The Passion Wedding Invitation Collection has always been one of our favourites here at I Will Invitations.  This is a picture of one of our latest orders – pictured here in a mint green colour on metallic paper.

These beautiful invitations feature a Matroyshka doll that folds out revealing all the other nesting dolls underneath.

And as usual, if this colour palette doesn’t suit, we are more than happy to make alterations.  The details are as follows:

The Merry Matroyshka invitation is a double sided A6 sized invitation with fold out doll embellishments, all hand-drawn by I Will Invitations.

Each invitation is printed in sturdy cardstock and comes with a matching envelope and us personalising all the text for you.

Also available are our Merry Matroyshka Printable Invitations with petite accessories and deluxe accessories.

We also have the following products printed and available for ordering: chocolate wrappers, cupcake wrappers, cupcake toppers, bunting, buffet labels, loot bags, stickers, drink bottle labels, party hats, temporary tattoos, welcome posters, placemats and backdrops.

Circus Spectacular Birthday Party Invitation

The Circus Spectacular invitation is a double sided A6 sized invitation with rhinestone embellishments and every circus carnival character you can think of – from acrobatic seals, unicycle riding monkeys and fire-jumping lions to ringmasters, clowns, ladies on bareback horses and a strong man.  All hand-drawn in that signature I Will Invitations style.

Each invitation is printed in sturdy cardstock and comes with a matching envelope.  We personalise the text to suit and our clients receive proofs to critique before we go to print.

Also available are our Circus Spectacular Printable Invitations with petite accessories and deluxe accessories.

We also have the following products printed and available for ordering: chocolate wrappers, cupcake wrappers, cupcake toppers, bunting, buffet labels, loot bags, stickers, drink bottle labels, party hats, temporary tattoos, welcome posters, placemats and backdrops.

Our Rockstar Chic invitations are the perfect prelude to a rock star party!

It’s fantastic to be open and accepting orders again after our relocation, so happy to be back doing what we love!

In the break we weren’t idle either, we have a few new collections we have completed that we will introduce to you over the coming weeks, and so without further ado here is our first: Rockstar Chic!

The perfect invitation for a rockstar party, available as pictured in the girl design and coming soon we will add a similar invitation for the guys.  As usual, we can change the colours if you aren’t into pink and soon there will also be not only our pre-printed range, but a matching set of printables, so however you like to buy your party gear, we will have it covered!

Rock parties are fantastic fun, lots of attitude and lots of great music, definitely worth keeping in mind for your next event and as extra help, you can see lots of ideas on our pinterest page here: rockstar parties.

So rock on!

And this is the second recipe in the series of teddy bear picnic party food.  In case you missed it, we covered Ants on A Log here.

This recipe is really easy.  All you need will be:

Mint Patties

White chocolate button melts

White chocolate buds

All of these products are made by Nestle and can be found in the confectionery and cooking aisles of your supermarket.

Simply unwrap the Mint Patties, use a little of the white chocolate melted down to adhere the white chocolate to them as shown in the picture.  They are super-easy and super-quick to make and absolutely perfect for your next Teddy Bear Picnic Party!

And if you didn’t already know, I Will Invitations makes the cutest Teddy Bear Picnic printables and party products!  Happy picnicking!

The guests came in and participated in a jewellery making activity.  Each child could choose their own beads to make a bracelet and the last piece threaded on was a beautiful little corked vial (reminiscent of cute messages in a bottle) from ‘These Tiny Treasures’ that was filled with mermaid dust.  The children were told that when they next had a bath to try dropping a few pinches of the glitter into the water and they might just turn into mermaids!

Lunch was a seaside favourite: fish and chips.

Next each child was given a mermaid cardboard cutout with a glittery foam tail to decorate. Another activity held during this time was pass the parcel, with lots of bubble type prizes.

Finally we had the unveiling of the dessert table.  The centrepiece was a two-tiered chocolate mud cake decorated in light blue fondant with handmade white chocolate shells.

I made the Tim-Tam fish cake pops and blue jelly jars (with small white lolly fish inside).  The clam cookies were simply pink frosting and round mints inside 2 macadamia nut cookies.

Sherbet bottles that looked like message in a bottles sat next to Guerlain chocolates and handmade pink glitter seahorses on sticks.

