites

There is a wonderful women who takes care of my son at LA Fitness and as an appreciation to her, I decided to make her daughter some invitations for her daughter Asia's Golden Birthday.

I found some great note cards on sale from 19.99 to 5.99 at Michael's. I used a reply card template to create the inside of the invitation. There will be 2 reply cars per template. Erase the top and use the bottom half.

You may want to use a practice sheet that is included in the kit before printing for real so you know how to properly load the printer. http//print.marthastewart/stationary/flashversion/

I used the high tower font for my invites at a 14pt font and a 20pt font for the Golden Birthday but Martha's website has many font options that you can use as well which will give you wording choices for any occasion. For the outside of the invite I did the same thing. I used a reply card template and erased the top half and only used wording on the bottom.

For the Butterflies, I purchased a Martha Stewart punch one for smaller butterflies for the inside and a larger for the outside. I cut out White butterflies and laid those on top of the gold ones to give an element of demention. I also chose to fold the smaller butterflies for the inside. I did 2 folds each along side of the body of the butterfly so both wings stand out.

I am also doing a butterfly cake to make the invites so that everything co-ordinates.