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<\/a><\/p>\nOh, winter – how we love you.\u00a0 Winter parties can be so much fun but this year we wanted to introduce a new take on the traditional silver\/blue\/white color scheme.\u00a0 This year, we were inspired to create a versatile winter theme that could be used for both winter birthday parties or holiday parties. Our recent Winter Wonderland Printable Party Collection<\/a><\/strong> with fresh tones of aquas, mint, light blue with pops of red.<\/strong> \u00a0This would be perfect for a holiday party or even as a winter birthday party in January or February for boys or girls! It would even be cute for a winter baby shower!.<\/p>\n You may have first seen this featured over at Sweet Designs by Amy Atlas<\/a>, and we also recently shared this party over at HWTM.\u00a0<\/a> We are excited to share all of the gorgeous photos from the event here…. Thanks to Becca Bond Photography<\/a>.<\/p>\n Make sure you keep an eye out for our favorite details: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The inspiration for the table came to us while imagining a beautiful wintery day (I grew up in Michigan and Adria grew up in Ohio). \u00a0We would look out our windows and love to watch the snow fall and get piled up on the window sill. \u00a0Instantly we knew we had to use antique windows as the backdrop. \u00a0We found these at an antique shop for under $10 and spray painted them blue and aqua tones from our collection.<\/p>\n We took fallen tree branches and painted them with a high gloss white spray paint and potted them in white pots.\u00a0 These were used as anchors for the sides of the table.\u00a0 Painted metal address numbers were painted and hung from the front of each tree pot. \u00a0The little girl was turning 6, so this was a way to add her age into the decor. \u00a0We hand sewed birds to hang from these branches. \u00a0We also hung small snowflake sugar cookies (from Firefly Confections<\/a><\/strong>) from the branches as well.<\/p>\n Whitewashed 4\u00d74 logs were used to add height to the back of the table. \u00a0We also used whitewashed slices of logs to prop up the vases holding the tree branches.<\/p>\n To make the scene a little more rustic, we used old book pages to create hand cut snowflakes of various sizes. \u00a0German Glass glitter was used to add sparkle around the edges and the centers of each snowflake and really made the snowflakes sparkle. These were placed on the banner, as well as on the window backdrop.<\/p>\n The Winter Wonderland Printables were used throughout the scene.\u00a0 We printed on both photo paper and glossy label paper from Onlinelabels.com.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n We love snow globes and so we created a unique edible favor that was a stacked meringue tree snow globe. \u00a0We stacked 3 meringues together (ombre shades of green and mint) and used white chocolate to stick them together. \u00a0We placed them in an upside down mason jar with a dusting of powdered sugar and sat them on top a bed of shredded coconut. \u00a0The jars were embellished with a printable bird silhouette.<\/p>\n The table also held long vessels filled with white sixlets and snowflake cookie pops that were embellished with a printable party flag.<\/p>\n Mint chocolate martinis (non-alcoholic for the kiddos) were displayed with a peppermint swizzle stick and printable bird silhouette on the rim. \u00a0The rim was first dipped in white chocolate and then dipped in sanding sugar to look like snow or ice. \u00a0These sat on a glittered aqua snowflake coaster made from a wooden ornament.<\/p>\n Instead of hot cocoa, we made chocolate mousse and displayed those in glass mugs with the red silhouette bird embellishment. \u00a0A little woodland mushroom candy was placed on the edge with a toothpick. \u00a0These also sat on a glittered aqua snowflake coaster made from a wooden ornament.<\/p>\n Cupcakes were displayed on a serving platter lined with coconut and painted pine cones.\u00a0 We topped them with ruffle matted printable party logos from our Winter Wonderland Collection.<\/p>\n The cake was a $10 white cake from Target and we embellished it with a printable \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d topper and chocolate drawn trees.\u00a0 We saw this done on Pinterest with chocolate and did our own version with colored chocolates to match the aqua and mint tones.<\/p>\n A printable \u201cWonderland\u201d Banner from our collection<\/strong> hung from the front of the buffet and included german glass glittered book page snowflakes. \u00a0The book page snowflakes also embellished the antique windows that were stacked as the backdrop.<\/p>\n Best of all, Adria\u2019s daughter and my son were able to be part of the shoot. \u00a0They had so much fun!\u00a0 B Belle Couture<\/a><\/strong> provided the precious dress and tie.\u00a0 The hair accessory was from Drop of Honey Bowtique<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The \u201cWinter Wonderland\u201d Printable Collection and invitation is available in the Anders Ruff shop<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n ***** \u2013 Concept, Styling and Production: Anders Ruff<\/a><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Meringue pine tree snow globe favors (in mason jars with twine trim)
\n\u2013 German glass glittered snowflakes (out of antique book pages!<\/em>)
\n\u2013 \u201cChocolate Snow\u201d rimmed mint martinis with a red bird and peppermint garnish
\n\u2013 Spray painted white tree branches with hanging snowflake cookies and hand sewn birds<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nDECOR<\/h3>\n
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\n\u2013 Professional Photography: Becca Bond Photography<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u2013 Printable Graphics: Anders Ruff Shop<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u2013 Sugar Cookies: Firefly Confections<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u2013 Custom Dress and Tie: B Belle Couture<\/a><\/strong>
\n\u2013 Hair Accessory: Drop of Honey Bowtique<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n