I painted up craft boxes to look like sunken treasure and filled them with candy necklaces, chocolate coins and ring pops.

I purchased Styrofoam balls and cut them in half, attaching on pink marshmallows with toothpicks to make sea anemones.

Rock candy stacked on top of each other created coral like formations and to further the coral theme, I purchased marshmallow twists and used bright pink coloured plastic flowers to drape down the backdrop.

Lanterns hung down from the ceiling and lengths of crepe paper hung off them to look like jellyfish.  We also used hula hoops to drape crepe paper off to make seaweed lengths.

Finally we had a bubble machine to complete the look.

Vendor credits:

Invitation, backdrop, stationery accessories / printables and table: I Will Invitations.  Printables available here: mermaid printables and you can buy them already made up here: mermaid birthday party invitations and products

Lanterns: Saffy and May (www.facebook.com/saffyandmay)

Mermaid Cookie Pops: Sugar Pearl Cookies

Lollies: Sweet Style (www.sweetstyle.com.au), The Little Big Company (www.tlbc.com.au), Candy Kingdom (www.candykingdom.com.au), The Biggest Lollie Shop In The World (www.thebiggestlollieshopintheworld.com.au)

Lantern decorations: Saffy and Mae (www.facebook.com/saffyandmay)

Mermaid Dust Vials: These Tiny Treasures (www.etsy.com/shop/thesetinytreasures)

Ants on a log recipe is really simple but oh so cute for a Teddy Bear Picnic or even an insect party.

We created these for a photoshoot which you can see here: Teddy Bear Picnic.

The method is really easy.  I love really easy.  This recipe is going to take you all of 20 minutes.  Tops… promise!

Choose a fun size pack of your favourite chocolate bar – Snickers, Mars Bars, Milky Ways are all terrific so the choice is yours.  Picnic bars would look like even more authentic logs too.  And after saying that last sentence, I’m sure you’ve worked out that these will be the base, or the ‘logs’.

Next cut up some lengths of licorice to the size of ant legs and count out 3 chocolate sultantas / peanuts to each log.

Melt some milk chocolate and use as a glue to adhere the sultanas / peanuts and ant legs to the log base.

Voila!

Told you it was easy!

It was the end of the Australian summer and so Imogen and all her friends decided to get together for a special playdate with their favourite teddies.  They followed the signs through the fields and forest and finally found a magical table filled with things that all Teddy Bears like best to eat.

After their tummies (and teddies) stopped grumbling, they sat down on the picnic rugs to enjoy the last rays of the sun before heading home to dream up their next big adventure!

This party we styled using our Teddy Bear Picnic Printables / Teddy Bear Invitation range available from our store.

We promise to post again soon and let you know how we made some of our party food, but until then, enjoy the photos!

Our ‘Circus Spectacular’ range was born (which is also available in printable format too).  Haylie also used the services of the talented The Party Table who were generous enough to allow us the use of their photos (thank you!).  If you live around the Kingaroy area, it’s well worth checking out their services. Their website is here: The Party Table.

So without further ado, roll up and have a look at the gorgeous job done on Mason’s Circus Party!

So what exactly does our invitation look like?  Here it is:

And the best thing is, that we have also got a HUGE pinterest board full of fantastic circus ideas to help you create the perfect circus party alongside our products.  Check it out here: circus pinterest board.

Here are some of the great ideas on there:

a. Fantastic circus party: http://karaspartyideas.com/2009/07/big-top-circus-party.html

b. Gorgeous circus cookies:http://www.flickr.com/photos/beeskneescreative/5490813650/in/photostream

c. Cute ferris wheel cupcake holder $39.95. Available here: http://www.ameliesroom.com.au/sparkle-t-cupcake-ferris-wheel

d. love, love, love this circus party:http://sweetsindeed.com/blog/2011/06/07/plush-circus-party-station/

e. Learn how to make your own carousel cake here: http://thepartiologist.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/carousel-cake.html

f. Such a detailed circus cake: http://karaspartyideas.com/2012/08/circus-carnival-extravaganza-birthday-party.html

g. Cute circus cookies: http://catchmyparty.com/photos/761898

h. Buy your own circus big top cupcake tower for $16.49: http://www.partykitnkaboodle.com.au/big-top-cupcake-holder-1685.html