Another take on owls!

Recently, I worked on a custom invitation for a pink/brown owl themed 1st birthday. This is one of the options I created for the order. It combined two of my loves—owls & polka dots!  You can personalize yours HERE!

More Cute Owls & Summer Savings!

How cute are these? I want some for me, but somehow, I don't think my sons would want to carry these in to school this year... You can find them HERE though!

It's been awhile since I have posted--summer with the kids home has been busy, and I have been trying to soak up as much time with the boys while they are home as possible. ♥ I do have more new products to share with you soon, and I have a little giveaway planned as well...

This week has been super HOT around here. I missed posting a coupon code to celebrate the Fourth, so I have one for you now. Use the code "sizzle" (no quotation marks) for the rest of July to save 10% on any order over $15.

Pink & Brown Baby Shower Feature

Bet you couldn't guess I love the pink & brown color combination? I am not the only one though! It is the most popular choice from my customers for baby stationery, and the top choice for girl birthday invitation as well. Today, I would like to share some brilliant ideas for incorporating one of my favorite color combinations into a baby shower celebration.

This party feature is courtesty of the ridiculously talented Kara from Kara's Party Ideas:

i had A LOT of fun planning this shower for my sister in law. lanterns, cupcakes, party favors, mini candy bars, balloons, pink & brown..so cute. here's a closer look at the diaper cake i made. i used newborn and size 1 diapers & tied brown & pink polka dot ribbon around each of the four tiers to hold the diapers together...i also tied a sheer pink ribbon on top of the brown ribbon & added a pink bow on top of each brown bow. i used pink paper grass as frosting :), and put the whole thing on a pizza pan for easy carrying.


the little booties i put on top of the cake were adorable. you can also see the stickers that i put in the center of each bow (i also used the stickers for the party favors)...


jessica loves penguins so i made these penguin cupcakes. the liners were brown with white polka dots (they matched the candy bars and the party favors etc). the penguins are made out of keebler chocolate lovers cookies, tic tacs, and bubble gum tape (cut into triangles for the beaks). i also stuck heart pics (which also matched the theme) into each cupcake...


i found some cute little candy bar wrappers (martha stewart collection) that i wrapped around mini candy bars...they tied everything together...

i froze small plastic babies in ice cubes. we played a game where everyone had to 'break the water' & 'deliver' their baby. first to do it won the prize...

these party favors were actually bought in the wedding shower section (along with the candy bar wrappers above). they matched the pink and brown theme so well though that i just had to use them :). i changed them a bit & they worked great! i found little polka dot baby tags that i tied onto each one with some pink ribbon. each little bag also had velcro that attached the pink heart to the bag to shut it...


i put a small round tin filled with pink & white mints in each little bag. i found some cute 'it's a girl' stickers that i put on the front of the tins...



You can find a variety of invitation & thank you options on the website to tie in with this theme.
Here are a few invitations that I love in the pink & brown theme:




Thanks so much to Kara for allowing me to share her ideas with you! I have more parties to share in the works. In the meantime, visit her blog for more inspiration!

Pinkalicious Themed Birthday Party

I am working on a new feature for my website to aid customers in their party planning! I will be adding resources from a variety of sources as a wealth of ideas for your themed-event. Very excited about this, as its been in the works for quite some time, but taking a lot of time to get underway.

This first idea comes to you courtesy of Jadi from the Homemaking Fun blog! I am so thrilled to be able to include this, as her party centers around one of my middle son's favorite books, Pinkalicious (yes you read that right!) This theme has been gaining popularity and I have previously featured an invitation for this theme on my blog. The book is adorable---and you should also check out Purplicious & Goldicious by the same authors.

Read on to see Jadi's great ideas for hosting a Pinkalicious themed party...



I was inspired by this book. I love the color pink and thought it would be fun to host a pink themed play date for my daughter and her friends. I started out by reading this book to the girls.



After I read the book the girls made necklaces out of pink beads and then colored pinkalicous pictures that I printed from Elizabeth Kann's website. Click HERE to go to her site to print the pictures and get other pinkalicious activity ideas. I also made pink play dough that I sent home with the girls. Click HERE for my favorite play dough recipe.



For the refreshments I served pink cupcakes, pink frosted sugar cookies, pink wafer cookies, pink whopper candies and pink lemonade. I also added some grapes and strawberries to have something healthy. :)



Here is a close up of the refreshments.



I hot glued paper cups to the bottom of paper plates to make pink serving platters for the refreshments. I saw this idea in a Martha Stewart magazine for kids parties. They suggested putting a big rock or something heavy inside of the cups to help keep the platters balanced.



I hung lots of balloons from the ceiling and tied white tulle to the tops of them for the decorations.




A picture of the guests dressed in pink.



The guests took home a pink bag with pink treats and a container of pink play dough.



And of course, Cutie Pies Custom Creations has adorable stationery to complete your Pinkalicious party ;) Invite your guests to your Pinkalicious themed party with THIS adorable invitation!



And this sweet cupcake folded card makes the perfect thank you to compliment this party theme.



If you have any additional ideas to add, or would like to share your party in one of our features, leave a comment below or email me! Once again, thanks to Jadi for permitting me to include her party ideas for Pinkalicious! Visit her blog for tons of other party/celebration & general kids/family ideas. Stay tuned for more wonderful party ideas.

Custom Punk Rock Baby Shower Invitation

I had a lot of fun creating this custom baby shower invitation. The customer wanted a punk rock theme & I love how this came together!

First Birthday Invitation... Custom Photo Cards & Stationery

This is one of my favorites! A lot of people like to show how their child has grown over the first year, and this design allows for a picture from each month of their first 12 months. The colors may also be altered.

Baby Shower Invitation

I have really been trying to keep the blog updated more often, but these last few weeks of end of the year activities for the boys' schools have been so hectic, I feel like my head has been spinning in circles! Between school events, baseball, and working to the house re-organized in preparation for all 3 of them being home full time again, I have not had much time for anything, let alone posting on the blog.

I also have not spent time all month working on new designs, so I am anxious to get some new things up on the website! In the meantime, I am posting a recent baby shower invitation addition that I happen to love. Also available in blue/brown for boys!



Summer always seems to bring lots of babies, so keep www.cutiepiescustomcreations.com in mind if you have a baby event on the horizon, whether it be a shower, birth announcement, baptism invitation, etc.

Former Bachelorette Trista Sutter loves our notepads!

I have not watched the Bachelor/ette series in a few years, but I will admit I never missed a week of the first Bachelorette featuring Trista & her future husband Ryan. I was pregnant with my oldest son at the time, and was rooting wholeheartedly for Ryan---and my mother in law, and a few of my close friends were as well, but we were all convinced she was going to pick the other guy. Anyway, having been a "fan" of the show, I was very excited when I was contacted by one of Trista's friends about favors for her pink-themed baby shower! Trista's guests each received a great bag of goodies, and OK! magazine even raffled off bags to 2 lucky readers who received duplicate bags.



Here is what Trista had to say about her monogram notepads "...{My guests} loved their gift bags! The notepads from Cutie Pies were adorable, thank you! Obviously, I love mine!"

Thank you, Trista, for sharing this photo with us, and Congratulations to you, Ryan, and Max on the new addition to your family!

Pinkalicious Birthday Invitation Design

Have to share this super cute custom birthday invitation I just completed. My middle son Cooper LOVES the book Pinkalicious (Victoria & Elizabeth Kann)and so I was very excited about working on an invitation designed around this book for the theme! (The book is SUPER CUTE, as is the newer Purplicious by the same authors). Such a fun party idea.