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{FREEBIE FRIDAY} Valentine's Day Candy Bar Wrappers

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{Prescription for Love} Bridal Shower

{Prescription for Love} Bridal Shower

I was asked to design a prescription pad invitation for a bridal shower along with a custom logo design to be used on the bride to be's stationery. After designing the invitation and receiving many requests for it, I took it a step further and designed an entire printable set. For this shower I chose to use colors of turquoise, hot pink, pink, white and orange. Since I work in the medical field it was fun and easy do this shower theme.

The prescription pad invitation is enclosed inside of a metallic petal card, tied with a ribbon using the David's Bridal ribbon tying method, embellished with pink and silver rhinestones from Michael's Craft Store

The inspiration this shower was quite simple and that was to combine wedding and medical together.

When I am doing a party set up I love for all of the stationery to have the same design, you will see that as you go through the set up of the table.

Of course you can't have a medical themed shower with out your "Happy Pills". I use screw top containers and added pearlescent sixlets from Party City.

Custom Wine Glasses are so popular now and these adorable bridal gown glasses make great party favors. You can order them from Vinyl Eloquence along with your wedding info on them or each guests name or initial and they can take them home after the shower is over.

A cupcake a day keeps the doctor away! I jazzed up some Walmart cupcakes by using custom made acrylic cupcake toppers from Ten23 Designs and also a set from my printable collection.

Let's not forget about the "Sterile Utensils' when serving your guests. These bling spoons, forks and knives are one of our signature bling items and make a item to use if you want to add some "Bling" to your candy buffets or tablescape.

Who doesn't like cookies? These adorable Hearts with stethoscopes and pill cookies were made by Creating Awesomenessity and complimented the theme just perfectly.

Who says you can't have your own wine? As a Novelty item only, we love to personalize our wine bottle labels to match them theme of the even. The name of this wine is "Marry Me Moscato". After all this is a bridal shower right? When choosing a wine I chose Moscato because the top of the wine was orange and perfectly matched the colors of the event.

Ring pops inside of a crystal ring box was a great way to display your candy ring jewelry.

Where did she get that?

Vendors

Styling- Talia's Creative Printing www.taliasprinting.com

Photography-Leanna DeFelice http://bleuanchorphotograph.wix.com/photo

Printables (Invitation, Signage, Labels, paper cupcake toppers)-Talia's Creative Printing www.taliasprinting.com

Arcylic Cupcake Toppers-Ten23 Designs www.ten23designs.com/

Acrylic cupcake stand, rosette table runners, tablecloths- Efavormart www.Efavormart.com

Custom Wine Glasses-Vinyl Eloquence www.vinyleloquence.etsy.com

Custom heart and medication cookies- Creating Awesomenessity www.etsy.com/shop/CreateAwesomenessity

Glitter Cupcake wrappers-Koyal Wholesale www.koyalwholesale.com

Custom Prescription Logo-Victoria Peach Designs www.victoriapeachdesigns.com

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Reasons To Set Goals

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So as an event planner and stationery designer one of my goals this year was to be featured on a major blog. This idea popped into my head once I became apart of a group of event planners and event industry professionals. I followed major event planning blogs but never thought that I could submit my items to be featured until recently this year. I studied their blogs, websites and parties looking at their style of parties, the photography and the content.

My mom and I had a Parisian Burlesque Milestone Birthday Bash. After receiving my photos from my photographer I felt they were good enough to be featured on some blogs and websites. I asked some of the ladies in the group which blogs did event features and in minutes collected a list of them, some of which were members of the group I am in.

My Goal was to spread the word about my fantastic party across event planning blogs. I began submitting my party for features. In a matter of a few days I had a few blogs willing to feature my party. My main goal was to have my party featured on The Hostess with the Mostess blog so of course I submitted to her.

I received this response back from them:

Thank you so much for your submission to HWTM. While we’d genuinely love to be able to feature everyone’s events on the blog, we simply are unable to accommodate all of them due to space and volume (we receive hundreds of submissions each week). We will not be able to feature this particular event, but please know that this does not mean we didn't like it or take it as a negative reflection on your submission in any way. It is most likely due to one of the following reasons:

– We’ve already featured or committed to featuring several other parties in the same category or with a similar look/theme.

– The event is not relevant for the time of year.

– There are just too many parties in the current pipeline right now, plain and simple.

SHARING ON HWTM.COM

I was heart broken! What was it about my party that they wouldn't feature it? Was it the theme? was it the photography? What was it? I felt a little discouraged so i tried again when they were looking for "Grown Up" Party Idea submissions and again I received the above response. Very heart broken I didn't give up. I submitted it for the 3rd time and guess what I received back? Yep you guessed it, the same response above. :(

Ok, I don't know why I took it so bad, I am sure there are plenty of people who are submitting their parties for features so I sought out other ways to have other items of mine featured.

I met a lady whom writes for the Hostess With the Mostess and I worked with her and guess what?????? I finally made it on their blog not once but 3 times in 1 month!

I created these really cute Bling Candy Buffet Supplies and she used them in her displays. I was amazed at how wonderful they looked on her table. I read the comments on some of the blog posts and people just raved about them.

So far I have had orders from Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom.

So what happened with my Parisian Burlesque Party? It still hasn't been featured on The Hostess with the Mostess but it has been featured on a few other blogs. I won't give up.

I write this post to say that it's important to have goals, they give you something to work toward. Set your goal(s) and measure your progress and if you aren't getting or haven't received the results you want then alter your goal. It's perfectly fine to alter your goals. See above, my goal was to have my party featured and I ended up having something else featured 3 times in the same month. You may not end with what you started with but at least you started. I thank you for taking the time to read this post. Feel free to comment below.

By the way here are the blog posts and photos of my items that were featured.