{"id":17,"date":"2010-03-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-07-25T03:49:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T03:49:48","slug":"jeffreys-3rd-birthday-a-sport-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/parties\/birthday-parties\/jeffreys-3rd-birthday-a-sport-theme\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey’s 3rd Birthday – A Sport Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"

We went for an all sports themed party for Jeffrey’s 3rd Birthday back in 2008. I didn’t take as many pictures as I wish I would have! (oh the things I have learned in the past 2 years!)<\/p>\n

At our shop<\/a>, we just came out with a sports themed party invitation that we think is different than the rest!<\/p>\n

Below are a few samples of the style. You pick your motif\/sport icon, decide if you want a photo or not, and choose any colors you want and we create a custom invitation to match your theme!<\/p>\n

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Basketball sample:<\/p>\n

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Soccer:
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Football:
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SO many options!
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A client sample:<\/p>\n

Here is a sample of a client’s entire design for her son’s football party:
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We also do custom logos, if you have seen in our previous blog entries. Here is a sample of what we did for this client’s address logo:<\/p>\n

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\nWe also had a custom request for luggage tags that the client could use for her favor tags. We came up with boy and girl versions for her son’s “football” themed party.<\/p>\n

Here is the girl version (cheerleader!)
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and the boy version:
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We sell custom luggage tag designs at our shop<\/a>. You choose the theme, we do the design and customize with your guest’s names\/ mom phone numbers.<\/p>\n

Its so easy to create a nice looking luggage tag. Here are the steps:<\/p>\n

1) Order your design at our shop<\/p>\n

2) Send us your customization info (names\/#s) and theme request.<\/p>\n

3) We put together a proof for you to review and request changes.<\/p>\n

4) You get the high resolution file and can print at home or at a local printer (Kinko’s, etc)<\/p>\n

5) Cut out the luggage tags and laminate! Kinko’s sells laminating paper for around $1.99 for a sheet that is 8.5×14 (which would fit about 8 luggage tags!)<\/p>\n

6) Punch the hole and you are done! Strap it onto a cute cookie or favor and the guests will be sure to rave about them!<\/p>\n

Its a GREEN way to use a personalized tag on a favor – and everyone can always use luggage tags for bags, backpacks, lunch boxes, etc!<\/p>\n

Back to the party:<\/p>\n

Jeffrey’s sport party was a HIT! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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Start with the sweet stuff . . . The fun cakes that I made. 4 Cakes! (Golf ball is not shown here)<\/p>\n

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Here is the table with the “goodies”. I made baseball, tennis ball and basketball shaped cookies and cupcakes. Then I made a golf ball, tennis ball, basketball and tennis ball cake . . . all positioned on a football field table cloth. We had plates that were baseballs and footballs.<\/p>\n

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We had popcorn (like at a ball game!) and served hotdogs in those cute red\/white striped trays. I had pennants all over (here it says “Jeffrey is 3”)<\/p>\n

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This was a HOT day.<\/p>\n

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Outside tables (It was SUPER hot out there!) The bouncy house got hot to the touch and the kiddies couldn’t even play on it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We had the baseball pinata (which was a HIT, no pun intended) under the tent. The kids LOVED it!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Jeffrey takes a hit!<\/p>\n

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The kids were so hot, the fruit cups were a great way to cool off!<\/p>\n

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Favors are my favorite part of the party planning!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We had Velcro ball mitts for the boys and whiffle ball\/baseball bats for the girls!<\/p>\n

This would have been a great place to use our party luggage tags for the favors! Also, use a party logo to top the bag of cookies off!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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I didn’t forget the “sweet spot” ending . . . cookies for everyone (Packaging says “good game!”) and Big League chew for the adults!<\/p>\n

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We had Duke and U of Michigan pennants, too! Supporting J and my alma maters!<\/p>\n

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The colors worked out well – blue and yellow for Michigan (my alma mater!) and blue and white for J (Duke alma mater!). The blue wasn’t as dark as I would have liked, but oh well! I learn something new with each party!<\/p>\n

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I had signs all over (not pictured – why didn’t I take more pics!?) – the front door said “batter up!”, the back door headed inside said “time out” . . . and lots of others! So fun!<\/p>\n

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Overall, his party was a HIT!<\/p>\n

Pierson was sleeping the WHOLE party . . . poor guy wasn’t even in our family photo!<\/p>\n

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We went for an all sports themed party for Jeffrey’s 3rd Birthday back in 2008. I didn’t take as many pictures as I wish I would have! (oh the things I have learned in the past 2 years!) At our shop, we just came out with a sports themed party invitation that we think is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,58,31,209],"tags":[43,358,357],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthday-parties","category-decorations","category-diy","category-parties","tag-baseball","tag-basketball","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}