Birthday party ideas part 2, Cupcake theme

For K's 3rd Birthday party we did a cupcake theme.

The invitations were a simple photo of cupcakes with a wee pink bow at the top, a little white rectangle with "Kirsten's 3rd Birthday" written  on it in silver and a little diamonte . All of the details were written on the back. don't have a pic of the finished thing but I used this pic

I made a flag banner, just out of coloured sugar paper cut into flags. My SIL Fiona helped me by making the cute cupcake embellishments.

I made the party bags with the help of my Mother in law. I had to use her sewing machine because I didn't own one yet and this was the first sewing project I ever took on. The gingham material was a nightmare! so it ended up only being a little part of the bags instead of the main part. This worked loads better! They were wonky and very obviously handmade but I am still super proud of them!

My awesome MIL cross stitched little name tags too

Inside the bags I put a little notebook, crayons again (I know not too original but the kids were mostly different from the year before) , a knitted cupcake , knitted by my Mother in law (isn't she clever and really sweet!)  and of course an individual cupcake.

I wanted to make a huge cupcake as her main cake. I saw an awesome cake pan made by Wilton, but couldn't afford to spend the amount they were asking for something I would likely only use once. MIL came to the rescue again when she found some HUGE cake cases.
So the final product was a ginormous "cupcake" with strawberry butter icing and marshmallows on top,
surrounded by little muffin sized cupcakes with plain butter icing and mini marshmallows on top.

I am glad I didn't buy the cake pan in the end, her cakes ended up more original :)


For the cups, plates and napkins I bought plain ones in pastel shades.

I even found some cupcake wrapping paper.

I made some plain flags to hang at the other end of the room and some pink balloons and streamers was all that was needed to finish off this girly day.

I made the poor girl wear the same party dress as the year before, we just loved it so much and it still fitted so we thought why not?! ;)

here she is blowing out her candles, her first day ever of no nap! She was just done, bless her she went and got her pillow and snuggled in on her new trampoline.

So there is my homemade cupcake party.

Typical, this year cupcakes are EVERYWHERE!

And what does she want??

A pink and pussycat party LOL Should be fun :)