This very pretty hand-painted castle cake would make a lovely centerpiece at a princess party. Via Neviepiecakes.

First Place Winner

With 66 votes, Emmi wins the First Prize, a $50.00 gift certificate from Kate Landers Events!

Second Place Winner

With 47 votes, Camdyn Belle wins the Second Prize, a $35 gift certificate from Posh Pixels Design Studio. 

 Third Place Winner

With 46 votes, the twins Chloe Mae and Sophie June win a costume of their choice (or mom’s choice), from Dress Up and Play Parties.

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated. Many thanks to the kind sponsors Kate Landers Events, Posh Pixles Design Studio and Dress Up & Play Parties! Keep a look out for the Adorable Birthday Boy Contest coming soon!!  

These are the lovely contestants for the Adorable Birthday Girl Contest. I couldn’t possible pick the winners myself, and I’m elated that I have my readers to help me choose! I’m sorry if your entry didn’t make it into the contest. If you don’t see a picture you submitted, it’s simply because you did not submit the correct information, eg, the child’s name, and I really did not have time to email back to verify this information, but there’s always next time

You Can Help Choose The Winners By:

• voting for your favorite contestant from the pictures above
• vote by simply leaving the name of your favorite contestant in the comments section of this post
• each person is allowed one vote. Please do not vote more than once!
• Voting will be open until Tuesday 15th June

Once voting is closed, we will tally the votes and announce the winners on Wednesday. The Adorable Birthday Boy Contest will follow.

I absolutely love this favor idea from Chelsea Fuss. Simple, budget friendly, and so so sweet. These would make gorgeous favors at a girly party or baby shower.

To make them you’ll need: Chocolate candies in gold wrapping, unbleached parchment paper, rayon trimming ribbon (available here: http://www.custompaper.com/Shop/Ribbon/midori_rayon_trimming.html ), and double stick tape.

Then simply:

1. Wrap the candies in parchment paper and secure with double stick tape.
2. Wrap with rayon trimming ribbon.
3. Line them up to display or place one on each napkin.

According to Chelsea, these will cost 10c each to make!

by Chelsea Fuss via Project Wedding.

Rebecca from Fresh Chick Design Studio sent in pictures from her son’s Yo Gabba Gabba birthday bash, which I’ve been meaning to share. I love how she incorporated her own style into the theme, and moved away from the ‘cheaper by the dozen’ commercial party goods you’d expect to see with such a theme.

Love the custom fondant cupcake toppers from Two Sugar Babies. Totally adorable! Great job Rebecca, and more proof that character parties can be unique and stylish with a little extra thought and effort. Love it!

I had loads of fun hosting this year’s Most Adorable Kids Party Contest, so I decided it’s time for another fun contest! This week we’re hosting an Adorable Birthday Girl Contest, because I know that you put as much effort into dressing up the party girl, as you put into creating adorable parties. So here’s your chance to show off those cute pictures of your adorable birthday princesses! As usual we have 3 fabulous prizes to be won, but this time you will be the judges! Readers will be allowed to vote for their favorites, and winners will be chosen based on the total number of votes. The fabulous prizes include:

The first prize winner will be treated to a shoping spree at Kate Landers Events Shoppe with a $50 gift certificate to spend on Kate’s beautiful,classic children’s party goods, outfits and more. 

The second prize winner will be treated to a $35 value shopping spree at Posh Pixles Design Studio; full of fabulous party goods to chose from.

 The third prize winner will have a blast, choosing a favorite costume from Dress Up & Play Parties.

To Enter

• Simply send an email entitled “Adorable Birthday Girl Contest“,  to creativehostess at googlemail.com, with a picture of the birthday girl attached. Please ensure that you include the child’s name and age.

Rules

•  All pictures must be received by Thursday June 10th 2010, any entries received after Thursday will not be considered. 
• Once we’ve received all the entries, we will create a collage of all the pictures.
• Once the collage is posted on Friday 11th June, voting will be opened, and readers will be invited to vote for their favorite. 
• Readers can only vote once.
• Voting will continue until Tuesday 15th June.
• The votes will be counted, and the 3 contestants with the highest number of votes, will be chosen as winners.
• Winners will be announced on Wednesday 16th June.

Good Luck, and be sure to look out for the Adorable Birthday Boy Contest which will follow immediately after!

 Images in first collage via: Dreamspun Kids 

Here’s an enchanting toadstool house cake, perfect for a little girl’s fairy party, via ShamsD.

Yellow is such a summery colour that evokes feelings of warmth and sunshine, and these images just make me so happy and sunny inside! I think this is great inspiration for a sophisticated summery girlfriend brunch, or outdoor baby shower. I especially love the chair covers from Wildflower Linen.  

A yellow and grey candy buffet like this one would be a gorgeous addition, and I love the idea of filling pretty paper cones with candy. There are a few Etsy shops where you can buy pre-made cones, but they are also really easy to make, and you’ll have fun choosing the perfect papers to create your cones.  Here’s a quick tutorial.

Images: {chaircovers, flowers, outdoor table setting, girl with flowers, candy buffet}

My daughter is turning 3 in September, and after falling out of the pirate and super hero phases, she has finally decided that she wants a butterfly party! I love butterlies too, so I’m quickly grabbing on to this one before she changes her mind to…I don’t know, a monster party? So I’ve been playing with ideas, and came up with this inspiration board while trying to plan a butterfly party in my head. Any thoughts?

Images via:{ Martha Stewart , Santa Barbara Chic , Style Me Pretty, Gilly Flower, Mary Had A Little Party, HWTM, Hostess Blog, Creative Hostess, Adrianne Bobafede, Favor Ideas     }

Kate Landers Events is relatively new, and in the short time they’ve been around, Kate has styled some pretty fabulous kids’ parties. Her latest Woodland Fairy Party is no exception, and it’s obvious that Kate left out no detail, and went all out, to create the most magical fairy woodland. The dessert table is absolutely STUNNING!  ”Designed to mimic the enchanted forest floor, the table was covered with a green moss table runner, food was displayed on wooden “stumps” and personalized with wooden letters for the birthday girl, Elle. I’m seriously in love with the backdrop of grass, twig and flower bundles, and the gorgeous butterflies. The fairy treats were served in chocolate ’bird’s nest’ bowls, and included:  ”Fairy Flakes”(coconut), “Chipmunk Chips” (banana), “Gnome-Made Granola”, “Wrinkled Grapes”, “Chocolate Drops, pink “acorns” and “pink feather dust (cotton candy)”, and  ”ladybugs” were crafted carefully out of apples and chocolate frosting. Guests also enjoyed “Snail Sandwiches” (created of strawberry cream cheese and jelly) and “Woodland Smores” (pre-melted smores served on a wooden “stump”). Guests were also invited to decorate thir own toadstool cupcakes.

The invitations were custom designed by Paper & Pigtails.

The guests sat on custom designed toad stools, at a table with toadstool centerpieces. Each place was set with a Fairy garland, revealing a tag with each guests name, laid on their plate. A wreath with double faced pink satin ribbon hung over the table, and each little guest received a custom designed fairy frock, hair garland and wand.

Activities included decorating fairy houses, magical toad stool and Fairy May Poles. Guests went home with little bird houses to decorate at home, personalised fairy dust jars, and of course, their fairy costumes. Magical indeed! For more details see Kate’s Blog.